Church land to be expropriated to extend Redlea Avenue
The City of Toronto is preparing to extend a road through the parking lot of one of Scarborough's largest churches in order to ease traffic congestion around Kennedy Road and Steeles Avenue.The first...
View ArticleRISE UP for basketball
Community RISE UP (Recreation Is Supposed to Enlighten and Unite People), a not-for-profit organization focused on developing positive interactions between east-end youth and the community in which...
View ArticleMain Square Madness Party set for July 14
A celebration of community spirit will take place Saturday, July 14 near Danforth Avenue and Main Street.The Main Square Madness Party will include a variety of activities for the family including bike...
View ArticleScarborough Village Summer Festival
The seventh annual Scarborough Village Summer Festival is set to take place on Saturday, July 14.The event will offer entertainment for all ages, multicultural activities and performances including...
View ArticleKingsway Ratepayers' group hosts fundraising picnic
The West Kingsway Ratepayers' Association (WKRA) will host a fundraising picnic at Fairfield Park next month. The event, which takes place on Saturday, July 28 from noon till 3 p.m., will feature a...
View ArticleToronto considers mandatory air conditioning rules for apartments
Toronto landlords could be made to provide air conditioning for their tenants in the face of heat waves, as Toronto Council voted to study ways to change the rules for heating and cooling...
View ArticleLippert School of Hard Rock performs at Whistler's Grille
At a performance on Friday, July 13, the Lippert School of Hard Rock will add a meaningful cause to their play list.Last week, local resident Rita Smith approached the school asking if a student could...
View ArticleWeston celebrates community art project along GO line
On the 200-foot-long hoarding put up along the GO Transit Georgetown South Project corridor, a new community art project was unveiled Saturday, July 7.More than 150 people were on hand to see The Big...
View ArticleCaribana Flags and Colours Festival parade on Saturday at Yorkgate Mall
The Caribana Arts Group will host the Caribana Flags and Colours Festival parade Saturday, July 14, at Yorkgate Mall.The festival at Jane Street and Finch Avenue is expected to attract 500...
View ArticleOBITUARY: Sister Imelda Cahill dies at 94
Sister Imelda Cahill spent 17 years as principal of former St. Joseph Catholic High School.Students of the former Dundas Street West all-girls' school in Islington remember her as tough, but fair....
View ArticleFirst seven members of CivicAction's regional transit council announced
TRANSIT - The Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance announced the first seven members of a council dedicated to kick starting a public conversation about transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
View ArticleChildren run screaming with delight into new Jaime Bell playground
BLOOR WEST - Held back behind yellow police tape, a crowd of children waited impatiently for a chance to climb the new castle and to go down the new slides.
View ArticleTransit thinking group formed to discuss options for regional system
Agnes Gee hates her commute.The Barrie resident spends upwards of four hours per day riding the GO bus to downtown Toronto, where she works. She'd rather drive, but the bus is her only affordable...
View ArticleConstruction company Metron Construction fined $200K in deaths of migrant...
A Toronto-based construction company was fined $200,000 Friday, July 13 in the death of four migrant workers in an Etobicoke scaffolding accident nearly three years ago.On Christmas Eve 2009, Alexander...
View ArticleTwo hundred kilometre bike ride to benefit students' bellies
PARKDALE - Last winter, Parkdale resident Kimberly Davidson was set to start soliciting for a big bike fundraiser for cancer when she had a big idea of her own.
View ArticleScarborough music teacher gets ovation from students
SCARBOROUGH - Kevin Hrycay hits the right notes with his students and their parents. They chimed in with 30,000 votes, placing the Scarborough music teacher in first place in a nation-wide teachers'...
View ArticleMongolian consul general for Ontario to operate from Scarborough office
SCARBOROUGH - Become lost in the Gobi Desert, and you will see what sort of people Mongolians are, says Dave Tsubouchi, a former provincial cabinet minister who this week was made Mongolia's first...
View ArticleCheck out the dancers on their Seaton Village porches
CITY CENTRE - A group of Seaton Village residents will show off both their community and their moves with an upcoming show created by local dancers and Kaeja d'Dance founders Karen and Allen Kaeja.
View ArticleRouge Park public input meeting Wednesday, July 17, in Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH - A Rouge National Urban Park will be the first of its kind, a national park but not subject to the same restrictions or rules.
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Parkdale tenants taking part in rent strike receive eviction notices:'Typical...
The tenants refused to pay rent following an application by Nuspor Investments for sanction to apply an increase above the provincially mandated annual rate of 1.6 per cent to help fund costly...
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