March 21st, 2014 Shawn Star Town Crier A community meeting has been set for April 15 to consider a proposal to build two apartment buildings near Yonge and Eglinton. The proposal, brought to the city by Shiplake Management Company, outlines plans to construct 28-storey and 26-storey highrises on land bounded by Dunfield Avenue to [...]
March 19th, 2014 Eric Emin Wood Town Crier MOVING FORWARD: Food truck owner Zane Caplansky says he is thrilled by recommendation that moves food trucks closer to reality on street corners such as Yonge and Eglinton. Caplansky’s deli owner Zane Caplansky could soon be parking his food truck north of Yonge and Eglinton [...]
March 5th, 2014 Jessica McDiarmid Toronto Star More and more oil, some of it highly flammable crude from North Dakota’s Bakken region, is trundling on rail lines through the heart of Toronto in aged tank cars widely recognized as substandard. Oil shipments by rail have increased dramatically in Canada over the past [...]
March 4th, 2014 Shawn Star Town Crier Acting on a motion by two midtown councillors, the city is asking the province to look at ways to control rent increases and prevent landlords from raising rents above the guidelines set by the province each year. The motion, moved by Josh Matlow and seconded [...]
February 28th, 2014 Natalie Johnson CTV News As new condos continue to pop up all over Toronto, a new report finds that a large number of buildings across the city have been left uninspected by city officials. A recent Auditor General’s report finds that the City of Toronto failed to inspect [...]
February 28th, 2014 Rahul Gupta Inside Toronto Construction for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT project is headed east of Allen Road. Work on the 19-kilometre route traveling under-and-along Eglinton Avenue from Black Creek Drive to Kennedy Station has progressed without interruption since west tunnel excavation began last spring. This year, the work moves [...]
February 28th, 2014 Paul Moloney Toronto Star Toronto’s buildings division must do a better job of ensuring contractors fix unsafe conditions, the city’s auditor general says. An audit found that 3,735 building code violations were languishing on the division’s books, including 2,103 cases of building without a permit and 180 orders to [...]
February 28th, 2014 Michael Talbot City News Midtown Toronto residents are fearful that a disaster similar to the one that levelled Lac-Mégantic in rural Quebec could happen here, after learning that some of the CP Rail freight trains rumbling past their homes on a daily basis are carrying crude oil. The rail line [...]
February 28th, 2014 Don Peat Toronto Sun TORONTO – Councillors travelling on the taxpayers’ dime could soon have to prove they didn’t skip out to see the sights. Councillor Josh Matlow got the audit committee to unanimously agree Friday to demand councillors who go to an out-of-province conference provide proof of attendance. [...]
February 23rd, 2014 Shawn Star Town Crier CURBING EROSION: Design guidelines for Forest Hill Village would ensure all future developments in the area are in keeping with the look of the neighbourhood. Councillor Josh Matlow is on a mission to protect Forest Hill Village and to ensure it doesn’t become a distant memory. [...]
