April 2 2013 Toronto Star David Rider and Jessica McDiarmid A confidential staff report going to city council Wednesday says Ottawa owes the city about $31 million in payments in lieu of property taxes on the island airport, covering 1999-2012. The report, according to a source who has read it, states the [...]
April 2013 Post City Magazines Bree Rody-Mantha After months of speculation, Freed Developments has finally submitted a formal proposal for its site currently occupied by furniture retailer Art Shoppe at 2131 Yonge St. The plan would see two mixed-use towers at 29 and 38 storeys with retail at grade. A rezoning application for [...]
April 3 2013 CP24 Chris Fox A motion to make councillor schedules and correspondence accessible through access to information requests is among several items on the agenda today as city council holds its monthly meeting. The motion from Coun. Paula Fletcher calls for the province to make all records of city councillors [...]
March 19 2013 Toronto Star Royson James You’ve heard it said — from the rabble-rousing bleeding hearts derided as professional activists — that Toronto’s homeless shelters are overflowing and spilling people onto the streets on cold nights. You’ve also heard it said — insistently from the mayor, no less — that there’s [...]
March 15 2013 Town Crier Eric Emin Wood Which would you rather have at a busy midtown intersection: a surface-area parking lot with 55 spaces, or a two-level retail building with underground parking for up to 90 cars? That’s what the Forest Hill Village BIA wants to know. Chair Peter McClelland [...]
March 14 2013 Town Crier Eric Emin Wood Robert Bateman’s wildlife paintings have been sold around the world. He’s mounted shows at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, St. Petersburg’s Russian State Museum and Washington D.C.’s Smithsonian Institution and was awarded the Order of Canada in 1983. Yet Toronto residents might be surprised to [...]
March 14 2013 Town Crier Eric Emin Wood A door leading to the Central Eglinton Community Centre’s second floor currently swings into the hall without warning. “Although it’s never happened, we’re afraid of bowling someone over,” says Paula Cornett, the centre’s executive director. To help address that concern, city council voted to give [...]
March 5 2012 PostCity Bree Rody-Mantha You may know it as “Young and Eligible” or you may shorten it to “Yonge and Eg,” but no matter what you call it, the intersection of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue has become a battleground for clashing ideals. The major midtown intersection has been a [...]
March 6 2013 Global News James Armstrong TORONTO – As city hall comes closer to debating the possibility of allowing a casino in Toronto, MGM Resorts International and Cadillac Fairview detailed their hypothetical plans for a huge luxury resort at Exhibition Place.The plan, which was revealed to the media Wednesday morning, includes three [...]
February 26 2013 Toronto Star Alex Ballingall City council, not Mayor Rob Ford will decide whether Toronto residents pay their fair share of a massive regional transit expansion expected to cost about $2 billion annually for the next 25 years. That was the response among some city councillors and transit experts on Thursday to concerns [...]
