Archive | November, 2006

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Toronto Public Health says sneeze into your sleeve

With the cold and flu season upon us once more, Toronto Public Health wants Torontonians to forget about using their bare hands and sneeze with their sleeve. A new campaign entitled, ‘Do the Sleeve Sneeze’, asks people to forget a common courtesy practiced from an early age. Toronto Public Health says covering your mouth when [...]


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Business is booming at the food bank, unfortunately

Although Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank failed to reach its goal of 900,000 pounds of food for its recent fall food drive, there’s a bigger issue facing Daily Bread and those who survive because of it. What is really worrisome, according to Daily Bread’s executive director Gayle Nyberg, is the ever increasing role the food [...]


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Toronto landmark set for a new look

Nathan Phillips Square is receiving a facelift thanks to an open international design competition. The competition, which was approved by City Hall in December, 2005, seeks submissions from not only architects, but also landscape architects, planners and engineers from all over the world. There are two stages to the revitalization project; the first is a [...]