York University student Kareem James, knew once he reached university his workload would get heavier. However, at 21, he feels that high school didn’t prepare him for the next level of education. The TDSB proposal (accepted on April 14) for no homework on holidays and weekends has caused quite a stir among parents, teachers and [...]
Environmental advocates believe that allowing Ontarians to hang their clothes outside will work in saving electricity. In a bid to encourage Ontarians to quit using their dryers, the McGuinty government recently announced new regulations that no longer ban clotheslines from being hung in subdivisions.
Damien Daly used to speed along Hwy. 401. He would weave his car through traffic switching gears as he accelerated. The rush excited him and he felt invincible. “Movies like The Fast and the Furious got me started,” he said. “Being able to push cars to their limits and having my adrenaline rush increase as [...]
Emergency Room patients are not the only ones plagued by delays in Toronto hospitals. Scarborough resident Stryder Strassburger now fears for his life because of delayed response times by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers. Suffering from asthma attacks all his life, Strassburger is no stranger to the emergency room. Last week, his friends waited anxiously [...]
Audette Shephard was at home one night in August 2001 when her son, Justin, came to her room to tell her that he was going out and would be back in 10 minutes. When he hadn’t shown up within an hour, she began calling all of his friends to see if he had gone to [...]
It may be raining cats and dogs in one north Toronto neighbourhood, but the downpour could soon spread across the city. On April 14, the Toronto Humane Society held the grand opening of its first-ever satellite location in a storefront location on Victoria Park Avenue in North York. The shelter will house about 40 cats [...]
The phone rings and Joey begins to whimper quietly. “He’s fine, but he really doesn’t like long-distance calls. So hopefully no one from far away phones,” Anne Sayers said. He dislikes long-distance calls because the ringing lasts for such a long time. About two seconds later there is a long-distance call and Joey begins to [...]
With climate change being a major problem many people want to do what they can to become more environmentally friendly. One concern is that too many emissions are being used to transport food from place to place. The solution to the problem can be summed up by the Oxford American dictionary 2007 word of the [...]
The Ontario government put the cherry on top of the Earth Day cake, with new legislation regulating the use of pesticides across the province. On April 22 Environment Minister John Gerretsen proposed the Cosmetic Pesticide Ban Act. The legislation provides universal guidelines clarifying the current format of individual municipal bylaws pertaining to pesticide use.
Once you put your key in the ignition, you are losing money. This is the consensus of many taxi drivers who are involved in the fight to raise fares. Taxi drivers in Toronto are having a harder time making a living because of the rising gasoline prices and plan to bring this issue to the [...]
