The Toronto Observer

With a growing number of capital construction projects, infrastructure to maintain and new city investment, Toronto is going to continue to run a deficit in to 2009.

Former prime minister Paul Martin was in Toronto Tuesday night promoting his memoir, Hell or High Water – My Life In and Out of Politics. He talked about everything from the charter of rights and freedom to the recent economic crises. Martin was interviewed by Indigo CEO Heather Reisman, at the bookseller’s Bloor Street store. [...]

A recent European Union health report warns that high volume setting on personal music players could permanently damage one’s hearing. A team of nine experts, on the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks, concluded that over 10 million Europeans risk irreversible hearing loss due to music played at levels exceeding the recommended [...]

Dozens of people packed tightly in the front entrance of the Dufferin/St.Clair Branch of the Toronto Public Library on Tuesday. Avid readers waited patiently for the nearly 90-year-old library to reopen its doors to the community. It was closed for over a year and received a major $2.54 million overhaul in renovations. For some, the [...]

It’s thousands of kilometres and 91 years removed from the actual battlefield, but the sounds of “Passchendaele,” the movie, came from small town Ontario. Andy Malcolm calls himself a “foley artist.” Foley involves examining the raw film footage and using the props and equipment at his Uxbridge studio to reproduce many of the sounds of [...]

About 200 people sat down Thursday night to discuss the future of Toronto’s transportation system. Metrolinx, formerly the Greater Toronto Transit Authority, hosted the third in a series of seven public meetings on Thursday about its plan for the future of Greater Toronto’s transit system.

Are new immigrants voting Liberal for the wrong reasons? Canadian immigrants and the Liberal party have a long history of friendship, but given recent trends, their loyalty might be misplaced.

With less than a week to go until opening night, Heidi Michelle Thomas is starting to feel the crunch. Since getting the part of the mother, Rose, in Scarborough Village Theatre’s production of Gypsy (opening Oct. 30), the 33-year-old has immersed herself in the role. Now, curtain is near.

A Mother Teresa girls basketball player has been suspended for two games after a referee called their game against Etienne Brule with four minutes left, claiming he had been verbally threatened in a TDCAA senior girls’ basketball contest on Monday.

In 2006 Scarborough resident Taryn Welch-Joslyn caught the attention of her friends and family. At just 13 years of age, she was diagnosed with an eating disorder-anorexia nervosa. During her recovery period, she never would have imagined that two years later, one of her greatest wishes would come true.