Finally, a government payout that will actually help the people. After billions of dollars being doled out to automakers and giant corporations, with people still losing their jobs and perpetuating our downward economy, it’s nice to see initiatives aimed at directly helping the public. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Dalton McGuinty announced their governments [...]
Malvern Cricket Club is to hold its President’s Gala Saturday Feb 21 to honour members for their work in the club.
As readers are likely aware, the students of York University have finally returned to class, as what was truly a long, bitter winter has ended. Having personally known a few people affected, I have been led to reflect on our post-secondary education system here in Scarborough. Throughout the entire ordeal, I kept hearing about how [...]
Donald Carr was on hand at the Malvern public Library on Thursday, Feb. 12, to provide entertainment for the library’s Black History Month celebrations. Rows of school children gathered in the community room to come see Carr perform.
A Facebook group created last year to help find a missing University of Toronto Scarborough student has been taken down. Twenty-one year-old Abu-Ubaida Atieque is still missing after he was last seen leaving their home in the Neilson Road and Sheppard Avenue area on the morning of Nov. 18, 2008.
With the snow outside starting to melt, Scarborough’s many young hockey players are looking for something to keep them active and their skill levels high. For many the answer is lacrosse, made possible by The Scarborough Stars Lacrosse Association.
Toronto Police 43 Division held its third annual Family Skate Day on Feb. 13 at the Heron Park Arena. The event offered Scarborough families a chance for ice time with local community officers on the Family Day long weekend.
The James Cardinal McGuigan Breakfast Club dished out a helping of gratitude to the Toronto Budget Advisory Committee Wednesday afternoon. Three students and a youth worker from the North Toronto high school made the trek to City Hall in response to the newly minted budget that allocated increased funding to breakfast programs in schools across the city.
Toronto’s Winterlicious event is advertised to the public as a chance to experience some of the best restaurants in the city, but one critic argues that the continued expansion of the event is lowering quality. Winterlicious is held every year in Toronto during the month of February. It offers people the chance to experience a [...]
Braeden Wallace, 13, asks his eight-year-old sister Teaghan what she wants to be when she grows up. “I want to be an architect or a professional writer,” Teaghan said, “because that’s what Mommy wanted to be.”
