Observer reporter Leslie Marciniak was outside Roy Thomson Hall Aug. 27 as mourners gathered for the state funeral of NDP Leader Jack Layton. Later, Marciniak visited the chalk memorial to Layton at Nathan Phillips Square.
A flotilla of small boats and an army of movie lovers descended on the waterfront at Sugar Beach this weekend to help mark the 100th anniversary of the Toronto Port Authority (TPA). Sail-In Cinema, billed as the first floating movie theatre of its kind in North America, featured three nautical-themed movies shown on a 28-foot double-sided screen.
Jack Layton, leader of Canada's official Opposition and Toronto-Danforth MP, has died. He was 61.
The busy stretch of Bloor Street West from Shaw Street to Dovercourt Road was transformed into a pedestrian-only piazza Saturday. The first annual Bloorcourt Arts and Crafts Street Fair, organized by the Bloorcourt Business Improvement Area, took the street over from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and featured shopping, live entertainment and fun for kids.
A gas shortage in the GTA has some motorists feeling a bit nervous about topping up their tanks. "I don’t know what I would do if I was on empty and I went to a gas station that wasn’t able to provide me gas," said Toronto resident Lindsey Kemp.
For many, Toronto’s annual Taste of the Danforth means scouting the stretch between Broadview and Jones avenues in pursuit of mouth-watering souvlaki or baklava. But for Windsor, Ont., native Ryan Michael James Parent, the festival is about getting back in touch with his roots.
Stephen Dolphin would be travelling on foot or hoping on and off the TTC the rest of the summer if it wasn't for a free bike clinic near his east-end home. The 17-year-old says he's grateful to the mechanics who fixed his bike at no cost at Main Square, the Danforth Avenue apartment complex where he lives with his parents.
