The Toronto Observer

When Diane Kelly watched the bobsleigh events at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, she asked herself why anyone would want to willingly hurl themselves down an ice chute in a metal go-cart.

Daniel Brassard sits quietly at the back of a meeting room at Toronto’s Church of the Redeemer on Bloor Street. He is listening intently to a panel discussion on the impact of Bill C-10 (the Federal government’s omnibus bill) that critics say gives carte blanche to police around the country to arrest and detain at [...]

Linguistic Larks for Nov. 4, 2011: Capital Cities. With the letters given, guess the horizontal clues. Work your way to the vertical clue. Unscramble the circled letters to form the final answer.

Walter Bick, co-founder of Bick’s Pickle died on Oct. 17, 2011 at the age of 94 after suffering a stroke two weeks prior. In the weeks before his death, he talked about his success stories with his children. The Bick’s pickle story is truly a story of great Canadian success.

Regressive. Out of touch. Anti-Toronto. These are only a few of the words Rob Ford’s critics use to describe the Toronto mayor. Scarborough residents seem to disagree.

As the Occupy Toronto protest enters its third week, some questions are being raised about the effect on the neighbourhood near the protest’s St. James Park campsite. Reverend Douglas Stoute, the Dean and Rector of St. James’ Cathedral, which sits within the occupied park, said the campers have actually been respectful of the grounds and the community.

She's an entrepreneur, a mother of two and a charity worker. She's also the first female driving instructor in the Greater Toronto Area. Today, Sarah Devi runs AAMCO Driving School, a business that has grown to include three branches in Scarborough.

Scarborough East councillor Paul Ainslie suggested the federal government foot the bill for Scarborough residents who are looking into removing their ash trees due to beetle infestation.

Police are looking for a group of males after a violent early morning robbery outside a tavern on Saturday. On Oct. 29 at about 2:10 a.m., the group surrounded three male victims outside the tavern near Victoria Park and Finch avenues, police say.

Despite local opposition to the city’s installation of a wind gauge offshore at the Scarborough bluffs, the anemometer will remain in Lake Ontario until fall of 2012. Responding to some of his constituents’ concerns, during a meeting of executive committee at Toronto city hall on Tuesday, Scarborough East Coun. Paul Ainslie had proposed to remove the device. However, Coun. David Shiner worried that removal of the device would waste more money.