Police fanned out across Toronto Sunday to conduct one the largest RIDE blitzes in the city’s history. Despite the show of force only seven cars where towed and three arrests made; last year nine persons were arrested for drunk driving.
With a growing membership of over 200 people, Grace Church Presbyterian is awaiting government approval to expand, said Rev. Evertt Briard, an interim moderator.
Pens and pencils fly across the pages as the students concentrate on their work. The room is quiet until the teacher announces, “OK, let’s share.” It sounds like a typical classroom, but it is not. On this Tuesday morning, Lauren Kirshner leads 10 women through creative writing classes at the Sistering drop-in centre in the west-end neighbourhood of Parkdale.
The only thing missing from Cathy Crowe’s victory party was the victory. In Thursday’s Toronto-Centre provincial by-election Crowe, a well known street nurse and star candidate for the NDP, earned 8,685 votes (31 per cent), nearly doubling the party’s previous performance in the riding but not enough to claim the Liberal stronghold.
CEO of Habitat for Humanity Toronto, Neil Hetherington, believes that the new building project at 4275 Kingston Rd. will have a positive impact on the community.
The Ontario Labour Relations Board has voted in favour of allowing faculty members at Ontario’s 24 community colleges to vote on the colleges’ most recent offer on Feb. 10. This will extend the strike deadline, once more, from Feb. 11 to Feb. 17.
Bay Street law firm Heenan-Blaikie will be offering free legal advice for Kingston- Galloway and Orton Park residents.
A controversial proposal to legalize rooming houses across Toronto has Scarborough city councillors facing off against their downtown counterparts.
Cinram International Income Fund stocks plummeted Monday after word that Warner Home Videos is pulling out of its exclusive contract with the CD and DVD manufacturer in favour of a French competitor.
The scene today: a quiet suburban neighbourhood in Rouge Hill. Houses line the streets, blue recycling bins neatly waiting by the curb, lawns tidy and free of any toys or clutter. But it isn’t always this way.