They came together just two months ago. Then it was a family wedding. On this day it was centre stage at Toronto Mela Summer Festival held at Scarborough Town Centre. The informal Bollywood dance troupe Suriyakumar and her cousins formed were part of an event hosted by Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA) on Sept. 7.
The weather put a damper on festivities at Scarborough Town Centre, but it was far from a complete washout. Attendance was down at this year’s Toronto Mela Summer Festival, which took place on a rainy Sept. 7. The 2012 event drew 2,000 people, almost double the 1,200 who braved the rain this year.
Voters painted Scarborough red again on Oct. 6, with all six ridings remaining in Liberal hands. Scarborough-Guildwood was expected to be a tight race between MPP Maragrett Best and PC candidate Gary Elis, a former police superintendent in 42 and 43 Divisions. The results, though, told a different story.
Applause and cheers erupted from the crowd at Liberal candidate Bas Balkissoon’s campaign office last night when it was announced he was re-elected as the MPP for provincial riding Scarborough Rouge River.
For the third provincial election in a row, Scarborough Rouge-River is red territory. Liberal MPP Bas Balkissoon won the riding with a total of 12,032 votes, good for 41.22 per cent of the ballots cast.
Bas Balkissoon of the Liberal Party is reelected in Scarborough-Rouge River. NDP candidate Neethan Shan sits in second.
Shining a spotlight on injustice, a sea of yellow t-shirts flooded Thompson Memorial Park as hundreds of Tamil Canadians walked in the third annual CTC (Canadian Tamil Congress) walk-a-thon on Sept. 18.
It may be just another budget meeting, but at least this time residents got to tell city council what they thought. At the Jan. 20 meeting at the Scarborough Civic Centre, residents complained about bus route cuts but also brought up major service cuts throughout the budget.
You have to wonder how young voters made their ballot decisions on Oct. 25.
Candidates need to use interesting, non-traditional ways to advertise to resonate better with today’s youth. Here’s a thought: politicians could try getting their point across by showing up at a local Tim Hortons and buying every eligible young voter’s coffee — they just need to remember to send out a Facebook invite first.
There were tears, hugs, handshakes and big smiles at Ward 42 candidate Neethan Shan’s election HQ Monday night. Shan took second place behind 19-year incumbent councillor Raymond Cho.