The Toronto Observer

Even though the Pan Am Games aren’t for another three years, the Scarborough community is already uncertain of the impact the event will have on the area.

Scarborough will soon be getting its new sports facility for the city’s Pan Am games in 2015. The Aquatics Centre is set to be built near the Scarborough campus of the University of Toronto starting this summer.

Even though the new aquatic centre for the Pan Am games is in the early stages of construction, it has already proved to be a high conversation topic amongst community members.

As the sun rises over Toronto each morning, Khetag Pliev wakes up and starts his run. The 6:30 a.m. wake up is just the beginning to a long day for one of Canada’s brightest amateur stars. Pliev was one of 500 Canadian athletes who competed in last month’s Pan American Games, where he won the [...]

The new Instructional Centre at the University of Toronto Scarborough is about more than a new school building, the federal industry minister says. “This [centre] is part of a broader context, the broader context is the economy,” Tony Clement said.

Redevelopment on parts of Kingston Road should start next year despite questions about where the money will come from, first-year Ward 36 councillor Gary Crawford says.

Rob Ford is introducing no property tax increases or major service cuts as part of the 2011 Toronto budget. “It’s time to listen to the taxpayers of Toronto and do what’s right with their hard-earned money,”  Ford told the city’s budget committee meeting on Jan. 10. Residents of Scarborough can voice their concerns for the [...]

The prospect of electrifying the GO transit expansion is gaining steam. But to electrify just the airport rail link doesn’t make sense, says Karen Pitre, project director of a Metrolinx Electrification study.

According to Councillor Georgio Mammoliti, who sits on the Toronto Zoo’s board of management, several corporate sponsors have inquired about funding the initiative that will see a male panda named Er-Shun, and female panda, lent to Canada for up to 15 years starting in 2012.

Toronto’s 2015 Pan Am Games logo is meant to reflect people coming together. And bring people together it did. The logo was unveiled Sept. 29 outside the Air Canada Centre to great fanfare.