An environmentalist says rainwater harvesting could help Torontonians reduce their water consumption. Emily Alfred of Riversides, an organization that helps prevent watershed pollution, says Toronto uses most of its water for washing and cleaning. But…
A Toronto city councillor says that a move to revitalize the city’s public housing stock is long overdue. Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti, (Ward 7, York West) a director at Toronto Community Housing Board of Directors, says…
The project manager for a new campaign that would give all permanent residents the right to vote in municipal elections says it will take the community’s help for it to pass. Toronto boasts over 200,000…
A former diplomat has accused the Canadian government of not caring about the humanitarian crisis taking place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “All we care about is Afghanistan there’s no other part of…
When the City of Toronto decided to bulldoze a rockery just outside the East York Garden Club near the Stan Wadlow Community Centre, members of the club decided to save it.
After our long winters, there’s a certain amount of damage sustained by your lawn. But nursing your lawn back to health just takes a few easy steps.
A Toronto physician has made a connection between poor city air quality and the incidence of Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Murray Finkelstein, a family physician, at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital was instrumental in conducting a breakthrough…
Bill MacDougall knows all too well about the struggle to survive in a city that is becoming increasingly expensive to live in. “It seems to me there are a lot of people in this city…
The city of Toronto is looking at a plan that will allow it to be designated a tourism area. The plan was brought forth as a result of the Toronto Act that came into effect…