Four years ago, Jon Burnside came up just short in his bid to defeat long-time incumbent councillor John Parker in the Toronto municipal election. This fall, Burnside got his revenge. He surged past Parker Oct. 27, and became the only challenger to beat an incumbent.
Candidates for councillor in Trinity-Spadina — a whopping 22 of them — have their calendars marked for next Wednesday. The Rogers TV Ward 20 all-candidates debate is set for Sept. 24 at 2:30 p.m., and with so many voices competing to be heard, the debate promises to be interesting.
Jackhammering on Queen’s Quay and the faint humming of engines from the island airport rise above the morning street noise. Slowly, gridlocked traffic progresses toward the airport ferry terminal at the edge of Bathurst Quay. This congestion, Ward 20 council candidate Anshul Kapoor says, should not be allowed to get any worse.
From six to nine tonight the Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church will play host to a Metrolinx meeting on the contentious downtown relief line
The Canada Border Service Agency announced yesterday that they seized nine kilograms of heroin at Pearson Airport on March 25.
Protesters gather in Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square to protest Russian aggression in Crimea
Eugene and David La and working hard to put their lives back together after a fatal traffic accident.
Former American Peter Dunn wants Americans living in Canada to ask themselves an important question. “Am I really an American citizen?” Dunn, 50, has recently co-founded the Isaac Brock Society, a group raising awareness about the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Dunn settled permanently in Canada in 1994.
After two days of budget talks at City Hall, council approved a budget that includes a 2.23 per cent residential tax increase. But the 2014 capital and operating budgets, approved Jan. 30, also include a tax cut for many residents.
Toronto City Council has voted 32 to 13 to increase residential property taxes 2.23 per cent for 2014.