The publisher of this year’s Giller Prize winner said the book had a voice and a sense of fun in it. On Tuesday, Esi Edugyan’s, book Half-Blood Blues won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. With the accompanying prize of $50,000, Edugyan became the recipient of the largest annual literary prize in Canada.
Despite local opposition to the city’s installation of a wind gauge offshore at the Scarborough bluffs, the anemometer will remain in Lake Ontario until fall of 2012. Responding to some of his constituents’ concerns, during a meeting of executive committee at Toronto city hall on Tuesday, Scarborough East Coun. Paul Ainslie had proposed to remove the device. However, Coun. David Shiner worried that removal of the device would waste more money.
“When the kids have enough language to speak their mind and thoughts, it’s just always so surprising,” teacher Natsuke Nakamura said. “It’s beautiful.”
A Canadian defence historian worries that eviction of Toronto’s Air and Space Museum from its Downsview location threatens the country’s aviation heritage. On Sept. 20, Downsview Park, the museum’s landlord, delivered an eviction letter to museum volunteers, saying the museum has six months to pack up and leave.
The owner of a green energy equipment manufacturer says his company and its workers depend on a Liberal victory in the coming election. Samco Solar is based in Toronto. Bob Repovs, owner and CEO of…
One by one, some hand in hand, Torontonians and EMS personnel from across the nation gathered at Nathan Phillips Square on Sunday to pay their respects to the victims of 9-11. Red, white and blue…
The residents of Uxbridge kept embattled incumbent Bev Oda on her toes during a heated debate Sunday night at the Seniors Centre.
After nearly 30 years of faithful service in outer space, the Canadarm is set to return home when NASA’s space shuttle program concludes with the final shuttle blast-off later this month. The decision that remains, however, is where the one arm retiring home to Canada will actually reside. At least two Canadian museums want it.
A different kind of celebration happened at Fort York on Thursday night, not from the 18th century but from the 21st.
Taxi driver Mehdi Saharkhiz was on the night shift in the Portland and Adelaide area when two men approached his cab, knocked him unconscious with a blunt object and then robbed him.