Articles by Paula Last


Scarborough starts 2013 with lower homicide rate

Scarborough and North York’s homicide rates were the lowest in Toronto for the first three months of 2013, say Toronto police statistics. But what do these statistics really tell us about how safe these areas are? “It’s hard to give you an exact answer,” Const. Tony Vella said.




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Room for dreams and memories

Since 2011, Kendal Gerard, 27, has blogged about life in her East York bungalow. The blog was project-oriented at first, and so named Before and After. Eventually it was renamed to reflect a big decision she and her husband, Pierre Gerard, 29 made to Little Bungalow: Less Space, More Happiness. After a year of increasingly ambitious blueprints, Gerard and her husband decided that the original 1940s floor plan was just fine.