It took a couple of years, but a local artist’s ship has finally come in.
William Brisland, who creates coastal-inspired artwork, has taken part in the Riverdale Art Show and Sale for the past three years. In all that time, he didn’t sell one of his watercolour paintings.
The project will begin construction in the summer of 2017. Poussin’s design features an obelisk just over nine metres tall.
Tickets go on sale on Oct. 7 for the first of its kind exhibition, which focuses on art, nature and mysticism.
An elderly couple had a fire start in the kitchen. Local fire safety businessman extinguished the neighbour’s blaze.
Today is Square Root Day, as the date is 4/4/16. People are doing mathematics-related activities and tweeting to observe the unofficial holiday.
TTC projections show ridership is on track for a third year of declining numbers.
John Tory is giving the key to the city to rapper Drake outside of Ricoh Coliseum on Friday.
Around Remembrance Day, Michael Warren’s son recalls his father’s toughest wartime memory in Belgium during the Second World War. “My dad said the Germans knew exactly where they were,” Daniel Warren said. “Sometime during the night, (his father’s unit) started getting bombed and the commanding officer told everybody to ‘Stay in your trenches. Don’t get out.’ In the morning, my dad was the only one alive. He lost 19 of his friends. He said, ‘It’s just pure luck.’”
In his defeat Monday night in Scarborough Southwest, the incumbent called on the victorious Liberal candidate to address constituents’ needs. Nationally, the Liberals won a majority government and, according to CBC’s Canada Votes site, Bill…