Some consider it a delicacy, it can cost up to $200 a serving and, if some city councillors have their way, it may soon be banished from Toronto’s restaurants. The move to ban shark fin soup in the city is now in the hands of the municipal licensing and standards committee after a council meeting last week that pushed the issue ahead.
The City of Toronto heralded the return of summer by opening 12 outdoor swimming pools on the weekend. For many, the chance to cool off in one of them is an ideal way to recharge. “It’s like a summer camp where I can feel energized after spending a few hours,” said Teah Lauermeier.
Benvenuti e buon appetito. The 13th annual Taste of Little Italy festival took place June 17-19 on College Street between Bathurst and Shaw streets. More than 40 restaurants expanded their patios to serve Toronto’s Italians and Italians-at-heart.
A long 82-game season and two intense months of playoff hockey came down to just one game for the right to hoist hockey’s Holy Grail, a right claimed by the Boston Bruins. At bars across Toronto last night, the beer flowed and servers were kept busy as fans of the Vancouver Canucks and the Bruins lifted mugs of a different sort.
The temperature topped out at a thermometer-busting 32 degrees in Toronto today. Forty-two with the humidity. The heat prompted the city to declare a heat alert.
“The leadership is part of the renewal process, which I think everyone has to consider what’s in the best interest of the party and the country,” Rae said, “and I want to reflect on that before making any decisions.”
“We think of all those people that came before us, the millions of men and women who believed so passionately in a more fair society, and they refused to give up, often in the face of overwhelming odds,” Layton said. “We stand on the shoulders of these people today.”
On Monday night, as Peggy Nash celebrated her to return to Parliament as MP for Parkdale-High Park, nobody was happier than Sarah Doucette. The Toronto City Councillor for Ward 18, Doucette cited Nash for spurring…
As Jack Layton took the stage at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, early Tuesday morning, newly re-elected Trinity-Spadina MP Olivia Chow stood to the side, smiling, holding his cane as NDP supporters chanted and applauded….
Live from East York, Centennial College journalism students Deeanna Charrion and Kristopher Baker have the latest on the 2011 federal election.