A request to redirect funds intended for a Scarborough pedestrian bridge to playground equipment instead was turned down at an April 5 city budget meeting. The proposal was made by Coun. Glenn De Baeremaeker when it was revealed the 2003 plans to build the 25-metre bridge had gone nowhere.
Green Party candidates in Scarborough say they welcome a recent court ruling decriminalizing marijuana. Canada’s federal medical marijuana program is “unconstitutional” because it didn’t legally allow access to medicinal marijuana, an Ontario court ruled April 13.
In 10 years, 80 percent of the trees in Guildwood Village will be gone, Toronto parks and recreation chair Norm Kelly says. That’s because they’re ash trees and are under attack by a foreign enemy.
The sounds of African drums rang in the official opening of the new Taibu Community Health Centre for the black community and Malvern residents on Wednesday evening.
A Toronto-based Liberal candidate in the current federal election campaign says the Conservatives’ plan for income splitting won’t serve family needs. Income splitting is a tax incentive introduced in the Conservatives’ 2011 platform. It is…
If young people want a voice, they should join political parties and vote, star Liberal candidate Justin Trudeau said Monday while campaigning in Scarborough-Rouge River. Trudeau, son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, was at the Chinese Cultural Centre for a rally hosted by first-time candidate Rana Sarkar.
Scarborough’s Consilium Place is one of the deadliest office complexes for migratory birds in Toronto, Ecojustice and Ontario Nature are alleging in a groundbreaking lawsuit. According to Ecojustice, about 7,000 dead and injured birds have been documented by Fatal Light Awareness Program at the site over the last decade.
At the beginning of April, 48-year-old artist and Scarborough-native Brent Townsend set up a five-metre cross on his Campbellford, Ont., lawn with a noose hanging from it. A sign attached to the cross reads “Political cover up drags on.” Late last week, he added a tarred-and-feathered sign to the display.
An expert in computer science sees little difference between the Liberal and Conservative policies to implement universal internet access in Canada.
In the last days of her mother’s life coping with Alzheimer’s, Maria Minna took on the role of primary caregiver. She often relied on her family’s own resources when there didn’t appear to be help from government services.