Classes at York University have been canceled until further notice. The university and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) local 3903 failed to come to an agreement causing union members across the Greater Toronto…
Guns, bombs, deaths and ambushes: these are the familiar terms associated with war. But as two Canadian soldiers told an audience on Nov. 5, 2008, sometimes war has positive effects. Major Zane Piekenbrock and Captain…
Americans and Canadians united last night in Toronto to watch history take place before their very eyes. Supporters of president-elect Barack Obama excitedly gathered at parties across the city in anticipation of watching his victory….
With a growing number of capital construction projects, infrastructure to maintain and new city investment, Toronto is going to continue to run a deficit in to 2009.
Former prime minister Paul Martin was in Toronto Tuesday night promoting his memoir, Hell or High Water – My Life In and Out of Politics. He talked about everything from the charter of rights and…
A recent European Union health report warns that high volume setting on personal music players could permanently damage one’s hearing. A team of nine experts, on the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health…
Dozens of people packed tightly in the front entrance of the Dufferin/St.Clair Branch of the Toronto Public Library on Tuesday. Avid readers waited patiently for the nearly 90-year-old library to reopen its doors to the…
It’s thousands of kilometres and 91 years removed from the actual battlefield, but the sounds of “Passchendaele,” the movie, came from small town Ontario. Andy Malcolm calls himself a “foley artist.” Foley involves examining the…
About 200 people sat down Thursday night to discuss the future of Toronto’s transportation system. Metrolinx, formerly the Greater Toronto Transit Authority, hosted the third in a series of seven public meetings on Thursday about…
In 2006 Scarborough resident Taryn Welch-Joslyn caught the attention of her friends and family. At just 13 years of age, she was diagnosed with an eating disorder-anorexia nervosa. During her recovery period, she never would…