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A greater number of housing units and smaller spending limits don’t add up in Ward 20, two candidates say.

If you can’t find the students of Mr. Adams’ grade four and five class, check in the bushes behind the school. No, they aren’t playing hide and seek. They’re in Cassandra Public School’s outdoor classroom.

From a sewer standpoint, Toronto’s an old city. When it rains, water flows into storm drains and overflows into the sanitation system and then out into local rivers and, eventually, Lake Ontario. It’s the major source of water pollution in the city, but it’s not the only one.

Imagine a city. A big, bustling, friendly city. A city that Reader’s Digest ranked in its top three “most courteous” cities in the world. Now imagine a city where a 17-year-old is stripped to his underwear, brutally beaten and fatally stabbed in front of dozens of witnesses.

With the help of a sophisticated computer system, Tony Morizio can find out the temperature in every office in Toronto’s TD Centre towers.

Lou Hoffer knows his organization can help, they just need a chance to prove it

On Sept. 14, 2004, Brenda McIntyre’s life changed. The day before her mother’s 60th birthday, Brenda McIntyre sat holding her hand in a surgeon’s office. The doctor explained to her that he would have to remove her mother’s breast. As the reality settled in, she couldn’t figure out the words to comfort her mom. Her mom’s reaction ended up shocking her the most.

Without anywhere to dance the tarantella and play the tambourines, some Italians in Scarborough are feeling left out with the lack of Italian festivals in the area. “Everything is in the west end of the…