The Scarborough Hospital Foundation celebrated the overwhelming success of its Look Inside Yourself MRI campaign at the hospital’s Birchmount campus Wednesday Feb. 6. The campaign, launched in January 2012, met its $5 million goal. That…
Scarborough seniors are getting potentially life-saving support from a community health group. Despite this flu season being particularly severe, they know they will be taken care of. The Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities (SCHC) is…
An organization in Scarborough is refusing to be a bystander to mental illness and believes no one should fight their battle alone. YouthLink took to the streets of Scarborough in 2004, recognizing the need for…
Designed in a colourful bubble theme, the facility is bright, cheerful, tactile and extremely spacious, with large examination rooms and hallways wide enough for parking strollers.
It started in 1984 with a group of individuals that ran together on a regular basis. Today, despite minor obstacles, the Rouge River Roadrunners continue the tradition.
A handful of corporations possess a great deal of influence over farmers worldwide, says scientist and environmental activist Dr. Vandana Shiva. Shiva, a leading opponent of genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) and the patenting of seeds, spoke at a Nov. 15 event at the University of Toronto about seed autonomy.
It is difficult enough to find a vegetarian restaurant,but to come across a vegetarian food bank is a pleasant surprise. Scarborough is the home to the only vegetarian food bank in North America.
“Just a simple change like changing the mashed potatoes over to Ontario-fresh mashed potatoes would have a huge impact on the patient clientele,” said Leslie Carson. “We’re basically replacing a frozen entrée type product with a freshly-made Ontario product.”
Many have their eyes on the skies in Scarborough after the sighting of a gyrfalcon earlier this month.
The European falcon is not a surprise to see, according to Ralph Toinger, manager of habitat restoration with region conservation awareness.
When Microsoft’s chief research officer took to the stage in Tianjin, China, last month, his language skills made an auditorium of hundreds of native Mandarin speakers applaud wildly. But he only spoke English at the conference. As he explained new developments in instantaneous translation and interpretation, Rick Rashid’s English spoken words were simultaneously translated robotically to Mandarin. The stunned crowd applauded the new computer system that can recognize human speech patterns, thanks to a U of T research team.