Scarborough Agincourt locals hopeful over new development
Scarborough Agincourt residents appear to support a new mid-rise building planned for the area of Highway 401 and Victoria Park Avenue.
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Entrepreneurs get boost with Business Inc.
The Toronto Public Library in collaboration with the Toronto Business Development Centre and the city of Toronto offers the eight-week program called Business Inc. designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs develop their businesses.
Players see this brand of hockey purely for the joy of it
Whistles and shouts echo around the cavernous Agincourt Recreation Centre. Florescent lights glare off the ice surface. It even smells like a hockey arena – coffee and hockey equipment. But the game played is different. Eddie Parenteau manages the team on the ice. “You’re not allowed to put (the puck) in the top of the net because you can’t catch what you don’t see,” he said.
Voting assistance provided at the Scarborough Civic Action Network
“Just by helping people to get informed on things like why you should vote and how policy effects everyday life, it gets people to think in a certain way and gets them more involved beyond voting. We promote voting and we promote things like writing to your MP.”
Film club fumble
An empty film club tries to attain an audience at a Scarborough library. The National Film board of Canada (NFB) has partnered with public libraries, including some in Scarborough, to promote Canadian films.
Scarborough-Agincourt lagging in growth, but development right on track
Scarborough-Agincourt has seen its population growth come to a steep decline. According to Statistics Canada, it has the lowest population growth of all the federal electoral ridings located in the Scarborough area. Only 0.2 per cent growth from 2006 to 2011, also calculated as an additional 181 people.
Sam Sotiropoulos wins TDSB Ward 20 byelection
In the end, every vote mattered as IT specialist Sam Sotiropoulos won the TDSB Ward 20 byelection, beating out 13 other candidates.
Voting day for new TDSB trustee for Ward 20
Votes will be cast on Feb. 27 for a new Toronto District School Board trustee to represent Ward 20, the Scarborough-Agincourt area.
Agincourt’s principal of the year, just don’t tell his students
Louie Papathanasakis, 53, has been the principal at Agincourt Collegiate Institute for five years, and oversees 1,500 students and close to 100 teaching staff.
Papathanasakis was recently named one of Canada’s Outstanding Principals for 2012, but ask him about the award and he would rather talk about the students.
Agincourt CI to compete in city volleyball championship tomorrow
The Agincourt Collegiate junior boys’ volleyball team will advance to the city finals tomorrow at Humber College after winning both their sets against York Mills Collegiate yesterday afternoon. Their opponent will be decided today as…