Living near Christie Pits hasn’t always been a walk in the park for Nathan Grundy.
Grundy, 32, remembers trash enveloping the park during the garbage strike of 2009 and wonders how a new city councillor would clean up Toronto’s public spaces.
Toronto’s five leading mayoral hopefuls all pledge to build a bus stop closer to Variety Village, but that’s where the consensus on accessible transit ends.
Bin Lin has to wait for eight years to cast her first vote in aToronto municipal election. The 25-year-old landed in Canada as a permanent resident in 2006. Last July, she filed her application for…
Nancy Jenter’s city is no longer Toronto the Good. As a welfare recipient and food bank patron, Jenter says she knows first-hand how Toronto treats its underprivileged citizens. “Poor people are being left to rot…
A public transit commuter from Scarborough challenged Toronto’s mayoral candidates to come up with a better way during a public debate at the University of Toronto Tuesday night. Sarah Thomson, Rocco Rossi, George Smitherman, Joe…
Two mayoral debates are planned for tonight in Toronto, leaving candidates and organizers to do some last-minute juggling.
Toronto should be a “refugee-free” zone, mayoral hopeful Rob Ford said in a televised debate Aug. 17. His opponents disagreed.
Transit upgrades needed to support the 2015 Pan American games will be built as scheduled, but other TTC projects may be delayed because of the 2010 Ontario budget.
The next mayor of Toronto, elected in the fall, will shape the city for the next four years. The mayoral candidates talked to the East Toronto Observer about four major issues, and their vision for Scarborough.