Family Day - Holiday For Some, Just Another Day For Most

Family Day - Holiday For Some, Just Another Day For Most Mike WoodFeb 20 2012 Family Day was originally celebrated by Alberta in 1990, with the premier of Alberta at the time, Don Getty, having the third Monday of February proclaimed as Family Day. Getty is said to have...

The Black Widow Makes Her First Canadian Appearance

The Black Widow Makes Her First Canadian Appearance Mike WoodJan 11 2012 Making her Canadian debut on Tuesday night, Jeanette Lee, better known to the billiard world as The Black Widow, was welcomed by a crowd...

Canada’s Latest Money - A New Meaning To Spending With Plastic

Canada’s Latest Money - A New Meaning To Spending With Plastic Known as the 2011 Polymer Series, these bank notes which are replacing the Canadian Journey Series (2001–2006) notes that according to the Bank...

Occupy Toronto Camp Cleared

Occupy Toronto Camp Cleared After 40 days of protest, the Occupy Toronto setting at St. James Park in downtown Toronto has come to a peaceful halt Wednesday, with Police issuing an eviction notice and dismantling...

Thousands Rally For Occupy Toronto

Thousands Rally For Occupy Toronto Under intermittent rain and high winds, thousands gathered today in busy downtown Toronto to show support for the month-long Occupy Wall Street and numerous uprisings across the...

Big Parking in the Big City

While driving in and around Toronto one cant help but notice the big green 'P' signs sticking out in select locations and the solar powered pay-and-display units aka parking meters standing neatly at attention...

Jack Layton Makes His Final Appearances Before Election

It was standing room only at Beaches-East York NDP candidate Matthew Kellway's Campaign Office last night as a crowd of close to 200 piled onto the Danforth Ave sidewalk at Roseheath Ave in Toronto's East End,...

Thousands March In 'SlutWalk' Rally

“I’ve been told I’m not supposed to say this, however, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” A statement made by Toronto Police Const. Michael Sanguinetti when he and...

Thousands Rally At Toronto’s City Hall To Support A Coalition Government

Federal Liberal leader Stéphane Dion and NDP leader Jack Layton addressed thousands of cold braving supporters at Toronto City Hall’s Nathan Phillips Square yesterday, to pitch their plan of a Liberal-NDP...

Healthcare Incompetence And Emergency Room Waiting - Oh The Pain Of It All

Op/Ed   Our health care system has become nothing less than a joke. Anyone who has paid a visit to an emergency department, here in Toronto anyway, can attest to that.   More of my story, opinion...

Demonstrators Rally For Release Of Guantanamo's Youngest Prisoner

The wind driven rain may have pounded the downtown Toronto streets on Saturday, but it wasn't enough to stop the hundred plus protesters who turned out in front of the American consulate, to demand the release of...

Explosion Rocks Toronto's East End - UPDATE

The Sunday morning explosion that rattled the apartment building at 2 Secord Avenue in Toronto's East End caused extensive damage to the basement levels of the building, electrical room and the parking...

Explosion Rocks Toronto's East End

More than a hundred Firefighters, 45 trucks and 2 Hazmat units were at the scene of a five-alarm blaze at an apartment building on Secord Avenue, just NW of Dawes Road and Danforth Avenue today. The fire...

Graffiti At It's Finest - Toronto's Style In Progress...Revisited

A follow-up to "Graffiti At It's Finest - Toronto's Style In Progress" story here: http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/graffiti-its-finest-torontos-style-progress Another picture perfect sunny day in Graffiti Alley,...

Graffiti At Its Finest - Toronto's Style In Progress

Dozens of graffiti artists from all ages and skill, gathered yesterday in Toronto's "Graffiti Alley" for the 2008 Style In Progress, a legal event which spans from Spadina Avenue to Portland Street in the Queen...

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