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As Toronto has changed, so has the Blue Jays home opener
Summer; yes, I think I remember. Those strange shoes with the elastic band between the toes? Ice cream? Beer that sweats in your hand? Guns AND Roses? Right? And that game where one round thing hits...
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‘He’s not ready to feel remorse’: Wife of man Richard Kachkar killed adamant...
Comment Christine Russell, widow of Sgt. Ryan Russell, glared silently across the table Tuesday at Richard Kachkar, the man behind the wheel of the snowplow that killed her husband, a Toronto police...
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A good day is 15 metres: Inside the long, dirty slog digging a tunnel under...
My notepad is soggy and covered in grime. By dim light,deep underground, men in orange rubber overalls dance nimbly across curved slabs of cement as big as compact cars. One worker emerges from a tiny...
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Peter Kuitenbrouwer: It seems paradoxical that the officers protecting...
Comment When Charnjit “Sonny” Bassi, a 45-year-old father of one, walked into the courthouse in Brampton and shot Const. Mike Klarenbeek, one detail made it easier for police to respond: in Peel...
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Some stayed for hours, some stayed for years: Quick sale forces tenants out...
Comment The Princess of Jilly’s emerges onto Broadview Avenue a little after noon. With flowing brown hair and a pierced lip, she wears thigh-high boots over jeans, a Harley-Davidson T-shirt and a...
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Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Olivia Chow turns focus from Rob Ford onto John Tory
Comment A fascinating and refreshing thing happened Tuesday at a Canadian Club lunch featuring mayoral candidate Olivia Chow: Mayor Rob Ford’s name barely came up. With Toronto’s chief magistrate...
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Dave Bidini: Maple Leaf Forever Park — Gone in a blue puff of smoke
Comment PARKLIFE: Dave Bidini tours Toronto’s parks and parkettes, one at a time. This week: Maple Leaf Forever Park, near Queen Street East and Leslie. I watched a man smoke a cigarette in the “Maple...
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Mayoral candidate David Soknacki proposes banning all street parking in the...
David Soknacki, the former city budget chief who is running for mayor, wants to remove all parking from main streets in the heart of Toronto to make room for cyclists and help move traffic faster. “On...
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Dave Bidini: Trinity Bellwoods is the sudden verdant heart of Canada’s new...
Parklife: Dave Bidini tours Toronto’s parks and parkettes, one at a time. This week: Trinity Bellwoods, on Queen Street West. If the cliché goes that the World Cup brings out the best in Toronto life,...
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Chris Selley: Toronto needs civic rehab — and a true Everyman mayor — to...
Comment So here we are. Business as usual. Rob Ford is back, tied in the polls with John Tory. It seems highly unlikely he has room enough to grow into another victory — but it’s frankly irresponsible...
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Mohamad Fakih: In wake of heinous Toronto graffiti, everybody should be...
URBAN SCRAWL COMMENT My own son, born and raised in Canada, which makes him as Canadian as Wayne Gretzky, was told to “go back to his country” when stepping off of a school bus at the age of 8 years...
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After waiting more than a decade, cyclists are taking to the new bike lanes...
Comment After more than a decade of study, debate, lobbying, motions, protests, cyclist deaths and environmental assessments, this week crews created Toronto’s first east-end separated lanes to move...
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Chris Selley: Though he bore the mark of the G20 debacle, Bill Blair had lots...
Comment It damns outgoing police chief Bill Blair with faint praise to compare him favourably to his brass-knuckles predecessor, Julian Fantino. But the contrast usefully highlights why, in many...
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Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Three years ago $20M was spent planting London Plane...
Comment In 2003 I lunched on Bloor Street with James Brown and Kim Storey, of Brown + Storey Architects, to discuss their plan to reimagine Canada’s premier shopping strip. I observed then that, “The...
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City staff must install posts to make new bike lanes safer because Toronto...
You would think that the opening of a new bike lane would be a cause for celebration in the bike-riding world. But Cycle Toronto Wednesday released a blistering attack on a new bike lane on Adelaide...
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Chris Selley: If you can’t stomach telling voters transit needs to be paid...
Comment It is as if the last four years never happened. City council spent an entire term tearing most of Rob Ford’s transit agenda to shreds, and he hasn’t just retabled it. He’s gone bigger. He...
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Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Diverted King car during opening days of TIFF leads to...
COMMENT The 504 King streetcar is Toronto’s busiest surface route, moving 60,000 passengers a day, often at a pace that is slower than I can walk. So what does the city do? It make things worse. On...
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Doug Ford is a bigger bully, ex-Rob voter says
Sure, says the man in the Boston Red Sox baseball cap, he would be happy to speak with me, only no names, because he doesn’t trust newspapers to get the facts straight. And the facts are this: he is a...
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Chris Selley: Don’t bet on private transit in Toronto not getting quashed,...
Comment One of the most frustrating features of Toronto’s interminable transit debates is the opposition of principled conservatives to traditional funding methods for want of what they see as...
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Chris Selley: John Tory’s vison of a city that wants new ideas to flourish is...
COMMENT “We can’t adopt a business-as-usual approach,” John Tory told reporters Wednesday morning after meeting his transition team at North York City Centre. He meant it can’t be business as usual on...
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