Highland Creek: More than meets the eye
Posted 04 February 2010
Posted 05 February 2010
The only thing missing from Cathy Crowe’s victory party was the victory. In Thursday’s Toronto-Centre provincial by-election Crowe, a well known street nurse and star candidate for the NDP, earned 8,685 votes (31 per cent), nearly doubling the party’s previous performance in the riding but not enough to claim the Liberal stronghold. Glen Murray, a former mayor [...] Continue Reading
Posted 04 February 2010
The Ontario Labour Relations Board has voted in favour of allowing faculty members at Ontario’s 24 community colleges to vote on the colleges’ most recent offer on Feb. 10. This will extend the strike deadline, once more, from Feb. 11 to Feb. 17. Continue Reading
Posted 06 November 2009
Toronto and the Golden Horseshoe region will host the Pan Am Games in 2015. Defeating Lima, Colombia, Peru and Bogota on the first ballot, Toronto emerged victorious Friday evening in Guadalajara, Mexico. “We are thrilled. We will work hard to stage the best Pan and Parapan Am Games ever,” bid chair David Peterson said in a press [...] Continue Reading
Posted 04 February 2010
The Scarborough Hockey Association will not be closing its doors at the end of this season. Continue Reading
Posted 04 February 2010
Growing up in the war-torn streets of Lebanon is not your average upbringing. For Scarborough rapper and entrepreneur Noree "Strizzy Kastro" Remo, nothing has been ordinary or come easy. Continue Reading
Posted 28 January 2010
There was an overwhelming feeling that we just weren’t ready yet. I’m not writing about a surprise party gone wrong, ill preparations for a business meeting or an unexpected pregnancy. But instead, none other than the Copenhagen climate conference I attended one month ago in Denmark. Continue Reading
Posted 26 November 2009
“Children in Soweto didn’t have the things kids have here,” Sloly said. “They did realize, though, their power (to make change) and their potential.” Continue Reading
Posted 04 February 2010
It’s said that home is where the heart is. If that is true, then for those who call Highland Creek home, heart is definitely present. Continue Reading