Toronto has a plethora of events and festivals taking place this summer. Here are a few of the main events taking place in the city throughout the last month of the summer. Continue Reading

Members from the Toronto Police Service, LGBT community and the Community Consultative Committee held an emergency meeting July 1 to address allegations of contact between police and LGBT community members during the recent G20 summit. Continue Reading

Three Toronto high school’s are expanding their concert musical programs into uncharted - and unscripted - territory. Under the guidance of 22-year-old Toronto musician, teacher and entrepreneur Mitch Wong, students at De La Salle College, University of Toronto Schools and St. Clement's School are learning how to jam. Continue Reading

It’s not easy making new friends at high school, even if you’re a police officer. Instead of patrolling the downtown streets of Toronto, Constable Mo Fadel now roams the hallways of Senator O’Connor High School as part of a joint program with the Catholic School Board. Senator O’Connor is one of 50 schools to employ officers as [...] Continue Reading

Adults ducked and dodged each other across the arts studio floor. Some were assassins. Others were bodyguards. It was all make-believe and, according to innovation consultant Colleen Reitzel, designed to stimulate creativity. “It was really just fun to let loose and be a participant,” she said. “It was really a great time. The improv was phenomenal.” The [...] Continue Reading

Typing, deleting, rewording and second-guessing, Nick Muehlen recently struggled to write a Facebook message. “All of a sudden, you want to pour your heart out and you don’t know. Would that scare somebody away?” Muehlen said. “I was a walking mess. It was very, very intense.” Continue Reading

When Nadine Pequeneza decided to film a documentary about humanitarian aid, she didn’t look for Haiti — Haiti found her. “I didn’t decide to focus on Haiti,” Pequeneza said. “Haiti decided to focus on us.” Pequeneza is currently editing and finalizing her documentary titled Inside Disaster. The documentary focuses on seven individuals (three Haitians and four aid [...] Continue Reading

They have had only one professional camera to share, but the students of St. Boniface Catholic School's photography club still manage to put on a high-quality exhibit at the Scarborough Bluff's Gallery for two weeks every year. Continue Reading

With so many Caribbean restaurants around Scarborough, it's hard to differentiate between the cream of the crop, and the rest of the lot. The Observer visited a few Caribbean restaurants and this is what we found. Continue Reading

Looking through the eye of a photographer isn’t always pleasant, especially when covering the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Toronto photographer, Lucas Oleniuk,  was sent to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince two days after the disaster struck in January. Although he was there to capture the devastation through the lens of his camera, the harsh reality [...] Continue Reading