Even on grey winter days, Jason Kucherawy meets his tour group with a buoyant greeting at a coffee shop across Nathan Phillips Square. Continue Reading

The windows were smashed, leaving small glass shards hanging from the corners of the frame. But the contents within the office of Toronto’s Tamil newspaper, Uthayan, were untouched. Continue Reading

This is Family Residence, a city-run shelter housing more than 50 families. Behind the fence is Idlewood Inn, rented by the city when the shelter is full. Paying a weekly rate of less than $300, some lodgers stay for months. Continue Reading

The National Park Now Committee is hoping to have Rouge Park officially named Rouge National Park by the end of this year. Continue Reading

U of T geology professor Nick Eyles passed on his excitement about rocks to a Scarborough audience of 60 at Bendale Public Library last month. Continue Reading

Chewing with your mouth open won’t get you dirty looks at this establishment, especially when no one can see you. Toronto’s first completely dark restaurant, O.Noir on Church and Charles streets, wants to teach the sighted about the sightless. Owner Moe Alameddine puts his guest’s senses to the test while they dine in total darkness. Continue Reading

Iftikhar Shaikh’s has dirt under his fingernails. His hands are scratched from working in tight spaces. Beads of sweat dot his forehead. But Shaikh, 16, a Grade 10 student at Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute in Toronto, doesn’t mind. He’s just happy to be here. Continue Reading

Toronto police are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying two men seen on surveillance tape from a North York homicide, Detective Mike Carbone told a press conference today. Sometime between 6:30 and 6:45 p.m. on Feb. 8, 22-year-old Tyrell Duffus left his apartment and entered the eighth floor stairwell of his building at 20 Falstaff Ave. He [...] Continue Reading

Eastern Commerce High School’s boys basketball team has been crowned champion of Toronto for the fourth year running after edging cross-town rivals Oakwood Barons 64-61 Thursday. Supporters of both schools packed the stands at Ryerson University to take in the 2010 Toronto Boys’ Basketball City Championship. With the win, Eastern’s Saints move on to the Ontario Federation [...] Continue Reading

After uncovering approximately 12,000 shards of pottery concealed underneath a small undisturbed strip of land, the Markham Museum, now has the evidence to tell the story of area pioneers and their relationship to the land. On Feb. 15 the Markham Museum opened its new archaeology lab. Excavating a piece of land on the north side of [...] Continue Reading