Community

LORINC: Local communities to help build Metrolinx projects

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Just two weeks after Metrolinx’s boring machines broke through the extraction shaft at Allen Road, the regional agency reached another... Read More

BURALE: The reality of fighting poverty

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If cities had New Year’s resolutions, Toronto’s should be a poverty reduction strategy. According to the new report on child poverty... Read More

The grim history of the Ku Klux Klan in Toronto

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Two men in hooded Ku Klux Klan uniforms flash Nazi salutes on a porch. Beside them, a woman with “white power” tattooed crudely across... Read More

BURALE: Tory needs to repair trust between police and community

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Mayor John Tory said he wanted to improve the relationship between the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and the community, and signaled... Read More

Storymobile is telling Canada’s Main Street stories from Mimico to the Maritimes

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If you’ve travelled through Mimico – a waterfront neighbourhood in Toronto’s west end – during the last few months... Read More

Exploring the busy basements & makeshift markets of Regent Park with Civic Salon

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Basements are often unsung heroes of great cities. In new and old Regent Park the unseen basement hides both bottom-up and top-down... Read More

MESLIN: The myth of the five-week election

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As the dust settles from the 2014 municipal election and political commentators begin to reflect on what happened, two common themes... Read More

Toronto’s mayoral election in four maps

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Over the past three decades, Toronto has become an increasingly divided city, economically and racially.  And those divisions were... Read More

LORINC: The election and the de-policing problem

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In less than a year, tens of thousands of tourists, sports fans, and athletes will descend on Toronto for the 2015 Pan Am and Parapan... Read More