40 Years
The Beach's source for news Since 1972
Search:

Columns rss

McAdams films close to home

February 22, 2012

February is the month for love and romantic movies. In The Vow, Rachel McAdams plays a freespirited artist who loses all memory of her husband (Channing Tatum) after a car crash. He has to win her heart all over again. Would you do anything for love? It all started with a kiss. Thomas Edison’s The [...]

Full Story»

Greenwood Avenue’s history of bricks

We have in the East End a number of exceptional streets that are known for a variety of reasons. One of these is Greenwood Avenue. Greenwood  is located almost in the middle between Leslie Street and Coxwell Avenue. Greenwood is unique in that it probably had more brickyards than any other street in the city [...]

Politically co-opted reflections

Malvern Collegiate Institute offers senior students (in grade 11 and 12) the opportunity to participate in a co-op program. In my experience, this is an eye-opening course that gives student a reality check on society’s working world. As a proud participant of the program, I would like to share my experience working alongside the Ward [...]

Why the Beach needs a subway

We heard it over and over again in the last municipal election: we need to expand our transit system to get people home from work faster. While this may be true, it is shortsighted and leads to the ongoing transit mediocrity we have been mired in for decades. We don’t need a transit system that [...]


More in this category

Connect With BMN

Most Read News

Past Articles