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  • Kale your cravings with these healthy Halloween recipes October 20, 2017
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  • Inaugural Pegasus film fest aims to inspire October 19, 2017

Kale your cravings with these healthy Halloween recipes

October 20, 2017

Halloween is everywhere – the convenience store, supermarkets, dollar stores and front gardens all sport pumpkins, goblins and ghosts to remind us that Halloween, perhaps one of the most outlandish celebrations, is just around the corner. And just in time, Foodland Ontario has come out with special recipes in readiness for this witching night of […]

Futureproof your home using sustainable design

October 20, 2017

A recent visit to EDIT, the expo for design, innovation and technology got me thinking more seriously about design and the contribution it can make for our environment. There is a huge movement towards sustainable design and housing, with a move towards designing and building homes that are affordable and also energy efficient. A number […]

Garden Views: Farewell to summer loves

October 20, 2017

Have you given up on your tender outdoor plants yet? I confess I try to keep them going as long as I can. This means my neighbours see me staggering around with an unlikely collection of cardboard, sheets and towels, tenderly wrapping up my giant basil and gallant cannas like some kind of weird garden […]

Beach Memories: When Hurricane Hazel came crashing in

October 19, 2017

In the last month or so there have been terrible hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. These calamities have taken hundreds of lives and cause billions of dollars in damage to parts of the United States, Mexico and islands in the Caribbean. They are hard to understand and even harder to reason. Are they […]

Inaugural Pegasus film fest aims to inspire

October 19, 2017

The Pegasus Community Project is ready for its close up. The program, which supports adults with developmental disabilities, hosts its inaugural Pegasus Inspirational Film Festival (also known as PIFF) on Oct. 26. The event, a year in the making, showcases six short films created by Pegasus adult day program participants in partnership with film students […]

East Ender: When apathy is the biggest hump of all

October 18, 2017

The timing was perfect: A big black pickup – complete with a rumbly mating-call-of-the-inadequate-man exhaust system – sped past, interrupting my discussion with neighbour Larry Kidd before it really started. Kidd was out collecting signatures in support of speed humps on Hanson Street, south of Danforth at Coxwell, and I was eager for a progress […]

Believe the hops: East-end breweries among the best in the city

October 18, 2017

Craft breweries are spilling over into Toronto’s east end. Oversaturation to the west, a desire to work close to home, and demand for local craft beer are some of the reasons these craft brewers have chosen to set up shop east of Yonge Street in recent years. Here’s a look at some of the new […]

In the Beach, everything old is news again

October 18, 2017

If you’ve spent any time thumbing through old newspapers – or if you’re one of the lucky ones to have been of reading age when they were fresh off the press – you know that many of today’s debates have already happened. At a local level, fears over the commercialization of the Beach, backyard chicken […]

Changes to city contracting process delayed Woodbine bike lanes

October 18, 2017

Changes the city began rolling out last year to improve how it awards contracts led to delays in the construction of the new Woodbine bike lanes, Beach Metro has learned. The city had scheduled pavement marking for the bike lanes for early summer, ahead of roadwork at the intersection of Queen Street East and Coxwell […]

Birch Cliff typewriter aficionado hits the big screen in ‘California Typewriter’

October 17, 2017

“Tom Hanks is a natural on camera,” quips Birch Cliff resident Martin Howard during a recent conversation at a local coffee shop. “Sam Shepard waxes poetically… he makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck,” he adds. “Pure magic.” The local antique typewriter aficionado is speaking about his co-stars in the quirky […]

New theatre festival fancies the futuristic

October 17, 2017

The up-and-coming and innovative Seven Siblings Theatre is levelling up with the launch of its inaugural Future Theatre Festival, Oct. 19 to 29 at the Attic Arts Hub Theatre, 1402 Queen St. E. The festival follows the company’s fantastic realism mandate with the incubation and performance of three diverse and surprising new plays by Genevieve […]

Plucky pilot project planned for Beach backyards

October 17, 2017

Local councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon said a recently approved city pilot project that will allow Ward 32 residents to raise chickens in their backyards is a “good fit” for the community. “I’m a big supporter of urban agriculture,” said McMahon. The presence of “a lot of environmentally conscious people” in the ward, as well as its […]

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