By Mary FRAN McQUADE Usually, right around now, gardeners would be thinking about what we want to grow this year. But nothing’s usual about this March and April of 2020. Garden centres and nurseries are closed for in-person visits. They aren’t included on the list of essential businesses the province released on March 24. But […]
By JAN MAIN This Easter will have a different flavour from all others. A celebration with distance – how does that work? Indeed, we need a celebration more than ever. Something to distract us from the nightmare of this virus and the horrible isolation. However, this Easter will not be the usual large family around […]
By KATIE FULLERTON This is the third of a series of articles on Green Groups in the East End that I began writing earlier this year. There is a growing understanding by local residents that minimizing the potentially dire effects of Climate Change will require action on all fronts. Many have been frustrated by the […]
By ANN BROKELMAN This winter, and now continuing into the spring, I have discovered the joy of using trail and inside cameras. For the longest time, our dog, Rory, would be sitting on his ottoman by the front windows and would tell us, better described as ‘losing his mind while howling’, whenever we had a […]
By GENE DOMAGALA Whatever happened to the businesses on Queen Street East? Dear readers, I want your input and your memories on this crucial subject. First, let us get a little bit of history on Queen Street since this month is Toronto’s birthday. Queen Street, in one way or another, locally and politically has been […]
By NATHANIEL ERSKINE-SMITH The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented, and we need to work together to stop the spread of the virus and to address its serious and negative economic impact. As individuals, we need to listen to the advice of public health experts. That means staying home and social/physical distancing as much […]
By BERNIE FLETCHER On St. Patrick’s Day which was celebrated this week, everyone is Irish. One hundred years ago Toronto the Good was a very different place, more “Orange” than “Green”. Our hockey team may have been called the St. Pat’s, but the city of 1920 was controlled by Protestants and L.O.L. stood for “Loyal […]
By SHELLEY McVEA Pick a saint, any saint. Most of us would be hard pressed to name one beyond the big three – Nicholas (my favourite), Valentine, and Patrick. Veneration and celebrating of saints seems to have gone out of fashion not only for secular people, but for many of us religious types as well. […]
By ANN BROKELMAN What a winter this one has been! One day it felt like -20 with the wind chill and the next I’m driving with the windows down . I’ve certainly taken advantage of the warmer days to get out more often and observe some local animals’ winter behaviour. A few weeks ago I […]
By B.F. NAGY “It’s time to get serious,” says Kostadin Demirov, who has spent years building fine custom homes in the eastern Beach area. His latest move is to act as developer of a 68-unit rental apartment project at Main Street and Kingston Road. And this time he will also retain ownership and become the […]
