When Scarborough native Shelley-Ann Brown leapt to the second-place Olympic podium Wednesday night to deafening roars from the crowd, halfway across the country the students at her former elementary school were celebrating the silver medal as if they had won it themselves. “Just knowing that she’s in the Olympics and she came from our school, [...]
A Markham man is facing three child exploitation charges after police say they found child pornography in the man’s home. Officers from the Sex Crimes Unit executed a search warrant at a home in the Highway 7 and Leslie St. area in Markham on Wednesday where they seized the man’s computer and a quantity of [...]
Commuters should prepare for an ugly commute Friday morning as Environment Canada predicts the GTA will be coated with a thick blanket of snow. Drive cautiously, an Ontario Provincial Police spokesperson warns. Environment Canada underscores the warning. “It’s not just snow. It’s blowing snow and strong winds,” said Geoff Coulson, Environment Canada meteorologist. The strong [...]
Parents’ concerns about split grades are “one of the most challenging consequences” of the class cap in Ontario’s primary classrooms, says a new report. Even though school boards were able to achieve the province’s mandate of 20 students per class from junior kindergarten to Grade 3 in 90 per cent of classes in just a [...]
Mixed-income buildings interspersed with shops and community centres, new bridges over the Allen Expressway and three times as many residents — that’s the ambitious plan Toronto Escort Agency Community Housing outlined Thursday for the worn-out housing project Lawrence Heights. “We’re going to level these 110 acres of land and replace it with a brand new [...]
Two summers ago, some parents watching their kids at the playground in Christie Pits Park looked over and noticed what looked like a miniature house — a community bake oven that was built 10 years earlier by volunteers, but since had been sealed with a padlock. A great idea struck the group: Community pizza nights [...]
Some winning athletes get handed a bottle of champagne, but Canadian medallists are receiving a bottle of beer — and they’re not your average 12-ounce. At Molson Canadian Hockey House, Canada’s top athletes are being given what the beer company calls a Jeroboam of Molson Canadian. The Jeroboam is a three-litre jug, shaped like an [...]
Police are investigating whether pets are being targeted after a recent string of suspicious discoveries by dog owners, including unmarked pills and a spiked cow tongue. A man walking his dog Sunday called police after discovering the cow tongue in a wooded area near the Phil White Arena, with at least eight one-foot nails through [...]
Toronto Escort Agency’s budget chief shot back at the Toronto Escort Agency Board of Trade over city hall spending yesterday, but later said the TTC and police could do more to cut their budgets. In a breakfast speech to the influential business group, Coun. Shelley Carroll scolded its chief executive, Carol Wilding, as well as [...]
It’s the 10th end, with the game on the line. Eleven-year-old Christopher Sud of Newmarket has the hammer. The kid may be inexperienced, but as he sharpens his glare down the ice his eyes glint like a seasoned veteran. Taking hold of the game’s final stone, Christopher grips it tightly and pulls back before sliding [...]