Toronto can add a new problem to its list of challenges: wealth
Toronto has always been a city bursting at the seams. We don’t have enough road capacity for all our cars and trucks, and our public transit system is underdeveloped and overcrowded. We are just...
View ArticleSupport your community by supporting your local Toronto hospital
Next week marks Community Hospital Week in our city — a week designated to help spread awareness of all that happens in these hospitals right in our own backyards. These health care institutions are...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Toronto still has room to grow 20 years after amalgamation
Twenty years ago this month, then-Ontario premier Mike Harris officially introduced the law that would erase the historic municipal borders in Metropolitan Toronto, and create the new city in which we...
View ArticleOur Opinion: Ontario one correction away from a debt crisis
The Kathleen Wynne government turned the fiscal page Thursday and introduced a balanced budget, and if you listened carefully you could hear the congratulatory backslapping from Toronto all the way to...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: It's time to celebrate our everyday heroes
In a world often dominated by depressing headlines, inconsequential information and political movements that drive apart rather than bring people together, it’s refreshing to be able to take pause and...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Toronto councillors face tough choices in election year budget
Election year budget will be a tough one
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It's time to celebrate our everyday heroes
In a world often dominated by depressing headlines, inconsequential information and political movements that drive apart rather than bring people together, it’s refreshing to be able to take pause and...
View ArticleToronto Star's View: Music and arts should be taught in elementary schools
The education ministry should ensure that all students, regardless of where they live or their family’s income, receive arts instruction during school hours
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Tattered Canadian flags should be grounded
With Canada Day celebrations, marking the 150th year in our nation’s history, rapidly approaching, flags will be flying from coast to coast.
View ArticleEDITORIAL: So far as hydro rates go, the other shoe drops in 2021
Welcome one and all to the Ontario government's incredible, stupendous hydro-cuts emporium where you can buy cheaper electricity today — then pay big-time for it later. If this makes the Liberals'...
View ArticleA day in the life — being indigenous today in Ontario
"What does it mean to be an indigenous person in Ontario today?"
View ArticleOur Opinion: Intimidation won’t silence local media
A group of disgruntled city councillors in Brampton seem to be confusing freedom of the press with freedom from the press.
View ArticleIndigenous people's experience is not our story to tell
For this week's Metroland Central report, we explore something of what it's like to be an indigenous person at this time in our history.
View ArticleSupport your community by supporting your local Toronto hospital
Next week marks Community Hospital Week in our city — a week designated to help spread awareness of all that happens in these hospitals right in our own backyards. These health care institutions are...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Are Toronto councillors losing their hard-won civility as election...
There have been some rough patches at Toronto City Hall this term, but on balance, the months and years following the 2014 election have been remarkably civil. It seems as though Mayor John Tory has...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Learning from our past helps guide our future
Toronto's come a long way in its relatively short history, with substantial change taking shape in the last 150 years. Consider, if you lived in Parkdale in the 1800s, you were probably upper-class....
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Babies in the downtown are a blessing, and a bigger responsibility
Ah, to be young, living in a vibrant and accessible city — and, of course, in love. It is a dream that is coming true for a growing number of young people who’ve chosen to start their lives in the...
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Province should extend timeline for minimum-wage increase
Committee hearings are underway on the province’s proposal to raise the minimum wage in Ontario to $15 by 2019.
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Toronto needs help dealing with legalized marijuana next year
Drugs cost money. This is a universal truth: whether it’s the legal kind like alcohol or tobacco, or the banned stuff like cocaine or heroin, or, for now, marijuana, a habit is going to take a chunk...
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Our health care system can do better
When it came to people’s access to health care, Canada was judged the second worst in the developed world
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