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Recent land use changes mean sleepy, residential Dovercourt will be transformed by its new “major street” status, paving the way for higher, denser multiplexes and more commercial space. One architect calls it the European-style solution that “Toronto is craving”.
Read MoreThe superstar Onondaga runner trained hard at the Dovercourt Y in the dramatic leadup to his Boston Marathon victory.
Read MoreCharles has been a resident of the Toronto Zoo since 1974. Here’s what he has for lunch.
Read MoreAs we near the large plot of grass on the south side of Geary Avenue just before it reaches Dovercourt Road, Rio begins wagging his tail and pulling on the leash. It’s here he gets to chase his ball. And then, when he’s tired of that, he’ll explore and sniff the tangled white and yellow yarrow at the property’s south perimeter, adjacent to the train tracks. Rio’s a condo-living dog, and if he has anything like a backyard, this is it.
Read MoreA neighbourhood fixture since 1952, the Chinese-Canadian restaurant South Pacific still serves the classics, a style of cooking they call “humble and joyful”.
Read MoreDJ and organizer Sanjeet Takhar explains why a DIY mindset is the system-shattering love bomb the Toronto arts scene needs.
Read MoreIn Haldimand County, there are several unregistered burial sites where Black freedom-seekers are resting. And some are becoming the centre of a movement to have them reclaimed and protected. In this WEP exclusive, Daysha Loppie explores critical questions being raised about how we deliver our duty to the dead, and how cities can better plan around their history.
Read MoreWe asked a few of our favourite music lovers to tell us their most epic summer concert story.
Read MoreAt Taqueria el Pastorcito, Irapuato-style tacos are served alongside music from Los Aventureros, a four-piece mariachi band, if you stop in on the right night.
Read MoreWe asked sports aficionados to name their favourite of all time. Here, we present their winning pick and what they had to say about 24 notable runners-up.
Read MoreIn the age of streaming, Eyesore Cinema is building a business and a growing community around a rental-DVD shop.
Read MoreKensington Market’s family-run CAAM United Hardware is marking 40 years in business.
Read MorePhotographer and multimedia artist Martin Reis has a knack for making art that captures the city’s attention. He donned a referee uniform to hand out yellow and red cards to drivers blocking crosswalks and installed colourful Lego installations that bring whimsy and interaction to city infrastructure. His “interventions,” as he refers to these guerrilla-style art projects, ask us to think about the type of city we want Toronto to be.
Read MoreA decade ago, Toronto tried something new, transferring vulnerable individuals picked up by the cops to a “situation table” of community workers, in order to tend to people in crisis within a day or two. On its 10-year anniversary, Xavier Richer Vis reports on how the program, called FOCUS, has “changed the game,” radically improving outcomes in delicate cases.
Read MoreAt Xawaash, a Somali food blog-turned-restaurant, owners Leila Adde and Abdullahi Kassim consider their dishes a legacy for the next generation. “It makes us feel very happy, you know. That this has become a gathering place. Because for us, this isn’t just a business. It’s more like family.”
Read MoreTwo-time mayoral candidate, policy analyst and firebrand Chloe Brown was raised near Islington and Finch and has fond memories of growing up in Rexdale. She chats with Stacy Lee Kong about community and civic duty, where the neighbourhood’s political leadership fails and why it all comes back to food.
Read MoreWoodbine Mall is in receivership. As its retailers and its once great attraction, the Fantasy Fair, limp toward the finish line, Kunal Chaudhary visits for one last roundabout and remembers what the mall once meant to him.
Read MoreBilbo isn't afraid to show her many sides, and on the afternoon I met her, I saw two of them. She greeted me with curiosity, rubbing her head against my hand, but later, when I went to pet her goodbye, she swung a set of claws at me to let me know I was dismissed.
Read More“Glimmer is a word that I was recently re-introduced to, as a way of describing the little joys in life. In a shifting city, I know they are not always easy to find. Which is why sometimes, you kind of have to make them yourself. Do you know how?..”
Read MoreSometimes it feels like I’m navigating through a palliative care unit that has one patient – the city. North and south of where I live in Bloordale, there are towering cranes and cement trucks, the protective canopy of scaffolding over a sidewalk, debris screens.
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