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Wexford Heights

There's a village in that stripmall: a slideshow and essay wandering Wexford's main strip

Bert Archer Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Wexford used to be a village and though now found in the middle of Scarborough, it still is, but it might not look like you expect it to. Part of our series on neighbourhood strips, take a tour of a Wexford stripmall with Yonge Street's Bert Archer and Tanja Tiziana in words and pictures.
A Different Booklist

A Different Booklist at Bloor and Bathurst is the independent bookstore that keeps going

Rea McNamara Wednesday, July 14, 2010
A Different Booklist is one independent bookstore that's flourishing by being a community centre for Toronto's Caribbean diaspora.
Neighbourwoods

A city in a forest -- the business of Toronto's urban forest is growing

Paul Gallant Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Interest in Toronto's urban forest is booming, and so are the businesses involved in taking care of it as new programs and companies sprout up all around the GTA.
Church Street

The evolution of Toronto's Church Street Gaybourhood -- a photo slideshow and essay

Bert Archer Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Church Street sure was in the news this past week. Let's revisit Yonge Street's investigation of Church that ran a year ago by Bert Archer and Tanja-Tiziana. For decades the street has been the centre of the region's gay and lesbian communities, but as the rest of the city becomes more gay and gay-friendly, what does that mean for the Church Street Strip?
Beyond 3:30

Where art and architecture meet: the Beyond 3:30 mural program turns schools into canvases

Paul Gallant Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Beyond 3:30, an after school program introducing preteens to architecture and art, turns schools into community hubs and hopes to get a whole new generation of kids thinking about architecture as a career, especially young women.
John Kiru of TABIA

Q&A with TABIA's John Kiru on Toronto's Best Export: the BIA

Edward Keenan Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Toronto's Bloor West Village Business Improvement Area recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. A world's first in 1970, BIAs have since spread across the city, country and around the world. The Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas' John Kiru explains how the idea started and spread.
Eduardo Castro

Eduardo Castro takes care of Toronto's mental and civic health, one person at a time

Paul Gallant Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Eduardo Castro's work with youth, mental health and addiction is all about building long-term relationships and his recent appointment to the Toronto Board of Health is his latest achievement in his civic-minded career.
Co-working at Camaraderie

Have laptop will travel: coworking spaces are the new home offices in Toronto

Carla Lucchetta Wednesday, May 26, 2010
As Toronto's self-employed laptop-lugging workforce grows, new coworking spaces like Camaraderie in St. Lawrence Market give independent workers a place to be around colleagues and cure their cabin fever.
Monkey Vault

Monkey Business

Jaclyn Law Wednesday, May 05, 2010
After years of dodging security guards and watching their sport go into hibernation each winter, Toronto's parkour community has found a place to crash - literally - at The Monkey Vault, athlete-entrepreneur Dan Iaboni's new gym-playground hybrid.
Jo Altilia

Regent Park reading: A Q&A with Jo Altilia

Julia Belluz Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Jo Altilia founded Literature for Life in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood and is fostering both a love of reading and a sense of leadership and capability in young mothers.
Bathurst Street slideshow

Bathurst Street's gorgeous bones in words and pictures

Bert Archer Wednesday, April 28, 2010
In the first of our series looking at some of Toronto's evolving neighbourhood strips, Yonge Street's Bert Archer and Tanja-Tiziana Burdi explore the changing face of Bathurst Street. Along the way they found good buildings and a linear community of entrepreneurs that keeps the strip together.
Salon Camden

Q&A with Azmi Haq, the Conversation Starter

Julia Belluz Wednesday, April 28, 2010
When Azmi Haq arrived in Toronto from Pakistan he found people here a little too polite, so to get people chatting about the city and country, frankly and openly, he started Salon Camden in his home. Here, he shares his thoughts on conversation and the immigrant experience in Toronto.
Ruby Watchco

Chef Lynn's Place

Ivy Knight Wednesday, April 14, 2010
She's chased pigs through manure and cooked at the Four Seasons. Now celebrity chef Lynn Crawford has returned to Toronto from New York to open her new neighbourhood place, Ruby Watchco, on Queen East.
Dubbeldam Design Architects

The entrepreneurial architect

Heidi McKenzie Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Heather Dubbeldam left the safety of one of Canada's premier architecture firms to follow her own path and start an independent and expanding green design company.
Queen East's, Liloo

Liloo's commitment to neighbourhood on Queen East

Piali Roy Wednesday, March 31, 2010
What happens when a retailer sets up shop in an up-and-coming neighbourhood only to find the area is not quite ready for prime time? For Liloo's co-owners Sapna Alim and Amanda Steele the answer was simple: rely on a whole lot of neighbourliness.
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