06
Sep
2012
By Jim McKenzie
Ernie is 67. He lives alone in a sparse subsidized apartment.
The rent for his small one bedroom flat eats up more than 80% of his pension cheque.
Add to that his monthly bills...
05
Sep
2012
Toronto Police report a grisly discovery in the waters near Bluffer's Park.
Police say a suitcase containing human remains was pulled out of Lake Ontario.
It was discovered by boaters who opened the suitcase and called...
05
Sep
2012
Toronto Water was not surprised to be inundated with phone calls after the July 15th rainstorm that flooded hundreds of Scarborough homes with raw sewage because officials knew that half a dozen “fixes” needed...
02
Sep
2012
Just a heads up that Ward 35 - next door to Birch Cliff - is holding its flooding meeting this coming Thursday at 6pm at Warden Hilltop Community Centre at Mendelssohn Street. The meeting...
31
Aug
2012
Imagine a time when a Birch Cliff home cost $5,200, was heated by coal, and the phone number was Oxford 1-9830.
Those are just some of the insights into what our neighbourhood was like 70...
30
Aug
2012
Six weeks after hundreds of homes flooded in Birch Cliff and other parts of Ward 36, Variety Village has stepped forward to say it also flooded July 15th and August 10th and sustained more...
29
Aug
2012
Here's a fabulous photo depicting the transition from radial cars to buses in Scarborough.
It's 1936 and workers are removing the radial car tracks while a bus passes by in the foreground.
Electric radial cars started...
28
Aug
2012
There's construction chaos on Blantyre Avenue as city crews race to get the road in shape in time for the first day of school.
City of Toronto workers are repaving the road, rebuilding the sidewalks, curbs...