Category: Local

Violence at Salsa on St. Clair Hurts Small Businesses

I live 500m from where the shooting occurred. I’ve come to know the owners and staff of many of the restaurants and shops along what is known as Hillcrest Village. Our kids go to school together, we see each other walking dogs, but mostly I’m a patron of the small

Canada immigration

Canada Immigration: The Business of Winning and Losing

Canada’s immigration story is impossible to miss. Whenever I’m at a grocery store in a major Canadian city, there’s a 90% chance I’ll bump into a fellow immigrant—staff and shoppers alike. It’s wild to see how government policy plays out on the ground: from recent arrivals on temporary foreign worker

EMBRACE THE CHILL: GET COZY OUTDOORS IN THE CITY

March is tough. Mentally, it feels like we’ve made it through winter. It should be spring, but we can still get hammered with minus temps into the double digits. Not to mention that windchill. The only way to really get through it is to embrace the frigid outdoors. But, here in Toronto, many of us are too deep in the grind to get out of the city to explore the winter wonderlands.