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Author: Eric McMillan

Detail of memoir cover
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Memoir finds different kinds of buried treasure

February 16, 2021February 22, 2021 Eric McMillan Memoir, review, Sharon Kirsche

Leslieville writer Sharon Kirsch made her experience of searching through a home in Montreal’s Jewish community into a personal memoir.

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Eleanor LeFave at Mabel's Fables
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Mabel’s Fables woes part of city-wide problem, bookstore owner says

March 11, 2020November 24, 2020 Alexei Malakhov and Eric McMillan Eglinton Avenue East, Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Eleanor LeFave, Josh Matlow, Mabel's Fables, Mt. Pleasant Road

Eleanor LeFave says she is not worried the meeting to support Mabel’s Fables was cancelledbecause she knows the community feels strongly.

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Winter Stations preparation
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Smaller Winter Stations art event on the beach intrigues — and mystifies

February 21, 2020February 26, 2020 Eric McMillan Centennial College, Winter Stations

Winter Stations at Woodbine Beach are fewer than usual in number this year but are still drawing attention — and sometimes mystification — from viewers.

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Danforth Study map
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Bike lanes pilot project now part of Danforth Study, open house told

January 30, 2020February 11, 2020 Alexei Malakhov and Eric McMillan bike lanes, Danforth Study, Hanson Street, Monarch Park Collegiate

The city has heard people want a pilot project on Danforth Avenue before a decision is made about bikes lanes, staff said at the open house on Jan. 27.

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Julie Dabrusin at victory party
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No fluke, Liberals hold on to Toronto–Danforth

October 22, 2019October 22, 2019 Eric McMillan Arthur Potts, Craig Scott, Danforth Avenue, federal election, Jack Layton, Julie Dabrusin, Min Sook Lee, Toronto-Danforth

Liberal incumbent Julie Dabrusin took the lead early and cruised to a comfortable victory, winning 47.6 per cent of the vote in Toronto–Danforth last night.

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Downchild on the big screen at jazz festival
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Downchild shuts down Bloor for block party

June 23, 2019October 16, 2019 Eric McMillan Bloor Street, blues, Dan Ackroyd, Downchild Blues Band, Paul Shaffer, TD Toronto Jazz Festival

Toronto musical institution Downchild Blues Band, joined by big-name friends, gave 10,000 fans filling Bloor Street just what they wanted Saturday night.

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Robinson speaks at Don Valley West victory party
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Robinson victorious in expanded Don Valley West

October 23, 2018December 22, 2018 Alexei Malakhov and Eric McMillan Don Valley West, Jaye Robinson, Jon Burnside, Laird Drive, municipal election, Uptown Pub, Yonge Street

Jaye Robinson is now councillor for a ward called Don Valley West that is almost twice as large as the ward she previously represented.

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Difficult People portion of cover
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Stories of Difficult People easy to enjoy

October 15, 2018October 16, 2019 Eric McMillan Catriona Wright, literature, short stories

With their offbeat personalities, horrid situations and entertaining writing, Difficult People contains some of the most engaging new stories.

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Bretnwood Towers ribbon cutting
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Community space opened at Brentwood Towers

September 14, 2018September 24, 2018 Eric McMillan Brentwood Towers, Josh Matlow, Lascelles Boulevard

The Brentwood Towers community of 2,000 residents opened its first indoor amenity room on Sept. 11 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony

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Column VIEWS 

Murder mystery connects Canadian lit with Nordic noir

June 11, 2018October 16, 2019 Eric McMillan Lindstrom Alone

LIndstrom Alone reads like an author’s foray into the distinctively Scandinavian murder mystery sub-genre.

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Frozen cast
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An intimate evening with a serial killer

May 31, 2018October 16, 2019 Eric McMillan Artscape Wychwood Barns, b current, Frozen

Watching Frozen at the tiny, intimate b current theatre is like viewing close-up magic in the hands of a master prestidigitator.

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Yes I Can future in doubt
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Yes we can: School’s hopes lift with financial lifeline

April 3, 2018April 3, 2018 Eric McMillan autism, Janet MacDougall, Kathleen Wynne, nursery school, Old York Mills Road, Yes I Can, Yonge Street

On March 7 when Yes I Can nursery school called a meeting of staff and parents it was to publicly announce the North Toronto institution was closing by month end — but in April classes are continuing, thanks to a business group offering help.

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Lear
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Musical comedy updates Shakespeare featuring Donald J. Lear

March 17, 2018October 16, 2019 Eric McMillan Donald Trump, North Toronto Players, Papermill Theatre, Todmorden Mills

The brilliant idea of the North Toronto Players is to update the tragedy of King Lear by replacing the king with a figure based on Donald J. Trump.

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No Time to Bury Them cover detail
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No time for nuance in thrilling Yukon action novel

November 27, 2017November 28, 2017 Eric McMillan Mark C. Eddy

The Yukon was a frontier of fast riches, sudden death, rampant crime and dog-eat-dog survival — as portrayed in Mark C. Eddy’s No Time to Bury Them.

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Yogalates studio
Business 

It’s yoga! It’s pilates! It’s…yogalates!

September 11, 2017October 2, 2017 Eric McMillan exercise, Millwood Road, Pilates, Yoga

Christina Bothwell has invented a new line of exercises to set off her new yoga and pilates studio from other exercise places. It’s called “yogalates.”

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That was then.

Empringham Hotel 1903
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From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020February 6, 2023 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danforth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

Queen and Waverley 1903
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Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan
Beltline bridge over Yonge Street ion 1915
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When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan
Yonge-Eglinton southeast
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Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

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