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Author: Eric McMillan

Column VIEWS 

Mysteries and history lessons from a comatose teen

January 4, 2017October 16, 2019 Eric McMillan John Moss, The Girl in a Coma

John Moss’s latest, The Girl in a Coma, may be written for adolescents but this unusual mystery novel had me at its first lines.

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Yes I Can director Janet MacDougall
NEWS 

Yes I Can school makes public plea

December 1, 2016April 2, 2018 Eric McMillan autism, Kathleen Wynne, Yes I Can Nursery School

Yes I Can director Janet MacDougall says she can’t get anyone at the provincial government to listen to the plight of her school.

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Column VIEWS 

Native science fiction looks back and to the future

September 20, 2016October 16, 2019 Eric McMillan Drew Hayden Taylor, science fiction

Why has no one thought of science fiction from an aboriginal perspective before? After all, First Nations have actually had the first contact experience.

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NEWS 

Car crashes into Sunnybrook Plaza store

January 2, 2016May 3, 2017 Eric McMillan accident, York Taps

The entire front of the home decor store was smashed in by a car that had apparently failed to park safely in the Sunnybrook Plaza parking lot.

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Column VIEWS 

Going over the Falls, laughing all the way

October 26, 2015October 16, 2019 Eric McMillan East Side Players, Papermill Theatre, Todmorden Mills

I spent the intermission for Wonder of the World trying to come up with a phrase to describe the performance of lead actress Kearsten Johansson.

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Column VIEWS 

Four-handed crowd pleaser

May 24, 2015October 16, 2019 Eric McMillan East Side Players, Papermill Theatre

REVIEW Quartet, by Ronald Harwood directed by Jan Francies, The Papermill Theatre at Todmorden Mills, running to June 6. If you’ve seen

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Column VIEWS 

Speaking to the human condition

February 24, 2015October 16, 2019 Eric McMillan East Side Players, Papermill Theatre

Speaking in Tongues doesn’t speak to everyone. It’s a challenging play, not the usual comforting community theatre fare, and to judge by the tepid audience response on a recent wintry evening, not everyone is up for the challenge.

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Column VIEWS 

The four steps to a hilarious evening

October 28, 2014October 16, 2019 Eric McMillan East Side Players, Papermill Theatre

Of all the versions of The 39 Steps I’ve viewed and read, I have to say I most enjoyed the play now running at The Papermill Theatre.

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Column VIEWS 

Graphic look at a not-so-ordinary Toronto upbringing

October 22, 2014October 16, 2019 Eric McMillan Velvet Haney

When she started writing her memoir, Velvet Haney found the result flat and one-dimensional. Emulating another writer of family dramas, she decided to go the graphic route. Despite a lack of the seemingly requisite drawing skills, her efforts made the story come to life.

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Editorial VIEWS 

Thanks and no thanks, Toronto

October 17, 2014October 24, 2014 Eric McMillan municipal elections

It’s doubtful during Thanksgiving any of us expressed heartfelt gratitude for our current election race in Toronto. But there are reasons we should be happy with the current campaign.

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Business 

Sobeys expands at Laird and Wicksteed

September 15, 2014September 15, 2014 Eric McMillan John Carmichael, John Parker, Sobeys

Store manager Joe Hastie cuts the ribbon to open the expanded Sobeys at 8 a.m. on Sept. 12.

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NEWS 

Tears and anger at Millwood and McRae

July 18, 2014September 2, 2014 Eric McMillan Georgia Walsh, traffic fatality

Some with anger, some with sadness, many with both — Leasiders swarmed over the corners of Millwood Road and McRae Drive on July 17 in memory of Georgia Walsh, who had been killed by a vehicle there 24 hours earlier.

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NEWS 

7-year-old killed in Leaside intersection

July 17, 2014September 2, 2014 Eric McMillan Georgia Walsh, John Walsh, Millwood Road, Toronto Police, traffic fatality

A 7-year-old girl has died after being hit by a vehicle on Millwood Road at McRae Dive in Leaside yesterday afternoon.

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NEWS 

EDITORIAL: Someone needs to get the lead out

June 18, 2014June 29, 2014 Eric McMillan Editorial, Infrastructure, Lead

It killed the ancient Romans. And now it’s killing us? Lead, that is.

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NEWS 

EDITORIAL: Big letdown after food trucks buildup

June 3, 2014June 7, 2014 Eric McMillan Editorial, food trucks

Maybe the fault for the disappointment lies with us — the local media. When it was being proposed the city change its bylaws to allow food trucks to serve their wares by the roadside in midtown Toronto, we didn’t quite see how it would work.

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THAT WAS THEN. This is now.

Empringham Hotel 1903
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020May 5, 2021 Eric McMillan

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

Queen and Waverley 1903
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

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
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan
Yonge-Eglinton southeast
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan
Mt. Pleasant loop being built
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

When building transit was simpler at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton

May 9, 2019November 24, 2020 Eric McMillan
Hay wagons on Yonge Street
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

The days of hay wagons and streetcars on Yonge Street

February 1, 2019February 3, 2019 Eric McMillan
Avoca bridge being torn down
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

The viaduct that brought Moore Park into Toronto

December 1, 2018December 15, 2018 Eric McMillan

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