Mysteries and history lessons from a comatose teen
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 school makes public plea
Yes I Can director Janet MacDougall says she can’t get anyone at the provincial government to listen to the plight of her school.
Read moreNative science fiction looks back and to the future
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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Car crashes into Sunnybrook Plaza store
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.
Read moreGoing over the Falls, laughing all the way
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.
Read moreFour-handed crowd pleaser
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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Speaking to the human condition
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.
Read moreThe four steps to a hilarious evening
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.
Read moreGraphic look at a not-so-ordinary Toronto upbringing
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.
Read moreThanks and no thanks, Toronto
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.
Read moreSobeys expands at Laird and Wicksteed
Store manager Joe Hastie cuts the ribbon to open the expanded Sobeys at 8 a.m. on Sept. 12.
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Tears and anger at Millwood and McRae
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.
Read more7-year-old killed in Leaside intersection
A 7-year-old girl has died after being hit by a vehicle on Millwood Road at McRae Dive in Leaside yesterday afternoon.
Read moreEDITORIAL: Someone needs to get the lead out
It killed the ancient Romans. And now it’s killing us? Lead, that is.
Read moreEDITORIAL: Big letdown after food trucks buildup
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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