Streeter

Streeter

News, Views & Things To Do in Our Neighbourhoods

  • Home
  • NEWS
  • THINGS TO DO
  • VIEWS
  • Daily Updates in Your Community >
    • The Beach Daily Updates
    • Cabbagetown Daily Updates
    • East Danforth Daily Updates
    • East York Daily Updates
    • Leslieville Daily Updates
    • Riverdale Daily Updates
    • Upper Beaches Daily Updates

Greg Hamara

NEWS 

Knowledge essential when looking to fight development

August 22, 2012 Town Crier staff development, Greg Hamara, planning, Regulations, Sarah Doucette, Ward 13

A Town Crier Community Column

Read more
NEWS 

Book store closing sign of local decline

March 6, 2012March 22, 2019 Town Crier staff Bloor West Village, Book City, bookstore, Greg Hamara, small business

The news came suddenly, but it wasn’t entirely shocking. The venerable Book City store in Bloor West Village is closing

Read more
NEWS 

Rejection of proposal a monumental move

January 5, 2012 Town Crier staff Green Space, Greg Hamara, High Park, High Park Advisory Group, Holodomor, Lesia Ukrainyka, Monuments, Sarah Doucette, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Ukrainian Canadian Congress

There are too few public spaces in Toronto and a deficit of monuments, sculptures and artwork to punctuate those we

Read more
NEWS 

Debates ain't what they used to be

October 4, 2011 Town Crier staff all-candidates debate, Greg Hamara, Parkdale-High Park, provincial election

Maybe it was the weather that night (lousy). Maybe it was candidate boredom (appearing in their seventh debate of this

Read more
NEWS 

Road redo a good start, but a missed opportunity

July 28, 2011 Town Crier staff construction, Greg Hamara, road repairs

The good news is that the job won’t take nearly as long to complete as what businesses suffered through when

Read more
NEWS 

Board should learn from former trustee and teach local history

June 30, 2011 Town Crier staff Greg Hamara, Local History, Madeline McDowell, Toronto District School Board

The area was once known as the neighbourhood of Runnymede; Jane Street was called the 5th Concession Road and, from

Read more
NEWS 

Columnist off-centre with election critique

May 31, 2011 Town Crier staff First-Past-the-Post, Greg Hamara, Voting

Re: , May 2011 While criticizing our existing voting system, Greg Hamara makes it clear he wants a government loaded

Read more
NEWS 

Re-opening of local movie theatre deserves our support

May 31, 2011 Town Crier staff art, Greg Hamara, Humber Odeon, Runnymede Theatre

There was a time in Ontario when a local movie theatre anchored the heart of every village. Even in a

Read more
NEWS 

Time to ditch first-past-the-post system

May 11, 2011 Town Crier staff First-Past-the-Post, Greg Hamara, Proportional Represe

Compared with our European allies, Canada is a deadbeat democracy — and that’s no commentary on the flat flavour of

Read more
NEWS 

No cookie-cutter when it comes to neighbourhood groups in West Toronto

February 25, 2011 Town Crier staff Greg Hamara

It’s unlikely the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau had residents’ associations foremost in mind when he coined his memorable phrase

Read more
NEWS 

Public discourse is necessary, but let’s not get carried away

January 31, 2011 Town Crier staff Greg Hamara, Sarah Doucette, town hall

They’ve been around for almost 300 years, but their value as a symbol of public engagement appears greater than ever.

Read more
NEWS 

Have you got the gift of the gab? Debate

December 26, 2010June 22, 2014 Greg Hamara debate, Greg Hamara, Swansea

Spend an evening or two watching society members in action, debating at an admirable level at Swansea Town Hall

Read more

Our communities

Streeter News, Views and Things To Do are selected from neighbourhoods across Toronto. For local news only, see our community pages:

     • The Beach

     • Cabbagetown

     • East Danforth

     • East York

     • Leslieville

     • Riverdale

     • Upper Beaches

This is a work in progress, and we are adding more communities and more features daily. Check back for news, views and things to do in your neighbourhood.

That was then.

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

WHAT IS STREETER?

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
Copyright © 2023 Streeter. All rights reserved.
  ·   Log in