Smelling of wood chips and with trucks rumbling by full of tree limbs, the former golf range at Gerrard Street and Victoria Park Avenue felt like a sawmill yard last week. Converted into a temporary holding site for waste wood, it is now part of Toronto’s $75 million clean-up from the December ice storm. But […]
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Beach pitches in to meet recycling target
One dairy cow, 11 men, or half a car –by any measure, the average Canadian makes a lot of garbage in a year. But people in Toronto did recycle or compost just over half their household waste in 2013, up from 42 per cent in 2007. Still, while recycling is on the rise, it needs […]
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Citizens for a Safe Environment is sponsoring a Fluoridation Information Meeting at Metro Hall, 55 John St., Thursday, April 19, at 7 p.m. Get the latest information on local and world-wide current and future fluoridation issues from guest speaker Dr. Paul Connett. Seating is limited so it is recommended you RSVP soon to Karen Buck […]
