At the Unviersity of Toronto at Mississauga's newspaper The Medium< Sabiha Shah discusses a recent lecture by Anishinaabe artist Susan Blight talking about ways Toronto can better engage with its living First Nation heritage.

Last Tuesday, Susan Blight delivered Hart House’s annual Hancock Lecture, titled “Land and Life in Tkaronto: New ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star carries May Warren's article for Metro noting an upcoming gallery showing in Mississauga celebrating the life of that city's long-time mayor Hazel McCallion. I may well go to Mississauga for this!

She has inspired paintings, crayon drawings, even a Mississauga version of the Mona Lisa ( Read more... )

The Globe and Mail's Oliver Moore describes a proposal by Pearson Airport to make the area of Toronto's international airport a transit hub for the Greater Toronto Area generally, Toronto and Mississauga and beyond.

The pitch from the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, backed by politicians from the region, comes amid a growing sales job for ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's San Grewal looks at how Mississauga will be growing--growing up?--this year.

Mississauga is on a roll. An unprecedented number of mega-projects are moving forward. The diverse city is finally addressing thorny issues related to inclusiveness. And multi-national corporations continue to eye the GTA’s second-largest city when ( Read more... )

The Globe and Mail's Sean Fine looks at the controversy surrounding the refusal Peel Regional Police Chief Jennifer Evans to stop the much-criticized--justly much-criticized, I think--policy of carding.

She started as a 19-year-old cadet with Peel Regional Police and grew up in the force. But, by her own account, the most important moments in the ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's San Grewal looks at how an early 19th century land grant in Mississauga is going to be the basis for a massive new park in Mississauga.

Smack in the middle of Mississauga, just north of its shimmering new skyline, sits 200 acres of fenced-in, desolate land entrusted to the local education system in 1833 by King William IV of ( Read more... )

The Globe and Mail's Mike Hager notes that Ontario's Peel Region, including among other municipalities Mississauga, has abandoned the exact sort of homebuyer loan program that British Columbia is set to adopt.

As British Columbia plans to roll out interest-free loans to thousands of people seeking to buy their first home, the Peel Region in ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's San Grewal notes the yawning gap in property taxes between Toronto and its western neighbours of Mississauga and Brampton. One implicit argument here is that Toronto could raise them, too, giving it more income--enough to, say, adequately fund mass transit.

The already glaring gap between property taxes in Brampton and ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's San Grewal notes that Peel Regional Police Chief Jennifer Evans is in big trouble.

Peel police chief Jennifer Evans has spent much of the year battling the board that oversees her on issues such as carding, which she refused to stop. Now, with her contract up for renewal next year, and a community restless for change, some close ( Read more... )

This, a Toronto Star article by Jessica Wynne Lockhart, is part of a series on suburban Torotno's woes. I confess that I know so little about these areas. I should know more.

With its brown brick exterior and tidy garden, the 1970s bungalow on Mississauga’s Dixie Road appears unremarkable ( Read more... )