The Toronto Star's Tess Kalinowski reports on condo prices in the downtown core.

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The Toronto Star's Alex Ballingall reports about the problems at the new Aura condo tower.

Jim McNally lives 77 storeys above Yonge St. Through his floor-to-ceiling windows he looks down on Queen’s Park and the University of Toronto, and on a clear day he can spot distant planes on the tarmac at Pearson. The family physician says he put “all his ( Read more... )

NOW Toronto's Robert Allsopp fears for the future eof Yonge Street as a dynamic urban streetscape.

Downtown Yonge Street isn't what it used to be ( Read more... )

At Torontoist, Jamie Bradburn's Historicist feature looks at the St. Charles Tavern's transition from cocktail lounge through Chinese restaurant to gay bar.

“Meet me under the clock”-for several decades, it was the slogan of the St. Charles Tavern. While it began in the early 1950s as a cocktail lounge owned by a prominent local horse breeder, the ( Read more... )

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Published before Orlando massacre, Chris Bateman's Torontoist article looks at the historical significance of one Portuguese-Canadian boy's murder in 1977, for Toronto's GLBTQ communities and for Yonge Street.

The murder of Emanuel Jaques stunned the city in August 1977. Police handout ( Read more... )