June Callwood watches over Cathy Crowe as she delivers the fifth annual June Callwood Lecture. Cathy Crowe remembers June Callwood as “a real doer.” Crowe (a community health nurse) met Callwood (a journalist-cum-activist) when Crowe was new to her job and assigned to volunteer at Nellie’s, helping with the shelter’s Sunday dinner. A single mother, [...]

They're baaa-aaaaaack! Or, well—they never actually went away.

Photo by tapesonthefloor from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. So, are there bedbugs camping out for TIFF at the Scotiabank Theatre? According to owners Cineplex Entertainment, who conducted a “thorough investigation overnight” on Monday, no. At 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday, the company issued this statement, passed to Torontoist by Global News: Late yesterday afternoon, Cineplex contracted [...]

Photo by stevenharris. On Monday afternoon, a rumour started circulating on Twitter, to the effect that someone—nobody was saying who—had left the Scotiabank Theatre with bedbug bites. For the multi-screen theatre, the timing couldn’t be worse: the Scotiabank is one of the venues for the Toronto International Film Festival, which begins next Thursday. The rumour [...]

Two members of the Parkdale Tenants Association hold signs at the rally. Lots of people hate their landlords, but it wouldn’t occur to most of these unhappy tenants to take a bus across town, to their landlord’s corporate headquarters, in order to shout at them from the sidewalk through a loudspeaker. And yet that’s exactly [...]

Toronto councillor Paula Fletcher wants Toronto Public Health to officially categorize bedbugs as a “health hazard,” as opposed to their current status, “nuisance,”—that’s not a joke; “nuisance” is apparently the official term—after our dear city has seen a recent upsurge in the pests. And for all you folks living in highrises, don’t get too smug, [...]