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Scene: Roncy Remembers Tony

WHERE: Roncesvalles Avenue WHEN: Evening of October 18 WHAT: A memorial for Tony Clemens, who passed away on Roncesvalles on October 18 following a recent surgery and a fight with lung cancer, among other health problems. Clemens was a recognizable neighbourhood figure and a source of news and gossip about the street’s tight-knit community through [...]

Toronto’s Polish Community Mourns

On April 10, at 10:56 a.m. Moscow time, a twenty-year-old plane crashed just outside Smolensk, Russia, killing Polish president Lech Kaczynski. While the often controversial president’s death was a tremendous loss to Poland, it was far from the only one. Also among those killed were four undersecretaries of state (Mariusz Handzlik, Andrzej Kremer, Tomasz Merta, [...]

Have A Drink On Barney

Those who frequent the strip of downtown parkettes stretching from Dundonald to Charles Streets have been wondering what happened to the mysterious monument to “Barney.” In autumn, the memorial stone went missing after having been damaged, but has now been reinstated onto its concrete base just off Gloucester Street in the Norman Jewison Parkette. But [...]