Developers RioCan bought the parking lot at the corner of Queen Street West and Portland back in 2005. Immediately, rumours started to circulate that a big box store, like Home Depot, was going to be built at the site. At the time, The Globe and Mail reported that RioCan planned to start building in 2007. Which is now. So what's happening with the project? In August 2006, Spacing Wire reported that activists had met......

...need to know the latest bridge strategies. Businesses rushed to latch onto hippies during the "Summer of Love" as their next target market, if only to convince squarer clientele of how their product swung with the times (and there was a lot of swinging going on within the pages of Toronto Life's first half-decade). The pair on the right appears to be part of a Velvet Underground-style band—he with Sterling Morrison/Andy Warhol pockmarked skin,......

Meet Mike Long: musician, 1" button entrepreneur, "social rocktivist" and public dancer. Mike only discovered he could dance six months ago and, soon after, started posting videos of his sweet moves on the internet. In the two days following his first YouTube post, he received over 100 emails from fans (and haters) and a star was born. Public dancing is now Mike's full-time summer job—he accepts donations and has sponsorship from Larabar, a company......

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