Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'peelregion'
November 23, 2007
It’s an exciting time to get sick in Brampton. With the opening of the highly hyped Brampton Civic Hospital, Canada’s first “superhospital,” people living in the Peel Region can go through dialysis, give birth, and get a biopsy (though hopefully not all at once) with greater ease and comfort than before. What makes this place so special? According to Gillian Williams McClean, the Director of Communications and Marketing, this is the most technologically integrated......
Continue Reading "It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's Superhospital!"December 15, 2006
Amazingly, Maher Arar is still on the US government's terrorist watchlist. No, seriously. No joke. He's still on it. Metro police place three closed circuit cameras around Dundas Square for the holidays. Remember, nothing deters criminals determined to shoot at people in the busiest intersection in Toronto like cameras. Ontario Hydro's combined costs have risen 50 percent in five years; during the same time period revenues have increased only 15 percent. At the press......
Continue Reading "Arar Still Watched, Yonge and Dundas Will Be Watched, and Hooray For The World's Tallest Man!"November 30, 2006
Sorry, kids, you’re gonna have to put your bathing suits back in the drawer for a century or so. Environmental organization Sierra Legal has released its first ever Great Lakes Sewage Report Card, and while the sewage is doing well, the lakes are not. The report rates 20 cities around the Great Lakes on how well they manage their sewage, and the results are not encouraging. In spite of multiple highly-publicized clean up programs since......
Continue Reading "Sure It Stinks, But Think Of The Convenience! Great Lakes Declared One Big Toilet"April 7, 2006
The jury deliberating on the Lisa Posluns case was withheld some very gruesome evidence on the history of accused rapist/murderer Nelson DeJesus. The Star has the details here, and the Sun doesn't get left behind either. Members of Toronto's Chinese community protested over Rogers' attempts to bring a number of stations owned by the Chinese government to Canada. The protesters argue that the stations are propaganda, Rogers argues that they're merely trying to serve the......
Continue Reading "Kitties in Condos, Protesting Chinese TV and More on Queen West Condos"