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Ingrid Buday, founder of the group No More Noise Toronto, says her launch into pro-quiet activism came during the pandemic, when the emptier-than-normal streets near her west-end home started to sound like a nightly drag race.The whine of racing motorcycles and the growl of illegally modified mufflers, echoing off nearby underpasses, left her so sleep-deprived she was unable to return to her job in IT as COVID-19 restrictions were lifted.
January 18, 2025 - 08:00 | Jeff Gray | The Globe and Mail
Fifty years ago, the Art Gallery of Ontario decided to go big. Its major expansion featured a top Canadian architect, John C. Parkin, and a star of contemporary art – the sculptor Henry Moore.Now the gallery has started constructing another new wing, the $100-million Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery by Selldorf Architects, Diamond Schmitt and Two Row, which will increase its gallery space by 40,000 square feet, or about a third. The AGO’s leadership is taking the occasion to look back at its Moore collection, and the bold moves that remade the museum and the city of Toronto.
January 18, 2025 - 08:00 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
Deep Saini was days away from unveiling a signature initiative to boost French proficiency at McGill University when a contact in the Quebec government quietly warned the school’s new president he might not have the money for it.A few days later, in early October of 2023, the government fired a policy torpedo in his direction. It announced it would hike tuition for Canadian students from outside Quebec, require 80 per cent of graduates to achieve intermediate French fluency and redistribute a portion of McGill’s sizable international tuition revenue elsewhere in the system.
January 18, 2025 - 08:00 | Joe Friesen | The Globe and Mail
Re: The ByWard Market needs to be fixed, Jan. 12 Read More
January 18, 2025 - 07:01 | Peter Hum | Ottawa Citizen
David Matlow of Toronto has acquired the world’s largest collection of memorabilia of the father of modern political Zionism, now on tour
January 18, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
It has now been over two years and three budgets since Mark Sutcliffe has taken the reins at Ottawa City Hall and every year since we have been promised the same thing: "The transit money is coming." Read More
January 18, 2025 - 07:00 | Peter Hum | Ottawa Citizen
