11
Sep
2013
By Michael McCann
It was a curious July as it was one of the busiest I have experienced in years. It seems that home buyers did not take a holiday and were continuing to purchase...
05
Sep
2013
Goodbye road cones!
Construction is coming to an end on Kingston Road in the heart of Birch Cliff a little more than five months after the City of Toronto started tearing up the street to...
19
Jul
2013
By Michael McCann
With the summer heat wave came a corresponding but predictable slowdown in Birchcliff/Cliffside's housing market - but only in terms of the number of homes sold.
It seems that once the mercury rises,...
16
Jul
2013
Are those cobblestones? On Kingston Road in Birch Cliff??
Okay, maybe the official term is "decorative pavers". Either way, it's a vast improvement over what was there previously.
Sometimes it's the little things that make a...
15
Jul
2013
It happened without warning.
One year ago today the lives of almost 400 families in Southwest Scarborough were turned upside down when a torrential rainstorm flooded basements with raw sewage and storm water.
“It was a...
14
Jul
2013
By Ron Baldwin
What a fabulous day it was on Saturday July 13th as Wayne Simmonds of the Philadelphia Flyers invited a bunch of his NHL buddies to come to Scarborough Arena Gardens to participate in...
11
Jul
2013
Construction workers on Kingston Road have started digging up fascinating pieces of Birch Cliff’s past - the old streetcar tracks that were laid in 1928.
Large excavators have been rumbling down the centre of the...
06
Jul
2013
By Ian Harvey
Thousands showed despite threatening skies to mingle with Mayor Rob Ford at Thompson Memorial Park Friday night at the first Ford Fest held outside Etobicoke.
Cars were parked on grass right up to...