Sara Swain

Let's keep this momentum going

The Growlers are iced out. Development is on Fire. Volunteers are celebrated. Neurodiversity is embraced, and so is mixed-use. Poetry is shared. O’Leary Avenue gets artsy. 

Affordable housing coming to Hamilton Ave. and Bennett Ave. and bedsitting rooms at the HUB. Plus: a new design manual to help developers get it right the first time.

Froude’s gone but not forgotten. A ghost kitchen haunts Springdale Street. Decisions about collisions. A new fourplex brings change to University Avenue. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library comes to town.

Toilets are the talk of the town this week, just not in chambers. Excitement about a big shiny apartment building. Housing may not trickle down, but raw sewage does, and the Goulds is finally getting theirs treated. A water tax loophole is closed. And wetlands are open for assessment. 

Students ask Mayor Breen the tough questions. National Housing Day looms. Trails are expanding in a round-about way. Ignore the mace, but mind your road rage ahead of those holiday parades.

Willow Kean talks about the pleasures and politics of sharing meals with friends–and the surprising practicalities of actors eating on stage

In The Legacy Song Project, Sarah McInnis doesn’t just see you and hear you, she also sings you. 

This Nurse Practitioner practices the values that she preaches. It’s time for all of us to do the same.

In Tukien (Awaken), painter Nelson White invites us to open our eyes to the people bringing unique vibrance to modern Indigenous identity.