Prime Minister Stephen Harper shook hands with Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on Sunday signifying the federal government’s support for the city’s Scarborough subway extension plan. No specific information was announced in regards to the federal government’s funding towards the project until Monday when federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty confirmed... Read more
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty confirmed the federal government’s support of the Scarborough subway expansion today at a press conference. The promise is supported by the $660 million that will be provided for the city to fund the project. Read more
Where the Truck can they go?

The recently started pilot project for food trucks in Toronto is now allowing the city streets to become friendlier for these mobile businesses.

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In the parking lot of the Toronto's Sony Centre, groups of people stand and eat while others mill from one brightly coloured food truck to the next.

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Food Trucking in Vegan Style

Cindy Thomson and her husband Chase, run karma ChaMEALeon, Ontario’s only vegan food truck.

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Despite the fact they are not 'bricks and mortar' businesses, health and safety regulations for Toronto's food trucks are on-par with their permanent site counterparts.

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Headed West – jobs in the oil and gas industry

The cost of gas isn’t the only thing going up in Canada’s oil industry, the rush to get rich quick is also steadily on the rise.

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“SaveCanada began as a one-off action in North Bay, Ontario where the [pipeline] route goes through the municipal drinking water source for 54,000 people, in a pipeline built over a generation ago for a different purpose,” SaveCanada spokesperson Yan Roberts said in an email.

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Game of drones

The word ‘drone might conjure images of covert special-ops in Afghanistan, but unmanned aerial vehicles — or UAVs — are actually being used here at home for everything from mapping to tracking wildlife populations.

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Photographs were taken by: Nabeela Hashimi, Alison Greco & Jake English

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