Toronto Business
Fraud to end Toronto transit tickets
TORONTO, June 12 (UPI) -- Counterfeit transit tickets are costing the Toronto Transit Commission as much as $400,000 per month and abolishing tickets is being considered.
Lundin Mining to shift head office to Toronto
TORONTO, June 11 (Reuters) - Lundin Mining plans to move its head office to Toronto, Ontario from Vancouver, British Columbia, the Canadian company's chief executive said on Wednesday.
Waterfront Agency To Review Gardiner Demolition Plan
The Gardiner Expressway will be back under the microscope Thursday as an agency that wants to remove part of the highway looks at its proposed plans.
Taxi fares on the rise in Toronto
The price of taking a taxi in Toronto is almost sure to go up after the city's licensing committee approved a rate increase Friday.
Grandview Mobilized Reconnaissance Teams to GEM-GVG-Grand Group in Highly Prospective Rice Lake Gold District
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jun 06, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) ----Grandview Gold Inc. (TSX: GVX)(OTCBB: GVGDF) ("Grandview" or the "Company") is pleased to report that the company mobilized geological field crews to its Rice Lake Properties (the "Proper...
Hargrove heads to Detroit to meet with GM brass
Buzz Hargrove is heading to Detroit for what is expected to be a heated meeting with General Motors Friday.
T.O. mayor backs plan to remove part of Gardiner
Toronto's Gardiner Expressway should be torn down east of Jarvis Street, a move that would revitalize the city's waterfront, says a proposal backed by Mayor David Miller.
Soaring gasoline bill no big deal, Toronto says
Soaring gasoline prices could cost Toronto more than half a million dollars this year - but the city maintains it's no big deal.
WestJet flies into Toronto for Just For Laughs Festival...and gee, are our arms tired!
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - May 27, 2008) - WestJet (TSX:WJA) today announced its renewed sponsorship of Just For Laughs Toronto Festival, this year as presenting sponsor. The Just For Laughs Toronto Festival runs from July 23 to 27, 2008.
Medical research could cure job woes
Medicine should be used to help cure Toronto's economic woes, the head of the city's largest hospital system says.
T.O. paying record prices to ship trash to Michigan
As Toronto motorists pay record prices for gasoline, the city is also paying record prices to haul its garbage across the border. The contract the city has to send garbage trucks rumbling along Highway 401 and down to Michigan includes a clause ba...
Historical building to take part in Doors Open before Leon's takes over
Toronto - Torontonians may get their last chance this year to see the CPR John Street Roundhouse in its entirety before Leon's takes over.
City to Pass Gas Cost onto Taxpayers
A new warning about the rising price of gas and this time even Torontonians who don't own cars will be hit. The mounting gas costs for the city will soon be passed on to taxpayers.
Wanted: Organic farmers to fill Toronto's markets
Today marks the opening of the second season of the Don Valley's Brick Works Farmers' Market and the Green Barn, which is still in its temporary location in a church parking lot near Wychwood Avenue.
Toronto bucks trend with homemade tourists
While tourism in other parts of the country appears to be struggling as fewer Americans make the trip north, the industry's boosters in Canada's largest city insist Toronto is bucking the trend and making up for the decrease by attracting more vis...
Last week I raised a couple of concerns about a recent Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) report that had a positive forecast for Toronto's condominium market (see No Crash Expected for Toronto's Condo Market: CMHC). I invited CMHC's ...
Brinker to open Chili's locations in Toronto area
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Restaurant operator Brinker International Inc. on Tuesday said it agreed to open five Chili's Grill & Bar restaurants in the southwestern part of the Toronto metropolitan area.
Regulator restricts Porter's Big Apple plans
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is ordering Porter Airlines to scrap four of its 14 daily flights between Toronto and Newark, N.J., rejecting the upstart's argument that a scaled-down schedule would violate the U.S.-Canada open skies pact.
Ideas to sell Toronto to tourists
Adam Wetstein spends many Sundays at Union Station greeting visitors, dispensing local wisdom, suggesting where they might visit, where to stay, what attractions to see. He hears it from tourists.
Toronto lands huge convention
Toronto has landed its largest-ever convention – a meeting of 25,000 American architects in 2017 that could fill up to 40 hotels. And Tourism Toronto is enlisting Brampton comedian Russell Peters to try to lure even more big conventions in the fut...