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Tall tales and butter tarts INNER CITY: T.O. IN THE FIRST PERSON Tall tales and butter tarts HEIDI SOPINKA Special to The Globe and Mail May 3, 2008 'Is there a difference between pastry flour and all-purpose?" a greying goateed man asks no one in particular at the Asian-owned food shop...

Filmport has one stage which is huge, or rather, it's tall. It's 49,500 sq ft. Toronto already has one at 40,000 sq ft which is not as tall. It'll be a real plus for Toronto, no question about it. The rest of Filmport's studios are fantastic, purpose built sound stages too, but they are...

Cinespace's studio at 721 Eastern was not yet converted from industrial to film studios when they lost the Queen's Quay studios to Project Symphony / Corus. It was built to replace the loss of Queen's Quay. Kleinburg has standing sets of the White House and as such, is not available, usable...

McGuinty promises new auto assembly plant The same Dalton McGuinty who refused to motivate his government to declare a provincial interest in the SmartCentres fiasco to save the 25,000 film industry jobs jeopardized by the eradication of the film studios. The film industry gets nothing, the...

The world food tour, on foot, on the cheap The world food tour, on foot, on the cheap From Mexico to Israel to Jamaica to Vietnam, Toronto's Kensington Market serves up a culinary feast that even the most budget-minded will love Rebecca Stevenson, Citizen Special Published: Saturday, April...

Has Mr. Ferguson or Mr. Reisman ever stated this categorically? Props to them if they were to sell the property back to Cinespace (for example ;)) and help ensure a healthy future for the film business. If you look at the Toronto film industry as a jigsaw puzzle of a royal crown, Filmport...

The birth of a new hot spot I include this article because Kensington Market's north boundary is College Street, Bathurst on the west side. http://www.thestar.com/living/article/417518 The College and Bathurst area has gotten little love – until now Apr 24, 2008 04:30 AM MATHEW KATZ...

Toronto Film Studios has made it known that they will be vacating the lands at the end of 2008, to occupy the new FilmPort development... http://www.mirror-guardian.com/News/EastYork/article/46647

Film production tends to be somewhat seasonal, the period from early December to March typically being the slowest. Otherwise, speaking in broad terms, most film studio space is booked for nine months of the year, and in use about fourteen hours a day, five to seven days a week.

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Province fails to intervene LESLIEVILLE: SHOPPING MALL DISPUTE Province fails to intervene JAMES RUSK April 23, 2008 The Ontario government has quietly turned down a request by Toronto city council to intervene in a controversial application to build a shopping mall in the old east-end...

Is this not itself an ad hominem toward those in the industry? Rather than refuting their arguments, you're attacking their credibility with the words "determine what's really going on", and "seemingly". ;)

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" This is today's Toronto Star editorial. How could they possibly do such a great job of not getting it? http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/416136 'Big-box' myth vs. reality Apr 21, 2008 04:30 AM A proposal to build...

Does anyone moderate this forum? It seems most times when there's a meaningful dialogue, in this case about the jeopardy of an entire industry, someone hijacks the thread. How did we get to speculating on real estate investments in Brantford, whilst discussing the potential destruction of...

Bad timing over Smart!Centres kiboshes Leslieville BIA plans By Duncan McAllister Attendance was sparse at an initial meeting organized by Mary Ann Grainger to discuss forming a new business improvement area for Leslieville. One local resident comments that “out of the many, many stores...

To keep the record straight, Mr. Amlani owns La Palette, a French restaurant on Augusta Ave. in Kensington Market. He makes his living selling food, wine and beer. As a reminder, all food imported from afar has a calculable carbon footprint based on production and transportation. All locally...

Petition-Car to Queen's Park: Cars Suck With over 4,000 signatures on their petition-car, Toronto activist group Streets Are for People! is ready to deliver their anti-car petition, in automobile and paper form, to MPP Rosario Marchese. Supporters will gather on Earth Day, April 22nd, to push...

Is this true? "...a young guy smoking pot in the corner, which is illegal in the province except for in this tiny little smokehouse called the “Hot Box Cafe†in Kensington Market, a bar that seems to get away with it." http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=125239&sc=150

This willingness to be swept along by chance has been part of This Ain't from the start, down to the store's distinctive name. "I was living in Chicago and Charlie said, 'I had a dream and in the dream I had a bookstore called This Ain't the Rosedale Library, and I think I'm gonna do it.' A year...

Kensington Market: “There’s now a whole generation of Americans who’ve never seen a neighbourhood like this.†Richard Florida http://www.eyeweekly.com/city/features/article/23665