14
Sep
2012
There's cause for a little celebration here at Birch Cliff News.
After less than three months online we've just passed the mark of 20,000 page views.
It's an interesting statistic when you consider the neighbourhood only...
13
Sep
2012
The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) has released the 2011/2012 results for standardized testing in public schools.
The tests measure the reading, writing and math capabilities of students in Grades 3 and 6, as...
08
Sep
2012
Canada's wheelchair basketball team has defeated Australia 64-58 to win gold at the London Paralympics.
The team includes four athletes from Variety Village: Adam Lancia, Tyler Miller, Abdi Dini Fatah and Brandon Wagner.
You can read about...
08
Sep
2012
It's a big day for Variety Village at the 2012 London Paralympic Games.
Canada's men's wheelchair basketball team is competing against Australia in the gold medal game at 4:15pm Toronto time.
The team includes four athletes...
05
Sep
2012
Toronto Police report a grisly discovery in the waters near Bluffer's Park.
Police say a suitcase containing human remains was pulled out of Lake Ontario.
It was discovered by boaters who opened the suitcase and called...
05
Sep
2012
Toronto Water was not surprised to be inundated with phone calls after the July 15th rainstorm that flooded hundreds of Scarborough homes with raw sewage because officials knew that half a dozen “fixes” needed...
02
Sep
2012
Just a heads up that Ward 35 - next door to Birch Cliff - is holding its flooding meeting this coming Thursday at 6pm at Warden Hilltop Community Centre at Mendelssohn Street. The meeting...
30
Aug
2012
Six weeks after hundreds of homes flooded in Birch Cliff and other parts of Ward 36, Variety Village has stepped forward to say it also flooded July 15th and August 10th and sustained more...