Latest from Michael Smee
Museum of Bad Gifts an homage to the awkward, the unwanted and the inappropriate
This season of gift-giving, the awkward, the unwanted and the inappropriate are being saved from the garbage heap by four young artists who've just opened the Museum of Bad Gifts at a gallery on Roncesvalles Ave.
Condo board backs down after trying to restrict visitors with service dogs
The board of a Toronto-area condo is reversing course on an order that forced a disabled woman with a service dog to register with the property manager every time she wanted to visit the building, where her mother and sister live.
Hiccups at new downtown Toronto pool leave kids' swim classes in limbo, parents say
Some downtown Toronto parents say the city's left them high and dry after a new, state-of-the-art pool was closed recently for the second time since mid-October.
93-year-old YouTuber back in business after being kicked off platform over porn allegation
A 93-year-old retired University of Toronto professor had her YouTube channel cancelled after it was alleged she was broadcasting pornography. Her interviews on climate change and disarmament were also lost in the snafu, the result of a hacking attack.
Decrepit Harbord Village signpost makes neighbourhood look 'slummy,' but no one can agree on who should fix it
City staff and Harbord Village residents are struggling to find common ground over who's responsible for an iconic Harbord Village signpost that's fallen into disrepair.
No one knows who owns this Toronto laneway, but neighbours say it's become a dangerous dumping ground
Frustrated shop owners in Toronto's Yonge and Wellesley area say the city is refusing to pick up mounds of garbage that regularly accumulates in an adjacent laneway because it's private property — even though the laneway's last known owner died more than a century ago.
Toronto wants to ban paid plasma clinics, but 2 are already slated to open in the city next year
Toronto is declaring itself a paid-plasma-free zone — a designation that will likely do nothing to stop Canadian Blood Services from opening two clinics in the city's suburbs that will pay people for plasma donations in 2025.
Residents want to know why revitalization project left strip of parkland derelict
Some residents living near a park in the Kensington-Chinatown neighbourhood say the city dropped the ball on its ambitious three-year plan to upgrade the grounds, ignoring a derelict section that they say is ugly and unsafe.
Dead animal pickup times in Toronto prolonged by spike in calls
It can now take more than a week for City of Toronto staff to retrieve an animal cadaver after it's reported. And that stinks, according to one city councillor.
Toronto residents detail Metrolinx construction pains
It's been full steam ahead for Metrolinx's Ontario Line, but some of the residents near the under-construction Pape stop say they're feeling railroaded by the provincial transit agency.