Queen Street West Fire BlogTO contains many very powerful photo images of the fire, plus comments: http://blogto.com/city/2008/02/6alarm_fire_at_queen_bathurst/ Also, http://www.thestar.com/Speakout/Voices/article/306000 We asked you to tell us your memories of the heritage conservation...

Uhhh... never... at least not in the last ten years. But shhhh... if you listen real hard, you just might hear us shoot the bull once in awhile.

Poor Charlotte Creamer from Halifax, twenty years wasted in Toronto. Her thinly veiled racism shan't be missed. Being a "feotid (sic), filthy, third-world slum", it's sure grand to be upwind of her though. Ah Kensington... there's nothing like the "stench" of "filth and gunfire" in the morning.

500 very fine photos of Kensington Market http://flickr.com/search/groups/?q=kensington&w=26909951%40N00&m=pool

http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=104512&sc=264 Kensington Market. Even in the dead of winter, it's a bustling place where you can buy everything you want, if what you want is a pink wig or a tomato. Pretty two-storey houses as skinny as Posh Spice squeeze in to create a more human scale of...

http://torontoist.com/2008/01/snappy_answers2.php Dear Snappy Answers, I moved here from the U.S. a little while ago. Down there, I would hear these stories about the lax marijuana laws here and the more lax enforcement of those laws. When I got here, I thought I would have an easy time...

Meet Brad, indie ice cream maker http://www.thestar.com/living/Food/article/296361 Entrepreneur goes back to the basics for his organic ice cream Jan 23, 2008 04:30 AM Jennifer Bain Food Editor It's safe to say Brad Kurtenbach can bring his personality to work now. That wasn't...

Perola Supermarket http://www.thestar.com/living/Food/article/294229 Perola Supermarket turns its Salvadoran café into a Mexican one Jan 16, 2008 04:30 AM Jennifer Bain Nothing says changing demographics like Perola Supermarket's transformation of its Salvadoran pupuseria into a...

When Motorists Attack: Road Rage in the Market ...the driver threw a bunch of garbage out the window, the courier picked it up and threw it back in. He got out and threw coffee on her, she keyed the car. He proceeded to stomp on her bike and then hit her before bystanders pulled him away. :o...

Tom Mihalik / Tom's Place http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/01/10/pitchman-week-tom-mihalik.aspx Tom Mihalik / Tom's Place National Post January 10, 2008, by Barry Hertz “You have to be a showman,†says Tom Mihalik, owner of Tom’s Place, the...

A jazz tribute to Kensington Market Kensington Suite Kensington Market resident, and alto saxophonist Richard Underhill fires up a jazz tribute to Kensington on his just released CD set of ten tunes, titled Kensington Suite. The tracks are: Meet Me in the Market, Bike Lane, In the Shadows, A...

The weather cooperated and thousands paraded. It was fantastic... as always. For lots of photos and videos of the 2007 event, here's a link to the Festival of Lights organizer's website. http://www.redpepperspectaclearts.org/

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/286771 Set the night on fire Dec 20, 2007 Festival of Lights In Kensington Market, they celebrate the winter solstice – the longest night of the year – with lots of light and loads of noise. Tomorrow night, the 19th annual Kensington...

http://www.newspapertree.com/culture/1891-downtown-diary-oot-and-aboot-in-toronto-eh Downtown Diary: Oot and Aboot in Toronto, Eh! by Jenni Burton, El Paso, Texas Posted on December 8, 2007 I know I’m late on my column, but I was incredibly busy the last two weeks finishing up some...

Will push come to shove in Kensington? http://www.thestar.com/living/article/280699 Modern marketing may draw new customers yet Kensington Market's gritty origins are its soul Nov 29, 2007 04:30 AM Matthew katz special to the star Kensington Market has been a big part of my life...

Community Rally/Press Conference, Sunday 25/11 COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION WILL BE VITAL FOR SUCCESS!!! Please come and join the East Toronto Community Coalition for a Community Rally/Press Conference to bring forward our issues around Air Quality, Good jobs for our Community and the impact a...

Me too. Does anyone know anything specific about their plans? Which lot(s)? Scope of project(s)? Apparently Adam Vaughan hosted an information meeting a month or so ago, at Kensington Lofts, I think. Anyone go?

At the intersection of immigrant and hippie http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071109.wflorida10/BNStory/Front/home At the intersection of immigrant and hippie Dr. Florida delights in Kensington Market, with its old-world market and with seemingly incongruous groups living...

A Taste of Kensington Market By Lindsay Sheehan in Suggested Itineraries Toronto is known as a multi-cultural city, then Kensington Market is its microcosm. Rather than the sense of pride found in separate identity (denizens of a district who are a specific race, religion, or sexuality) this...