Church & Wellesley - Yorkville - Annex : Featured Stories

As Toronto prepares for this weekend's Pride parades and next year's World Pride festival, Church Street takes steps to maintain its LGBT identity into the future with the launch of the Village Study. 

A new program aims to give young filmmakers a crash course in the world of documentary film. Hot Docs' Brett Hendrie explains how it helps build a stronger doc community.

For a Chinese-born economist, the difficulties new immigrants have entering the labour market are more than just theoretical. Maggie Chen's learned the obstacles firsthand. She's also learned about the resources available to help her.

Is there much to learn from Toronto's experience with immigration? Lots, says the Cities of Migration project as it aims to share not just Toronto's ideas on successful immigration inclusion, but those of other cities around the world.

If election season's got you down, Toronto-based Samara is trying to make things brighter by changing the public's cynicism towards Canadian politics, one initiative at a time.

A Different Booklist is one independent bookstore that's flourishing by being a community centre for Toronto's Caribbean diaspora.

Church Street sure was in the news this past week. Let's revisit Yonge Street's investigation of Church that ran a year ago by Bert Archer and Tanja-Tiziana. For decades the street has been the centre of the region's gay and lesbian communities, but as the rest of the city becomes more gay and gay-friendly, what does that mean for the Church Street Strip?

In the first of our series looking at some of Toronto's evolving neighbourhood strips, Yonge Street's Bert Archer and Tanja-Tiziana Burdi explore the changing face of Bathurst Street. Along the way they found good buildings and a linear community of entrepreneurs that keeps the strip together.

Kenneth Montague has won Now magazine's best dentist award several times. He's also an art collector and curator who decided to take on the Canadian art establishment and put Toronto's black artists and art about black identity on the world map.

Frustrated by the problems and oversight in the bicycle market, an Annex bike store manager designed a bicycle specifically for Toronto's geography and climate, realized he'd found a niche need, and started manufacturing and selling the two-wheeler across North America.

How activist Philip Wong discovered that a strong brand is critical to building a strong charity when the venerable Lesbian and Gay Community Appeal relaunched as Community One.