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On Saturday November 8th, the Toronto Star ran a major feature I wrote about the downtown Toronto city block of College Park. The 3-page story appeared on the cover of the Condo section. There was no room for this and several other sidebars. The actual article appears above (scroll up) Lawyers. Guns and Money 30 minutes in Court Room 2 – College Park, Ontario Provincial Criminal Court: • A Boston Pizza waitress tells the court that she has found new friends, changed her lifestyle and will go back to school. She was stopped by RIDE on Eglinton Avenue during the summer. She is fined $600 • A translator is needed to help a man plead guilty to drunk driving after he too was caught by RIDE on Eglinton. He is fined $1,000 and prohibited from driving for a year. • A 19 –year old is lead into court handcuffed. He is sentenced to a few days in jail for missing court dates and for stealing a lap top computer. The judge is told that the man – a professional DJ - went to an apartment to apolog

On Saturday November 8th, the Toronto Star ran a major feature I wrote about the downtown Toronto city block of College Park. The 3-page story appeared on the cover of the Condo section. There was no room to place the attached sidebar. The actual article appears above (scroll up) Cutline: artist's drawing of an Aura condo living room Three new levels of government will be created when the Aura is built! Condo unit owners of almost 1,000 suites and the owners of the Podium retail floors must belong to self-governing condominium associations: • Three condo associations based on floor location will be created • One condo association for the retail floors up to the 4th floor • Second condo association for floors 5 to 55 • Third condo association for floors 56 and up.

On Saturday November 8th, the Toronto Star ran a major feature I wrote about the downtown Toronto city block of College Park. The 3-page story appeared on the cover of the Condo section. There was no room to place the attached sidebar.The actual article appears above (scroll up) 777 Bay Street Dollarrama. University of Ryerson students ‘08 version of an Eaton’s department store. What you can buy there for a dollar: • Individual plates, cups, glasses and cutlery • 3 movies on 1 DVD including Peter Lorre in Mr. Moto’s Last Warning • Pregnancy test kit • Deluxe can of Vienna Sausages • Bendable pen in the shape of a dolphin • 100 sheets of paper • Squeezy container of bright yellow paint • CD album case covered in poodle pictures • Energy star light bulb • Box of Uncle Ben’s rice

* On Saturday November 8th, the Toronto Star ran a major feature I wrote about the downtown Toronto city block of College Park. The 3-page story appeared on the cover of the Condo section. There was no room to place the attached sidebar. The actual article appears above (scroll up) 7 Things To Do At the College Park Block • Renew your driver’s license in the giant ServiceOntario Centre -- basement of 777 Bay • Witness people loose their driver’s licenses in provincial criminal court. Justice system at work on the 2nd Floor College Park • Photograph the Three Watchmen Totem Poles carved by Haida artist Robert Davidson in 1984 to mark the city’s Sesquicentennial year. The work is made up a 50 foot and two 30 foot totem poles – center mall 777 Bay Street • Do something nice – dig deep and take in a charity event at Carlu • Get off the subway buy dinner in the College Park Dominion Store (soon to be Metro store) and get onto the College streetcar before your transfer times out • Dangl

* Rent a Piece of the Block In addition to the condos already built on College Park, there are over 400 apartments available for rent in the old Eaton building. Great Western Life’s College Park Suites has bachelor, 1 bedroom and 2 bedroom units for rent. • Two bedroom apartment rent starts at $2,250 a month • Parking for residents is $85 per month. • 24-hour surveillance and monitoring • When residents take the subway late at night, they can have a security guard meet them at the station and escort them to their suite.

* Who Lives Where 777 Bay Street • Retail, service and office building, built in 1983 • 30 floors. 898,060 sq. ft. College Park • Built between 1928 and 1930 • 7 floors of offices, Provincial Courts, retail stores, rental apartments • linked to College Park subway station • 1979 – reconstruction completed, 210 rental apartments added Approximately 400 residents Residences of College Park • Two buildings -- 51 and 46 storeys high • 10-parkside townhouses. • Approximately 2,600 residents The Liberties • The complex has two 20-storey towers and one 19-storey tower. • Two towers are on Bay (711 and 717) and the third is on Gerrard. • Approximately 1,000 residents. Similar Sized Communities There are an estimated 4,000 people living in the College Park Block. When the Aura skyscrapper is completed the Block population will be an estimated 7,000 people. According to StatsCan, Ontario towns with similar population include: • Alymer 7,126 • Crystal Beach 6,686 • Essex 7,002 • Kincardine 6

Noreen Taylor and the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction help promote Canadian books in the United Kingdom The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction is giving the nation's book industry assistance in marketing Canadian literature to the people of the United Kingdom. At the International Festival Of Authors (IFOA), held in Toronto over the past two weeks, Noreen Taylor, the founder of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, donated nearly 140 non-fiction books to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), to be used by the Canada High Commission in London, England. The books, all non-fiction titles, were entered for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize. On stage at IFOA Ms Taylor presented a signed copy of the winning book, Richard Gwyn's "John A.: The Man Who Made Us: The Life and Times of John A. MacDonald, Volume One: 1815-1867 to John Bonar of DFAIT. Pictured left to right are: Authors Lewis Desoto and Richard Gwyn (sea