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The oldest building still standing in Toronto that has long served as an important and irreplaceable historical landmark has been experiencing some...

Riverdale is a large area of Toronto, encompassing many smaller communities, just east of the DVP. Technically, it stretches from the Danforth to L...

Cabbagetown’s Necropolis Cemetery makes a ghostly wandering ground for a treacherous time in Victorian Toronto’s history.

He was the wartime Prime Minister regarded by many to be the greatest Briton who ever lived. Sir Winston Churchills leadership during the fight against Nazi Germany was symbolised by the indomitable spirit he championed in his numerous speeches to the British public. But far from the symbol of strength which he represents, a new book details how the politician suffered from a barrage of ailments throughout his life. Winston Churchills Illnesses 1886-1965, by Allister Vale and John Scadding, set...

Media Credit: Photo Illustration by Camille DeSanto | Assistant Photo Editor Watch Jenny Lin speak about and perform pieces from masters like Chopin, Liszt, George Gershwin and Philip Glass this weekend. This weekend, hear about a selection of études with pianist Jenny Lin, explore a historic house in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, and learn about Winston Churchill’s various illnesses.  Friday ‘A Brief and Modern History of Piano Études’ with Jenny Lin In this online performance, spons...

Dr John Scadding Biography John Scadding, OBE, MD FRCP, is Honorary Consultant Neurologist Emeritus to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, and was formerly also neurologist to Whittington Hospital, honorary consultant civilian adviser in neurology to the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, and honorary consultant neurologist to Saint Luke’s Hospital for the Clergy and the Royal Society of Musicians. He was Clinical Sub-Dean at the Institute of Neurology and Acade...

photo credit: Bigstock The mice in my absence have been at my books again, with what Marx called, with regard to the manuscript of his then-unpublished Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, their gnawing criticism. Much good may gnawing it have done them! When finally published, forty years after it was written, the manuscript did considerable harm, at least if ideas have consequences, for as an appendix to that work is inscribed one of the most beguiling ...