With the buzz of chainsaws in the background, residents in the Yonge-Eglinton area lamented the death this week of a local landmark: a towering, century-old willow tree. Andrew Vernon-Betts ...

The roughly 65-foot-tall tree is believed to have been planted in the 1930s, as the initial construction on West Campus was nearing completion. With large cavities in its trunk, dying limbs and ...