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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 8, 2024 1:22 pm Updated August 8, 2024 1:58 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The City of Toronto says it has laid bylaw charges against two companies that left a construction bin on the road where …
Read More »Toronto jacks up the price for parking without paying – Toronto
Descrease article font size Increase article font size New, higher parking fines came into effect in Toronto, with drivers looking at penalties as high as $200 for some offences. The City of Toronto increased 123 separate offences on Thursday, Aug. 1, including for parking in bike lanes, failing to pay …
Read More »‘Downtown has not kept up at all’: Pressure on Toronto parks grows as population climbs – Toronto
For a long time, the parks, parkettes and ravines scattered around Toronto were regarded as “nice to have” and as “frills,” advocate Dave Harvey says, but now he believes people have come to see them as vital infrastructure akin to schools, roads and hospitals. Harvey, the co-executive director of Park …
Read More »Toronto is vulnerable to climate-fuelled floods. What will make it more resilient?
Toronto city councillors, who presided last week over a city of inundated transit stations, roadways and basements, are set to discuss how to make the metropolis more resilient to climate-fuelled floods. Mayor Olivia Chow’s motion, to be tabled at Wednesday’s city council meeting, is expected to stir discussion on flood mitigation …
Read More »Traffic ‘crisis’ has many Toronto-area residents ‘reluctant’ to work in office: poll
Many Toronto-area residents are “reluctant to travel to work” amid a traffic and congestion “crisis,” a new poll indicates. The poll, conducted by Ipsos for the Toronto Region Board of Trade (TRBT), also showed that a majority of respondents have contemplated moving outside of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area …
Read More »‘We have a problem:’ Ontario man recounts his beloved dog being in grips of coyote
A week after Global News first reported on coyote attacks on dogs at Princess Margaret Park in Etobicoke, residents continue to come forward to express their concern over the ongoing issue. There have been numerous reports to the City of Toronto concerning coyote attacks in the area. Doug Youngson says …
Read More »Toronto staff looking into Ontario’s legal duties, if any, to operate science centre
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted June 28, 2024 1:22 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto city staff are looking into what legal requirements the province may have to operate or maintain the Ontario Science Centre, after Premier Doug Ford’s government abruptly shuttered the …
Read More »Anger growing over lack of government support for Toronto asylum seekers – Toronto
It’s been weeks since church groups stepped in to provide shelter for dozens of refugees left on the concrete outside a Toronto homeless intake centre, but anger is growing as their resources are stretched thin. Revivaltime Tabernacle is one of the Black-led churches providing shelter for the refugees. When it …
Read More »Toronto exploring new taxes, parking levy to tackle budget deficit – Toronto
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 17, 2023 11:43 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size Officials in Toronto are proposing several measures to tackle the budget crisis facing Canada’s largest city, including raising the land-transfer tax on high-value homes, increasing the vacant homes tax from one …
Read More »2 councillors ask city to make Toronto’s ‘alcohol in parks’ signage smaller – Toronto
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Two city councillors are asking the City of Toronto to reduce the size of signage for the alcohol in parks pilot project. Coun. Paula Fletcher from Ward 14 Toronto Danforth and Coun. Alejandra Bravo from Ward 9 Davenport wrote a letter to …
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