Tag Archives: Toronto

As a worker in the trades, Toronto resident Kyle Ott relied heavily on cars to get around to different job sites across the GTA – often using ride-hailing apps like Uber. Four months ago, he purchased an e-scooter. “I figured, why not? I’ll give it a shot,” said Ott. “This gets me …

More than two years ago, the streets were quiet around Ingrid Buday’s west-end Toronto condo. COVID-19 had just hit and the roads were empty. “I felt like there was just this expanse where I could enjoy my balcony and I could sleep at night with the door open,” Buday said. It didn’t …

A delay in getting a report to city council is the latest disappointment following years of slow progress on the legalization of rooming houses throughout Toronto, housing advocates say. According to an update going to the Planning and Housing committee on Tuesday, a report on how to best regulate multi-tenant housing …

Toronto workers who live in the Cobourg, Ont. area are concerned and frustrated that Via Rail has not yet resumed its early morning commuter train into the city and they are calling on the national rail passenger service to reinstate it. Residents who have returned to work in person say they used to …

An Ontario Superior Court judge has thrown out a $30-million defamation suit accusing several local Toronto politicians, journalists and media outlets of labelling the owner and publisher of an Italian-language newspaper homophobic, transphobic and anti-LGBTQ+. The suit was filed in April of 2021 by Joseph Volpe, the publisher of Corriere Canadese, and M.T.E.C. Consultants, which …

A long-term care home operator unveiled a “Rainbow Wing” at one of its downtown Toronto facilities on Saturday to address the need for a dedicated space for LGBTQ2 seniors. Rekai Centres opened the 25-bed wing at its home at Wellesley Central Place. Residents, staff and community members gathered to celebrate the …

The man responsible for Toronto’s deadly van attack has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years. Justice Anne Molloy handed down her sentence in Superior Court in Toronto Monday in a room full of victims, family, friends and community members whose lives were forever changed on April 23, …

For years when James Russell drove through Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., he noticed the yard with two headstones beside a small plaza on Mississauga Street. He knew it was more than a plain patch of grass in a quiet town. “Each time I pass, I say, really somebody needs to address this issue …

Amanda O’Brien went into Dr. Mahmood Kara’s office in 2019 for what was supposed to be a relatively simple procedure: a breast lift that would leave her existing implants, which he had put in 10 years earlier, intact. Instead, O’Brien ended up having to undergo five surgeries in the span of …

A man is dead after being shot by police, putting an end to afternoon lockdowns at multiple schools across the Port Union area of Scarborough. However, police remain tight-lipped about what actually happened near Maberley Crescent and East Avenue. Toronto Police Chief James Ramer spoke from the scene for roughly …