Toronto remains Liberal this federal election. Did Ford factor in?
Liberal red swept across all 25 Toronto city ridings in this year’s federal election and it may be thanks to Ontario’s Conservative premier.
Liberal red swept across all 25 Toronto city ridings in this year’s federal election and it may be thanks to Ontario’s Conservative premier.
Federal Candidates for the Toronto-Danforth riding are set to debate at Centennial College’s Story Arts Centre tonight.
With $550, Torontonians can get a fancy meal underneath a highway, but probably not a place to live–cue hundreds of protesters gathering outside a posh dining experience on Friday that opened weeks after homeless encampments were evicted from the area. Dinner with a View, a pop-up series that serves top-chef meals in human sized terrariums, opened at The Bentway at 250 Fort York Blvd. on March 28. The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) organized the gathering around the venue with a counter event, Dinner with a View–of the Rich.
Toronto Public Health has launched an education campaign to prevent accidental consumption of cannabis just months before the legalization of edibles set for October. “We know that kids get into everything,” said Toronto Public Health spokesperson Susan Shepherd, in an email statement to the Toronto Observer.
Hundreds of people gathered outside of a Danforth mosque on Friday to show support for their Muslim neighbours as they entered for prayer in light of the mass shootings at two New Zealand mosques last week.
Toronto police have arrested a man in connection with suspicious packages found at Broadview Station this week. The packages led police to close the station at Broadview and Danforth Avenues on Monday and Tuesday mornings.
East York teen Paniz Moradi Zadeh arrived in Canada two years ago, unable to speak English. Even then, she had a natural humanitarian streak and was helping refugees like herself. Now she has been awarded a $100,000 scholarship for her work.
Toronto is on track to tackle climate change according to a report released last week that revealed the city’s 2020 goal has been surpassed, but some say the next phase of targets will be harder to reach in Ford’s Ontario.
The Greenhouse Gas Emissions inventory, released by the city last week, revealed that a 33 per cent decrease in emissions since 1990 which surpassed the 2020 goal of 30 per cent under TransformTO, the city’s climate action plan. The next goal is a 65 per cent emissions reduction by 2030.
A group of Torontonians is helping put a part of Niger State, Nigeria, on the map — literally.
They’re part of an initiative to build digital maps for some of the most vulnerable communities in the world. Sixty of the volunteers gathered recently at the Toronto headquarters of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to work on the project.
While this year’s flu enters its mid-season, medical professionals debate whether or not the unpredictable illness has reached its peak.