Shop Local initiative to help improve Richmond Hill business environment
Richmond Hill deputy mayor Carmine Perrelli has developed a Shop Local initiative to distribute free masks
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Digital fitness is the new wave in Toronto
Have you cancelled your gym membership yet? Many of us already have. A new trend of digital fitness is helping us stay fit.
Move over Kevin Hart: meet ‘The (Stunt) Man (and woman) from Toronto’
Major parts of downtown Toronto were shut down during COVID-19 for a stunt driving scene of an upcoming movie The Man From Toronto starring Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson.
Homeschooling tips for autistic kids during COVID-19
When governments in many countries ordered schools to shut down in March 2020 because of the pandemic, families with autistic kids felt the stakes were exceptionally high. The parents have had to ensure that their children receive a good education, while also having adequate mental health supports in place. The combination has been quite tiring for most of them.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Gets an A in Viking history
As players fire up Assasin’s Creed Vahalla, which released globally on Nov. 10, they might not know that behind the coding and programming were three years of work by a team including a dedicated historical research unit at Ubisoft to create an authentic Viking experience.
In dark hour for hospitality industry, some are opening new restaurants anyways
Dire predictions on the odds of restaurants surviving the winter continue to dominate the news as the pandemic drags on. Restaurants Canada estimates that since the start of the pandemic, 33,000 jobs in Toronto have been lost and full-service restaurants are experiencing as much as 80 per cent of sales losses due to the shutdown of indoor dining. And yet, despite the economic uncertainty and bad news, there are still restaurants popping up around Toronto.
Toronto restaurant workers pivot from COVID-19
When Ontario went into lockdown in mid-March, 2020 due to the pandemic, bartender Marko Yovanovich lost his full-time job. He had worked at Trinity Common in Toronto’s Kensington Market for a year. The next day, Yovanovich started his own business: Food Group Catering. The restaurant industry, which had to shut down in March and April, still had 250,000 people out of work in October, 2020 according to a recent study. Ontario and Quebec were impacted most drastically.
Ontario teachers are ‘silently suffering’ four months into the school year
This time last year, Cecilia C was walking a picket line over issues like wages, class sizes and mandatory online courses. Now, the Toronto teacher just wants some consistency as COVID-19 keeps Ontario teachers on…
COVID-19 street art thanks Toronto essential workers
While many of us were inside our homes during the summer slowly adjusting to living life in a pandemic, Toronto graffiti artist Jabari “Elicser” Elliott was outdoors creating a mural in a tribute to the…
How Ontario musicians and their fans are struggling under COVID-19
Page Street, a usually quiet place in Toronto just south of Bloor, was not so quiet on Saturday August 1, thanks to Dov Beck-Levine and his band Dov’s Scrambled Jazz Eggs. Beck-Levine and his six-piece band held a live performance outside of his family’s home. His friends and neighbours were able to enjoy the music after the musician decided it was safe to hold a show where audience members wore masks and were seated six feet apart. The performers also stayed six feet apart. The drummer was especially far away from the others: he was playing on the porch.