Between 7 p.m. Nov. 10 and 11 a.m. Nov. 11, the TTC saw three suicide attempts. Ashleigh Dalton of Toronto Public Health said November and December are strongly linked to seasonal depression, or Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Flu season is approaching fast and the city of Toronto wants to make sure everyone has the chance to get vaccinated. The city is holding community flu shot clinics across Toronto, including one at the Scarborough Civic Centre.
Not only are some East York parents worried about their kids picking up butts off the ground, they are concerned for the health of their children. Another East York mom, Kerry, said she thinks that smokers shouldn’t be smoking where a large group of people are nearby.
A tuberculosis discussion with two local doctors informed Chinese newcomers in Scarborough about the disease. Immediate translation to Mandarin also helped in their understanding.
For years,Toronto’s food truck industry has been engaged in a round robin of sorts trying to find locations to park their mobile eateries around the city. Now, representatives from municipal licensing and the Street Food…
With so many health-focused restaurants in Toronto’s downtown core, Scarborough residents may have trouble knowing where to find healthy restaurants closer to home. Restaurants like Fresh, which has three locations in Toronto, are vowing to serve the public more healthy meals made from natural ingredients without animal by-products.
Lack of funding is preventing the growth of breakfast and food programs in Scarborough schools. The Toronto Partners for Student Nutrition (TPSN) placed a moratorium on the division of municipal and provincial funding that provides subsidy for existing breakfast and food programs in schools.
Susan Bull has an antidote to an unappetizing problem at The Scarborough Hospital. “We’re going to return to in-house scratch food production,” she said. “What we are going to buy are potatoes (for example) that we now have to peel … not frozen, or soaked in a (potentially unhealthy) metabisulphite product.”
“Bed bugs are in every kind of building – in all different income neighbourhoods. They’re in hotels, they are in our public spaces. What we need is ongoing funding to be able to approach this in a very fundamental way,” says a Toronto city councillor.
Winter is fast approaching and with the change in weather comes flu season. Like in previous years, the flu shot is a hot topic; some strongly believe in the benefits of the flu vaccine and encourage those around them to get the shot, while others are adamantly against it.