Medical officer orders all Toronto schools closed for in-person learning
Medical health officer Dr. Eileen de Villa has ordered elementary and secondary schools closed and students to transition to remote learning.
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Neighbourhood: Kensington
Show love for the city with online festival: March 6–April 6
Celebrate Toronto is honouring the city’s 187th Anniversary as a virtual festival to show love for Toronto and its small businesses.
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Beaches, Rosedale, Lawrence Park among lowest COVID rates
Some neighbourhoods are showing much better COVID rates than others, judging by figures from the provincial Ministry of Health.
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Is this the winter of the gun?
Trudeau government’s expected gun control on military-style weapons does not go nearly far enough to deal with Toronto’s handgun violence.
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Holiday camps and winter instruction programs shut down by city
Thousands of kids looking forward to city-run holiday camps and skiing or skating lessons will have to forego those activities that get them out of the house, as the programs have been cancelled.
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Manslaughter charged in ‘sudden death’ at hospital
Two people have been arrested after an investigation into a “sudden death” two weeks after an incident at Toronto General Hospital.
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More park washrooms you can use this winter
If you’re out and about this winter and you just have to go, but washrooms at local eateries are no-go areas — the city has you covered.
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‘Extensive damages’ in Oxford Street house fire—again?
An Oxford Street house suffered extensive in damages from a fire early this morning, though it may not be for the first time.
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Renaming Dundas Street moves to public phase
City council gave the go-ahead today to further research and holding public consultations on renaming Dundas Street project.
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Upsurge in Toronto COVID cases shown on neighbourhood map
Once thought rid of COVID-19, midtown and east-end communities are infected in the latest wave, neighbourhood map shows.
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More than Christmas fun is cancelled—or moved online
The cancellation of Toronto’s famous Christmas parade is getting most of the attention, but dozens of other festivities have been shut down
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Does your neighbourhood need a climate champion? Is it you?
Toronto is looking for Neighbourhood Climate Action Champions to help develop local climate action projects.
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Become a tourist in our own neighbourhoods, city urges
Tour the neighbourhoods in Toronto’s 25 wards, with self-guided tours outlined by the city in its StrollTO program.
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Oct. 3–10: Attend Nuit Blanche virtually
Nuit Blanche has been reimagined for a virtual experience starting Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. and running until Oct. 12.
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BigArtTO projects art into local neighbourhoods
In case you can’t get leave your neighbourhood to see art, Toronto is bringing art to your neighbourhood, projected onto local buildings.
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