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Riverdale-East York Daily Updates

July 28, 2021July 28, 2021 Streeter staff 0 Comment 55 Division, ActiveTO, arson, assault, automated speed enforcement, baseball, Bayview Avenue, Brad Bradford, Broadview Avenue, child care, child luring, child pornography, collision, COVID-19, Danforth Avenue, Dentonia Park Golf Course, East York Civic Centre, fatality, fire, Freshco, gun control, home invasion, homelessness, homicide, housing, hydro rates, Jack Layton, knife, live music, Loblaw Companies, Loblaws, methadone, Michael Garron Hospital, missing person, modular housing, murder, outdoor recreation, parking permits, Paula Fletcher, pedestrian, Peter Tabuns, power outage, rents, review, rinks, road work, robbery, SafeTO, sex assault, shooting, smoke alarms, snow clearing, stabbing, stunt drivers, swimming, Taylor Creek Park, Toronto Police, tow trucks, vaccination rate, vaccinations, vaccine, Valu-Mart, Wakunda Place, Youth Leaders of East York

A quick look at news, views and things to do in Riverdale-East York neighbourhoods.

$Cr\escent Town to get vaccine push$

NEWS

Weekend vaccine push planned for east end

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 Rodger Burnside 0 Comment Beaches-East York, Brad Bradford, John Tory, Michael Garron Hospital, vaccine

The Taylor-Massey area with the lowest vaccination rates in the city is targeted for a vaccine push by Team Toronto this weekend.

NEWS

Snow clearing extended to all city’s sidewalks, council decides

June 9, 2021June 9, 2021 Rodger Burnside Brad Bradford, City Council, John Tory, sidewalks, snow clearing

City councillors have voted to extend snow clearing to about 1,300 kilometres of sidewalks not already receiving the service.

*FEATURED Opinion VIEWS

Benefits of the pandemic: new bike lanes and closed roads

May 27, 2021 Ali Nahsoor ActiveTO, Bayview Avenue, bike lanes, cycling, Danforth Avenue, Lake Shore Boulevard East, pedestrians

If there is one benefit we have received from the pandemic and lockdown over the past year or so, it’s the rapid extension of our bike lanes.

Little league picture for community sport story

*FEATURED NEWS

When can we play ball again? city asks

May 15, 2021May 17, 2021 Dennis Hanagan baseball, Brad Bradford, East Toronto Baseball Association, Ontario Baseball Association, sports

City council has adopted a motion from Councillor Brad Bradford asking the Ontario government for a plan to safely restart community sports.

*FEATURED NEWS

Help bring back live music, Bradford and BIAs urge premier

April 29, 2021April 30, 2021 Rodger Burnside Brad Bradford, Broadview Danforth BIA, Danforth Music Hall, Doug Ford, live music, live streaming, TABIA

Councillor Brad Bradford has joined Toronto’s BIAs in a letter to Premier Doug Ford lamenting recent restrictions on live streaming music.

*FEATURED NEWS

Crackdown on large gatherings starting April 22

April 21, 2021April 22, 2021 Rodger Burnside beaches, COVID-19, James Ramer, parks, Toronto Police

Toronto police may not be stopping folks who are out walking or driving, but they will be enforcing prohibitions against gatherings.

NEWS

Green’s deputy leader to run in Beaches-East York

April 21, 2021April 26, 2021 Rodger Burnside Green Party of Ontario, Mary-Margaret McMahon, provincial election, Rima Berns-McGown

The Green Party has chosen its deputy leader Abhijeet Manay to run for the Beaches-East York riding in the 2022 provincial election.

Riverdale among all Toronto schools closed

*FEATURED NEWS

Medical officer orders all Toronto schools closed for in-person learning

April 6, 2021April 7, 2021 Rodger Burnside COVID-19, Eileen de Villa, Health Protection and Promotion Act, schools, Toronto Public Health

Medical health officer Dr. Eileen de Villa has ordered elementary and secondary schools closed and students to transition to remote learning.

Festivals THINGS TO DO

Show love for the city with online festival: March 6–April 6

March 12, 2021April 6, 2021 Streeter staff Celebrate Toronto

Celebrate Toronto is honouring the city’s 187th Anniversary as a virtual festival to show love for Toronto and its small businesses.

*FEATURED NEWS

Beaches, Rosedale, Lawrence Park among lowest COVID rates

February 14, 2021February 15, 2021 Rodger Burnside COVID-19, map, neighbourhoods

Some neighbourhoods are showing much better COVID rates than others, judging by figures from the provincial Ministry of Health.

*FEATURED Editorial VIEWS

Is this the winter of the gun?

February 13, 2021February 15, 2021 Streeter staff Editorial, gun control, handgun, homicides, John Tory, Justin Trudeau, shootings

Trudeau government’s expected gun control on military-style weapons does not go nearly far enough to deal with Toronto’s handgun violence.

*FEATURED NEWS

Patios on streets and sidewalks set to return in spring

January 27, 2021January 29, 2021 Rodger Burnside CafeTO, John Tory, patios

The dining and drinking patios that lined Toronto streets last summer may be back in spring bigger than ever, if council gives okays them.

*FEATURED VIEWS

Feeling the loss of East York Chronicle founder Gary Webb-Proctor

January 8, 2021April 1, 2021 Andrea Freedman Andrea Freedman, East York Chronicle, Gary Webb-Proctor

Writer began the year with the news her employer and mentor, East York Chronicle publisher Gary Webb-Proctor, had died.

DAILY UPDATES

Riverdale-East York Daily Updates: November–December 2020

December 31, 2020March 1, 2021 Streeter staff attempted murder, BigArtTO, bike lanes, books, Broadway Station, CampTO, COVID-19, Dundas Street, East York Chronicle, electric vehicles, Empringham Hotel, explosion, fire, Food Basics, nooses, Pape Station, power outage, robberies, stabbing, testing, Thorncliffe Park Public School, tobogganing, Toronto District School Board, washrooms

A quick look at news, views and things to do in Riverdale-East York neighbourhoods.

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