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Holiday hours: What’s open over Christmas weekend

December 22, 2021December 24, 2021 Streeter staff Allan Gardens, Art Gallery of Ontario, Boxing Day, Christmas, libraries, museums, Royal Ontario Museum, Shoppers Drug Mart, skating

Here’s a list of holiday hours for stores, shopping malls, groceries, recreational facilities, libraries, museums and more on Dec. 24–26.

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EDITORIAL: Putting the local back in ‘Shop local’

December 6, 2013 Town Crier staff Black Friday, Boxing Day, shop local, shopping

Black Friday. Cyber Monday. The discount shopping days imported from south of the border keep rolling in.

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Arrest made in child abduction, sex assault

March 7, 2012May 4, 2017 Shawn Star abduction, Boxing Day, child, Ryan Belbin, sexual assault, Toronto Police

Accused lived across the street from the victim’s family

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Child sex assault suspect still at large

January 5, 2012May 4, 2017 Karolyn Coorsh Boxing Day, child, Faywood Public School, sexual assault, Toronto Police

Police continue to hunt man who abducted and sexually assaulted 4-year-old girl on Boxing Day

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Don Mills fire taxed water pressure

January 10, 2011 Town Crier staff Boxing Day, Don Mills, fire

17 fire trucks were called to calm massive Boxing Day blaze in the Leslie Street and Lawrence Avenue area

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THAT WAS THEN. This is now.

Empringham Hotel 1903
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From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020May 5, 2021 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danfoirth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

Queen and Waverley 1903
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Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan
Beltline bridge over Yonge Street ion 1915
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When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan
Yonge-Eglinton southeast
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Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan
Mt. Pleasant loop being built
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When building transit was simpler at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton

May 9, 2019November 24, 2020 Eric McMillan
Hay wagons on Yonge Street
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The days of hay wagons and streetcars on Yonge Street

February 1, 2019February 3, 2019 Eric McMillan
Avoca bridge being torn down
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The viaduct that brought Moore Park into Toronto

December 1, 2018December 15, 2018 Streeter staff

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