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Eileen de Villa

Riverdale among all Toronto schools closed
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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.

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camps and skating lessons cancelled
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Holiday camps and winter instruction programs shut down by city

December 18, 2020December 23, 2020 Rodger Burnside CampTO, cancellations, COVID-19, Eileen de Villa, Joe Cressy

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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RH McGregor one of school closures
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Six more school closures due to COVID outbreaks

December 14, 2020December 15, 2020 Rodger Burnside City Adult Learning Centre, coronavirus, COVID-19, Eileen de Villa, Grenoble Public School, Humewood Community School, Oakridge Junior Public School, R.H. McGregor Elementary School, Toronto District School Board

The announced shutdown of six more schools brings the number of school closures due to COVID-19 outbreaks in the TDSB to nine.

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Opening in Stage 2
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Stage 2 at last! Wide reopening to start this week

June 22, 2020June 23, 2020 Rodger Burnside COVID-19, Eileen de Villa, John Tory, reopening

More businesses, cultural centres and recreational facilities should be opening soon, as the province has moved Toronto to Stage 2 of its reopening plan.

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Stan Wadlow among parks ticketed
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City ticketing people using parks facilities, gathered too closely

April 8, 2020April 10, 2020 Rodger Burnside coronavirus, COVID-19, Eileen de Villa, John Tory, parks, Stan Wadlow Park, Toronto Police, Windfields Park

City staff issued 12 tickets and spoken to 848 people caught using shutdown facilities or not following distancing rules in Toronto’s parks on Monday.

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Lineup at cafes
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Coffee’s still on, but you may have to line up for it — far apart

March 22, 2020March 26, 2020 Streeter staff café, coffee shop, coronavirus, COVID-19, Eileen de Villa

East end cafés are serving takeout with restrictions on hours, payment options or numbers — and you may have to join a lineup observing social distance.

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coffee shop open
NEWS 

Most east end coffee shops still open — but with changes

March 20, 2020March 26, 2020 Streeter staff café, coffee shop, coronavirus, COVID-19, Eileen de Villa

You can still get a coffee in the Danforth area but you’ll have to take it to go, as shops are heeding the medical health officer’s advice to offer takeout.

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Whitney Junior Public School
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Students, staff at Rosedale school warned of coronavirus exposure

March 9, 2020March 11, 2020 Vatché Ayvazian coronavirus, COVID-19, Eileen de Villa, Whitney Junior Public School

Students and staff at Whitney Junior Public School are being asked to monitor their health after a school visitor tested positive for coronavirus.

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Streeter News, Views and Things To Do are selected from neighbourhoods across Toronto. For local news only, see our community pages:

• The Beach
• Cabbagetown
• Don Mills
• East Danforth
• East York
• Forest Hill
• Leaside
• Leslieville
• North Toronto
• Parkview-O’Connor
• Riverdale
• Upper Beaches
• Woodbine Heights

We are adding more communities and more features daily. Check back for news, views and things to do in your neighbourhood.

That was then.

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

November 19, 2020February 6, 2023 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danforth 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

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