News/Canada/Toronto (Page 45)

Premier Doug Ford’s government is facing corporate pressure to change Ontario’s plan that sees industry taking on the full cost of blue box recycling programs, CBC News has learned. Two organizations led by some of Canada’s biggest supermarket chains, retailers and consumer goods companies want Ontario’s blue box regulations amended,Continue Reading

Toronto Three Greater Toronto Area restaurant owners say they are feeling the “Keith Lee effect” after the TikTok food critic came to town to sample their offerings. ‘Keith Lee effect’ is real, say 3 restaurant owners whose businesses got boost from visitCBC News · Posted: Apr 09, 2024 10:45 PMContinue Reading

Toronto The Toronto Blue Jays won their home opener last night, but some fans were still angry. Not at the game, but at the placement of a longtime icon in the stands: Home Plate Lady. The longtime fan was off to the side and the internet had concerns Natalie Stechyson ·Continue Reading

Should police officers who fatally shot a mentally ill man in crisis have their names shielded from the public? That’s the question facing Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice as a hearing gets underway Tuesday in a lawsuit by the family of Ejaz Choudry, a father of four with schizophrenia shotContinue Reading

Toronto Annual autism job fair aims to help seekers, employers connectMonday marks the 8th annual Spectrum Works autism job fair. Organizers and participants say the fair helps fill labour shortages with an underutilized and underestimated part of the population. Over 40 employers, nearly 1,500 job seekers registered for virtual event,Continue Reading

A couple in an affluent midtown Toronto neighbourhood is asking the city to remove the heritage designation from their century home because they say the original owner was racist.  The two-and-a-half storey, 9,000-square foot house in the Yonge and St. Clair area, was built in 1906 for Stapleton Pitt Caldecott, a formerContinue Reading

Toronto Ford Motor Co. is delaying the start of electric vehicle production at its plant in Oakville, Ont., by two years. The U.S. automaker had planned to start production at the plant, which employs 2,700 workers, in 2025 and is pushing that back to 2027. Spokesperson says layoffs will beContinue Reading

Toronto Cancer can’t keep this Brampton teen from his hockey dreamBrampton’s Eli Craig says nothing can keep him from his dream of playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs — not even radiation and chemotherapy for a rare form of cancer. Eli Craig, 13, plays for Brampton 45s U14 and hasContinue Reading

Toronto Ford doubles down on refusal to allow fourplexes provincewidePremier Doug Ford doubled down Wednesday on his refusal to force municipalities to allow fourplexes on residential land, a move that could jeopardize Ontario’s access to billions of dollars in federal housing funds. Allowing fourplexes ‘as of right’ is a conditionContinue Reading