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- Automotive
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2 people taken to hospital following collision: Toronto paramedics
TTC routes are back on a regular schedule following a Tuesday morning crash that sent two people to the hospital and temporarily detoured streetcars. Toronto paramedics tell CP24 the crash happened at around 7:15 a.m. in the Bathurst and Dundas streets area. They say two adult patients were brought to the hospital. One with serious, non life-threating injuries was taken to a trauma centre and the other person sustained minor injuries. The TTC had detoured the 511 Bathurst streetcar for a couple hours as a result. The City of Toronto says both southbound and northbound lanes of Bathurst from Dundas Street West to Robinson Street have also reopened. Police have not said the cause of the crash.
CTV News
31-07-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Toronto's new renovictions bylaw comes into effect, aimed at protecting tenants
A for rent sign outside a home in Toronto on Tuesday July 12, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston A new Toronto bylaw targeting renovictions comes into effect today, requiring landlords to get a licence before carrying out repairs or renovations that force tenants to move out. The City of Toronto says the new bylaw is designed to protect tenants from 'bad faith' evictions that happen under the guise of renovations. The city says landlords looking to get a rental renovation licence must now notify tenants of their intentions and agree on the renter's temporary living arrangements or compensation. It says the licence is required even if tenants intend to return to their units once renovations are complete. Landlords must apply for the licence within seven days of giving notice of ending tenancy — known as an N13 notice — to the renter. The city says renters who suspect landlords are not following the new bylaw can report them to the city. This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 31, 2025. The Canadian Press
CBC
31-07-2025
- Business
- CBC
Toronto's new renovictions bylaw comes into effect, aimed at protecting tenants
A new Toronto bylaw targeting renovictions comes into effect Thursday, requiring landlords to get a licence before carrying out repairs or renovations that force tenants to move out. The City of Toronto says the new bylaw is designed to protect tenants from "bad faith" evictions that happen under the guise of renovations. The city says landlords looking to get a rental renovation licence must now notify tenants of their intentions and agree on the renter's temporary living arrangements or compensation. It says the licence is required even if tenants intend to return to their units once renovations are complete. Landlords must apply for the licence within seven days of giving notice of ending tenancy — known as an N13 notice — to the renter. The city says renters who suspect landlords are not following the new bylaw can report them to the city.
Yahoo
31-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Toronto's new renovictions bylaw comes into effect, aimed at protecting tenants
A new Toronto bylaw targeting renovictions comes into effect today, requiring landlords to get a licence before carrying out repairs or renovations that force tenants to move out. The City of Toronto says the new bylaw is designed to protect tenants from "bad faith" evictions that happen under the guise of renovations. The city says landlords looking to get a rental renovation licence must now notify tenants of their intentions and agree on the renter's temporary living arrangements or compensation. It says the licence is required even if tenants intend to return to their units once renovations are complete. Landlords must apply for the licence within seven days of giving notice of ending tenancy — known as an N13 notice — to the renter. The city says renters who suspect landlords are not following the new bylaw can report them to the city. This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 31, 2025. The Canadian Press Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
18-07-2025
- General
In Canada's largest city, a river returns to its roots
For about a century, Toronto's Don River (new window) has been hemmed in by the needs of a growing city. It flows through a valley that's better known for a crucial (and traffic-prone) highway that connects the suburbs to Toronto's downtown. The river's mouth, at Lake Ontario, is a wasteland of industrial facilities and port facilities, despite its prime location just east of the downtown core. That's set to change this weekend, with the public opening of part of a $1.4-billion restoration project at Toronto's port lands. Biidaasige Park (new window) , part of one of Canada's most ambitious ecological restoration projects (new window) , was driven by a push to renaturalize the Don River's mouth as a way to control floods and protect a giant mixed-use redevelopment effort in the area. It's really something to celebrate because the river has for so long been in a concrete box, said David O'Hara, manager of park design at the City of Toronto. And it's now free again and flowing through the kind of environment that it had flowed through for thousands of years before industrialization changed it. Biidaasige Park — pronounced Bee-daw-si-geh and meaning sunlight shining towards us in Anishinaabemowin — covers about 60 acres and is one of the largest and most complex parks in Toronto. It is on Ookwemin Minising (new window) (meaning "place of the black cherry trees"), an island that was newly created by carving out a more naturally meandering outlet for the Don River at the city's waterfront. The new outlet adds to the existing Keating Channel, which was built at the start of the 20th century. Back then, the Don's natural mouth was filled in, and its waters were diverted into the Keating. While the Keating was originally enough to contain the flow of water, development and other changes over time made the existing channel inadequate, according to Waterfront Toronto's chief planning and design officer, Chris Glaisek. The new, more natural outlet is actually designed to flood — allowing water to go over its banks and the river to do what it needs to do without causing too much damage and disruption, he said. That's something the original channel was not designed to do. It was designed to simply contain the water — and it's very tough to control nature, Glaisek said. Without renaturalizing the Don River and creating new ecosystems to absorb rising waters, the port lands and some surrounding neighbourhoods would be flooded during extreme weather events. Climate change is expected (new window) to make storms both more frequent and severe, increasing the risk of floods in the city. Planners expect all that land should now be safe from being inundated, and the city plans to build over 14,000 new housing units there. It isn't simply about ecology just for ecology's sake, but it's also to create a new type of community that will have a different relationship to nature … a more integrated way of living with nature in an urban environment, Glaisek said. While flood control is the primary goal of the project, the new river is also bringing species back to the area. Previous analyses (new window) have shown that densely populated southern Ontario is an important area for ecological restoration. Restoring natural ecosystems would bring the most benefits for local residents and threatened species by helping provide clean water, drain floods and reduce the severity of heat waves in cities. This is certainly a resiliency project, without a doubt, because the risk of these flash floods has only increased with time, with urbanization, with climate change, Glaisek said. The ecological impacts of the project are already being seen. We have a few new species of fish that have come back to the harbour that hadn't been seen here in 80 years, Glaisek said. Bald eagles are being spotted there, along with fish like smallmouth bass, bluegill (new window) and pumpkinseed (new window) . The park has been planted with native plant species from southern Ontario, including some seeds that were unearthed (new window) during the island's construction, like cattail and bulrush that were 100 years old. Many plants important to local Indigenous ceremonies and medicine are also in the park, like sweetgrass, sage and black cherry trees.. A lot of this will be seen for the first time as Torontonians visit the park for its opening celebrations this weekend. But perhaps the most remarkable sight will be the new Don River, flowing more freely into the lake for the first time in over a century. It looks like the mouth of the river has been there forever. It really is spectacular, O'Hara said.
