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1 week ago | 
toronto.citynews.ca | Shauna Hunt |Meredith Bond
A major downtown Toronto intersection will be shutdown as of next week for the remainder of the summer, leading to the diversion of three TTC streetcars. The City will be replacing the watermains at King and Church streets as of May 11 and the TTC will also be replace the tracks and updating critical infrastructure at the same time. As a result, the 503 Kingston, the 504 King and the 508 Lakeshore streetcar routes will be diverting in both directions.
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1 month ago | 
toronto.citynews.ca | Shauna Hunt |Meredith Bond
A grieving Toronto family is now fighting to add safety barriers to the Leaside Bridge after their father was killed in what they believe was a preventable tragedy. It was an earth-shattering Father's Day that Tali Uditsky and Landon Lusthouse will never forget. Their vibrant 76-year-old father, Harold Lusthouse, was killed on his way to a family brunch. It happened on the Don Valley Parkway on June 16, 2024, when a man fell from the Leaside bridge and landed on a car Harold was in.
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1 month ago | 
toronto.citynews.ca | Shauna Hunt
As a temporary HART Hub opens in downtown Toronto following the Ontario government's move away from safe consumption services, seniors at a residence above the clinic have raised concerns with the . CityNews spoke with residents who said they were blind-sided after a clinic opened on the main floor of their co-op building on The Esplanade. It's also steps away from a daycare and elementary school.
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2 months ago | 
toronto.citynews.ca | Shauna Hunt |John Marchesan
Residents in Moss Park are voicing concerns over the growing encampment in St. James Park that includes not only tents, but tiny homes as well. Over the last several months, a mini-encampment has popped up in this downtown green space just steps away from a busy playground. Area resident Daniel Tate is worried it will continue to grow if the city doesn't intervene.
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2 months ago | 
toronto.citynews.ca | Lucas Casaletto |Shauna Hunt
Passengers aboard a Delta Air Lines flight from the U.S. that crashed and flipped over at Toronto Pearson Airport on Family Day are speaking out, sharing harrowing details of one of the most jarring incidents in recent aviation history. "When we hit, it was just super hard. The plane went sideways," John Nelson said in an interview with CityNews. "I believe we skidded on our side and flipped over on our back.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
toronto.citynews.ca | Lucas Casaletto |Shauna Hunt
A stretch of Toronto's Lake Shore East is quickly becoming known as a dangerous spot for drivers as concerns continue to mount over road safety in light of a recent crash that took the lives of four people. The area in question is a 1.5-kilometre stretch of the eastbound Lake Shore between Parliament Street and the Don Roadway. Since the winter, it has been the scene of two deadly accidents, including a fiery Tesla crash last week near Cherry Street. On Jan.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
toronto.citynews.ca | Shauna Hunt |Meredith Bond
Parents across the province could be left in the lurch as some daycare centres will be closing their doors next week in protest of the new funding formula for the $10-a-day childcare program. The protest involves dozens of private daycare operators who are currently participating in the national program and are taking issue with the upcoming funding changes in Ontario.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
toronto.citynews.ca | Shauna Hunt |John Marchesan
Andrew Bartucci is one of many parents grappling with the possibility that their childcare costs could soar in the new year after daycare operators warned upcoming funding changes could force many to pull out of the national $10-a-day program. CityNews obtained letters from three daycares in the GTA all citing ongoing challenges with the program and concerns with the new funding framework starting in January.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
toronto.citynews.ca | Shauna Hunt |Meredith Bond
Piash Alam has struggled with headaches, lack of sleep and the weight of a looming obstruction of justice charge in the days since he was pushed to the ground by an undercover police officer in Toronto. Alam, who spoke exclusively with CityNews alongside his wife Srishty and friend who witnessed it, has no memory of the push that left him with a fractured skull.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
toronto.citynews.ca | Shauna Hunt |Denio Lourenco
A City-owned parking lot in the heart of Kensington Market will soon be the site of 78 new affordable housing units. "We are having a housing crisis and people are dying on our streets in just sheer desperation," Mayor Olivia Chow told reporters as she visited the site on Monday. The proposed building located at 35 Bellevue Avenue will consist primarily of studio and one-bedroom apartments and is just steps away from a parkette where dozens of people are living in tents.
