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Article content Wave three of COVID-19 is underway in Ontario, the province’s scientific advisers have declared, and there are concerns that more people could end up in intensive care than during wave one or two. While some doctors cautioned it may be too soon to call a third wave, the new “variants of concern” account for more than half — 53 per cent — of new infections in Ontario, Dr. Peter Jüni, scientific director of Ontario’s COVID-19 science table said ...

Published Tuesday, March 16, 2021 11:16AM EDT Last Updated Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12:00PM EDT A busy stretch of Yonge Street could soon be transformed with the addition of bicycle lanes, on-street patios and other public realm improvements. City staff are recommending that a 3.2 kilometre stretch of Yonge Street from Bloor Street to Davisville Avenue be revamped as part of a complete streets pilot project. The changes would be similar to the transformation of...

  TORONTO -- A busy stretch of Yonge Street could soon be transformed with the addition of bicycle lanes, on-street patios and other public realm improvements. City staff are recommending that a 3.2 kilometre stretch of Yonge Street from Bloor Street to Davisville Avenue be revamped as part of a complete streets pilot project. The changes would be similar to the transformation of Danforth Avenue last summer and would include on-street patios, streetscape improvements, temporary bikeways, s...

PITTSFIELD — Her words captured the power of memory to create the eternal: As long as you remember someone, they never die. They were spoken a few years ago by the Rev. M. Louise Williamson as she eulogized the Rev. Willard Durant, under whom she had served as pastor’s associate at Price Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church in Pittsfield. She spoke of the power of their lives, which intersected with her own after she moved from the Deep South to Pittsfield, where she forged a path of faith, fa...

An Ontario Superior Court judge has accepted, in a preliminary decision in Price v Smith & Wesson Corp, 2021 ONSC 1114, that gun manufacturers may have civil liability in Canada for losses caused by mass shootings when feasible safety measures could have prevented the harm but were not used. The Danforth Shooting In summer 2018, a mass shooting on Danforth Avenue in Toronto involving a stolen handgun claimed the lives of two people and injured many others. The stolen handgun was an M&P®40, de...

  TORONTO -- If there’s one thing the western stretch of the Danforth, a busy street in Toronto’s east end, suddenly isn’t short of, it’s cannabis stores. First it was Canvas, a brightly lit store in a former diner, part of a small local chain. Then, ten minutes’ walk down the street, Friendly Stranger, owned by national chain Fire & Flower, opened up shop. Then Green Merchant, part of a small local chain, opened a store across the street from the Friendly Stranger. Finally, Cano...

Somebody stole a TTC uniform and Toronto police are on the case Stay in the loop Sign up for our free email newsletter. Unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details. Toronto Police are on the hunt for a mysterious bandit who, for some reason, stole three TTC Special Constable uniforms and some body armor from the transit agency late last week. As for what the thief intends to do with their new threads... your guess is as good as mine, but the fact that police have issued ...

Greek diaspora: Which cities have the largest Greek population outside of Greece? Search for: The fact that there is another little Greece outside of the borders of the country, might sound a little excessive to some, but it is true indeed! According to the latest estimates of the General Secretariat of Hellenes Abroad, today there more than 5,000,000 people of Greek origin that live outside of the Greek borders, scattered in 140 countries across the globe. The first big wave of immigration fro...

Overall daily case counts continued to trend downwards, but Tam said the at least 704 cases of variants of concern could fuel a bigger third wave of the…

Article content Tragedy is a crucible; activism is forged in its fire. It smoulders in individuals marked by loss and injustice. It burns brightest when tragedies are preventable; inadequate safety measures, legislative loopholes, or outright negligence add fuel to the fire. Some reforms are easily won: Nobody makes their last stand against speed bumps in a school zone. Then there’s gun-control activism, which is like pushing a stalled car up a steep hill — even when the forest below is abl...