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Whether it was expertly handling a breaking news story minutes before deadline or leaning his motorcycle deep into the diving left Turn 2 at Mosport Park, journalist Dave Dutton was the epitome of grace under pressure.
Well, maybe not the grace part. Dutton, who died Friday afternoon at The Ottawa Hospital of COVID-19, was an old-school newsman who cared little for niceties. His profane outbursts on the Ottawa Citizen night editing desk were legendary and his fellow editors, and the reporters he guided and mentored, loved him for it.
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A Toronto family has been decimated by COVID-19.
Every member of the Piazza family got seriously ill: Mom Teresa Piazza was intubated and in and out of consciousness for weeks before she started to pull through.
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The family let her get her strength back a little before breaking the news that her only son had died of COVID.
Aspiring chef Frank Piazza, 30, died on April 11.
Nobody in his family could attend his funeral his mother was near death in hospital and his father, Albert, pregnant sister Sylvia and her partner Joshua were also hospitalized with COVID-19.
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Toronto increasingly out-of-reach for first-time buyers
It’s been dubbed ‘the rise of the suburbs.’ People have been craving more space as they work from home amid the pandemic and buoyed by expectations that remote work is here to stay, they’re still relocating from Toronto to the suburbs.
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“During the first wave of the pandemic, we saw a massive shift from urban centres to small towns and suburban neighbourhoods,” says Phil Soper, president and CEO of Royal LePage. “Across the country, the revival of these secondary cities has become a driving force of the market, attracting buyers of all ages.”
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Toronto neighbourhood pushes back against ousting businesses for subway yard
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There has been a slew of opposition to various aspects of the plan for the Ontario Line, the $11 billion subway project that will run 15 stops across Toronto, cutting travel time from Exhibition Place to the Science Centre down to just 30 minutes.
Much of the public s concern has been about the portions of the 16 km route that are due to be built above ground in part to save on time and expenditures and what businesses, public spaces and even homes may be lost in the process.