PHOTOS: Flooding, trees down after intense storms slam GTA
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mercredi, 8 juillet 2020 à 20:29 - Environment Canada issued a Tornado Watch for parts of southern Ontario Wednesday afternoon, including for the City of Toronto, as severe thunderstorms tracked through.
Residents across southern Ontario are repairing damages and managing floods after severe thunderstorms tracked through on Wednesday afternoon.
A thunderstorm showing broad rotation induced by a lake breeze prompted Environment Canada to issue tornado watches, including for the City of Toronto, Wednesday at 2:51 p.m. ET. At the same time, heavy rainfall was being reported with localized flooding.
Flooding in Etobicoke, Ont., on July 8. Courtesy: The Weather Network
“If built, the road will raze 2,000 acres of farmland, cut across 85 waterways and pave nearly 400 acres of protected Greenbelt land in Vaughan. It would also disrupt 220 wetlands and the habitats of 10 species-at-risk, according to the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority,” according to the report.
The project is a ghost road; it’s been bandied about since its introduction in 2005 in various incarnations, but was killed by the previous Liberal government in 2018 as being too dangerous to the environment, including flood plains. Ford brought it roaring back, despite in 2018 saying, “[t]he people have spoken – we won’t touch the greenbelt. Very simple. That’s it, the people have spoken. I’m going to listen to them, they don’t want me to touch the greenbelt, we won’t touch the greenbelt. Simple as that.”
The Globe and Mail Published April 13, 2021
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During Toronto’s last great construction boom which lasted from, say, 1955 to 1980 something magical began on a random day in 1959. A few dump trucks loaded with, perhaps, pieces of a Victorian-era, carved sandstone building (demolished to make way for a new, glassy one) were dumped into the lake at the foot of Leslie St. in the city’s light-industrial east end.
Eventually, with the construction of the Bloor-Danforth Subway, dozens more glassy skyscrapers, and the general movement of earth required to build a modern city, the Toronto Harbour Commissioners had, rubbly bit by rebar-encrusted bit, created a breakwater that stretched out like a long finger into Lake Ontario.
April 7, 2021 · 0 Comments
By ROB PAUL
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Libraries are generally full of people of all ages looking to take advantage of their numerous books and programs to learn and connect with others. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how libraries in Caledon operate, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t offering residents something to do.
Caledon Public Library has worked hard to ensure people from across the area are still able to enjoy their programming, just through a different lens with their shift to the online world.
Although the province is still dealing with the pandemic and widespread closures, Caledon Public Library has a jam-packed spring to keep people busy while they’re in lockdown at home.
Posted: Apr 06, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 6
After years of conflicts between mourners and other users of Bluffers Park, Coun. Gary Crawford says it s time that the city established a designated spot where mourners can scatter ashes of their loved ones.(Sue Goodspeed/CBC)
A Toronto councillor wants the city to establish at least one designated ash-scattering place for mourners, after years of conflict between bereaved families and other users of Bluffers Park in Scarborough.
Coun. Gary Crawford, who represents Ward 20, Scarborough Southwest, said faith groups often use Bluffers Park for post-funeral rites, which can anger other park users who see the scattering of funeral ashes as water pollution. His ward includes the Bluffers Park neighbourhood.