When faced with who to trust on vaccines between a friend who speaks their language and shares their faith or a doctor in a white lab coat they don’t know the choice is simple, writes Sadi Muktadir.
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.
Posted: Apr 29, 2021 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 29
Owner Iqbal Malek says his grocery store served up to 20,000 customers per week before the pandemic. The store specializes in halal products that aren t easily found elsewhere.(Paul Borkwood/CBC)
Iqbal Malek has spent more than three decades growing his halal grocery store into a mainstay in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood.
But he may have to move his business to make way for a new Metrolinx facility to service the Ontario Line, a 15-stop subway route slated to run 16 kilometres from the Ontario Science Centre to Ontario Place. It was very surprising and really shocking, said Malek.
Published Thursday, April 8, 2021 5:08PM EDT The Ontario government announced recently that people over the age of 18 living in neighborhoods disproportionately affected by COVID-19 would be soon eligible for a vaccine. The government released some details during the provincewide stay-at-home order announcement on Wednesday, but many questions remained on who would be eligible for the expanded rollout and how and when they could book. CTV News Toronto has looked into these questions, and compiled a list of everything you need to know about the changes.
Who is eligible? The Ontario government says the province will start vaccinating education workers the week of April 12, including staff who work with special education students and staff in high-risk neighbourhoods in Toronto and Peel Region.
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Five pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinics will run in Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park this weekend By NOW Staff
Courtesy of Michael Garron Hospital
A pop-up vaccine clinic in the courtyard of a Thorncliffe Park high-rise apartment building on April 8.
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Michael Garron Hospital setting up pop-up clinics in East Toronto
2:30 pm Five pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinics will run in Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park to April 11, Michael Garron Hospital said this week.
The locations are: Flemingdon Park Shopping Centre, Masjid Darussalam Thorncliffe Mosque, Iqbal Halal Foods and lobbies and courtyards of select high-rise apartment buildings.