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Family Day 2020 includes a variety of recreational opportunities such as leisure swimming, skating, ski, arts, dance, sports and fitness as well as a sampling of locally programmed activities.

All programs are offered in a drop-in format with no pre-registration required. A full listing of open facilities and activities can be found at toronto.ca/familyday.

Family Day 2020 includes a variety of recreational opportunities such as leisure swimming, skating, ski, arts, dance, sports and fitness as well as a sampling of locally programmed activities.

All programs are offered in a drop-in format with no pre-registration required. A full listing of open facilities and activities can be found at toronto.ca/familyday.

Toronto City Council today adopted a report on Toronto's tree canopy that shows the city's urban forest canopy cover and tree population have grown over the last decade.

In general, the results of the tree canopy study are encouraging. The City’s investment in Toronto’s urban forest has grown from an annual budget of $31.1 million in 2008 to $68.7 million in 2018, for a total 10-year investment of $605.6 million. This commitment to maintaining, sustaining and growing the urban forest has directly supported the positive findings and trends described in the 2018 Tree Canopy Study.

January 28, 2020

Yesterday, we were notified of Toronto’s second presumptive confirmed case of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The individual recently travelled to Wuhan and is a close contact of the first presumptive confirmed case of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). We were not surprised to learn of this news as we have a very mobile population, with a lot of travel back and forth between Canada and China. I have been receiving many inquiries on this topic and I am therefore providing this update.

January 27, 2020 By David Nickle, Toronto.com
Almost a decade ago, in 2011, some Leslieville residents may have rolled their eyes when they heard former councillor Doug Ford and his brother, the late Mayor Rob Ford, chant “Subways, subways, subways,” as they pushed for underground mass transit instead of surface light rail lines in Scarborough. It is a chant that echoes with a certain irony now, as residents in that

Drop in at one of our winter open houses from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. to learn more about the Ontario Line.

Thursday, January 23rd Ontario Science Centre Telus Room 770 Don Mills Road North York, ON

Monday, January 27th Ryerson University Tecumseh Auditorium 55 Gould Street Toronto, ON

Tuesday, January 28th Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto Social Hall

The Budget Subcommittees will hear Public Presentations on the 2020 Capital and Operating Budgets at the locations and times listed below.

Members of the public may register to speak at one of these meetings by emailing [email protected] or by calling 416-392-4666, indicating the specific location and time.

Budget Subcommittee – City Hall and Etobicoke Civic Centre Consultations:

The City of Toronto invites artists who identify as Indigenous persons to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) to participate in the East End Bridges to Art - Coxwell Underpass Street Art Project. The goal of this Expression of Interest (EOI) is to obtain a roster of artists who will be eligible to participate in this project. The goal of this project is to beautify and animate the underpass with a mural representative of the local, historical indigenous perspective. This Expression of Interest is facilitated by Denise B. McLeod. Denise is Anishinaabe (Ojibway) who’s home territory is Sagamok Anishinabek First Nation on the north shores of Lake Huron.

December 30, 2019 Melissa Mancini & David Common · CBC News 

It was a knock at the door that ignited the battle.

As Yanick Marion hustled early one morning to get to work, the manager of his apartment building had a message: "You have to leave. You don't have a choice," he recalls.

The manager, Marion says, was insistent that electrical upgrades were needed in the aging 36-unit complex in Montreal.

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