Toronto Public Health says there has been a sudden increase in suspected overdose calls over the past week, raising concerns about the presence of “highly potent opioids” in the city’s unregulated drug supply. Paramedics responded to a total of 108 suspected overdose calls over a two-day period earlier in the week, three of which ended … Read more
TORONTO – Ontario health officials are reporting more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time since late spring. The province on Friday confirmed 1,031 new cases of the new coronavirus. The last time the province reported more than 1,000 new cases in a single day was on May 30, when 1,033 new cases … Read more
During World War II, Rosina Taverniti began rolling gnocchi and kneading bread for hungry soldiers in a mountainous coastal town in southern Italy. “I was 14 years old,” she told CTV News Toronto. Now, at the age of 91, she is the nun of three Italian restaurants in Toronto, serving the recipes she first sank … Read more
TORONTO – The Greater Toronto area’s heated real estate market intensified further last month as home sales peaked in November and average selling prices reached a new record high. The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board reported Friday that 9,017 homes changed hands last month, a three percent increase from 8,728 the previous November. The average … Read more
A Mississauga man has been arrested after months of complaints from residents in a “night cruise” that keeps them awake at night. Mississauga resident Joseph Seli told CTV News Toronto last month that a person had frequented his neighborhood in the middle of the night, walked up and down Dovetail Mews and McMaster Road and … Read more
A Mississauga man has been arrested after months of complaints from residents in a “night cruise” that keeps them awake at night. Mississauga resident Joseph Seli told CTV News Toronto last month that a person had frequented his neighborhood in the middle of the night, walked up and down Dovetail Mews and McMaster Road and … Read more
A woman from Toronto has been forced to isolate herself for 14 days after returning from a day trip to the US and forgetting to fill out her ArriveCAN app. Laurie Fonseca spent only seven hours shopping across the border in Buffalo, New York, but when the fully vaccinated Mississauga woman and her friend were … Read more
A Catholic school in Etobicoke will be temporarily closed for personal learning as city health officials investigate COVID-19 cases linked to the school. Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) wrote on Twitter that following a recommendation from Toronto Public Health (TPH), the Transfiguration of Our Lord Catholic School will be fired from Friday “as a … Read more
The backlog at DriveTest centers across Ontario caused by COVID-19 is causing headaches for people trying to book road tests, and now some people are turning to third-party sites to book an appointment as soon as possible. “Since it reopened, it’s been too busy – I can’t get a deal anywhere,” Yogish Kumar, who finally … Read more
Downtown Toronto will be the first test site in North America for a short-term rental cooperative hoping to get ‘sharing’ back into the sharing economy. Fairbnb Co-op – launched by Toronto-based organizers who want to expand a European site – says it will share revenue with community projects, limit tourism to leases that do not … Read more