Either the free air conditioning goes, or they do. That’s the circumstance about 30 neighbors in a Parkdale apartment complex find themselves in. If they don’t get rid of their A/C, or agree to pay an unspecified amount to keep it, their landlord plans to evict them. On Monday, dozens of long-term residents of 130 …
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Hospital director Sara Baker suffered a stroke in 2013 that her doctors said left her unable to work, but for six years her insurance company refused to pay her long-term disability benefits and spent 375 hours covertly surveilling her. On Friday night after a long-delayed five-week trial, a jury Baker $1.5 million in punitive damages …
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As the protection given by a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine begins to wane for many Canadians, the question is quickly rising of whether eligibility for a fourth shot should be expanded — and if so, when. It’s a topic on which infectious disease experts are not in universal agreement. Currently, a fourth dose of …
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A bank employee has been stabilized multiple times in Chinatown in an attempted bank robbery, Toronto police say. The man held up a bank near Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street West at about 1 pm The man jumped the counter and the employee was stabbed several times, according to police. Toronto paramedics say the employee …
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A new branch of COVID-19’s Omicron variant, BA.5, is poised to become dominant in Ontario, and experts are watching closely, as it’s much better at getting around immunity, whether that immunity is from a vaccine, prior infection or both. “That 50 per cent tip-over point is probably going to happen within this week, where it …
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GTA rent prices in May saw the largest monthly hike in more than three years at 5.7 per cent as supply tightens and demand surges. A new report by Bullpen Research & Consulting and TorontoRentals.com found the average monthly rent in the GTA increased by 16.5 per hundred year-over-year, from $1,998 in May 2021 to …
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Toronto is awash in rainbows. People of all ages dressed in brightly colored clothing and wrapped in flags representing every niche in the 2SLGBTQ+ community lined Toronto’s downtown streets Sunday for the annual Pride Parade. The parade, the first in-person pride march since 2019, drew massive crowds, filling Yonge and Church Streets, and a section …
In the seven years since a man with a history of violence against women murdered three women — his former partners Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam, and a woman who rejected him, Carol Culleton — in one day in rural Eastern Ontario, more than 280 women have been killed by their intimate partners in Canada. …
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Toronto is reviewing what it pays city lifeguards after their union said below-standard wages are contributing to an aquatics staff shortage that has canceled lessons for 1,140 swimmers. CUPE Local 79 has, for years, pushed the city to boost pay for lifeguards and swim instructors, given the responsibilities and qualifications demanded, said local president Casey …
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Toronto police say they have detained a man and dog after two violent robberies and an attempted boat theft Saturday morning that sent two people to hospital with serious injuries. Police were called about a carjacking near Third Street and Lake Shore Boulevard West just before 3 am According to police, a man allegedly attacked …
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