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NEW: A city council-mandated Boat Exclusion Zone is coming into effect around Hanlan's Point beach later this month. Beachgoers have reported sexual assault and harassment from party boaters, who often come to shore inebriated and don't respect the queer space.

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Bike Share is launching on Toronto Island in a week. How will users know not to take their bike to the mainland? This handy sticker! (plus, the staff being deployed to various ferry terminals to tell them not to.)

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New legislation will allow the Ford government to skip notifying the public when it builds new infrastructure — including sewage outflows — at Ontario Place.

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I know @goldsbie.bsky.social could have come up with a better title than 'Mayor of Mayhem'...

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Big news for Christie Pitts baseball fans: The Toronto Maple Leafs' season starts Sunday and the team's new female pitcher from Japan is ready to hit the mound. Ayami Sato, 35, is the first woman to ever play for a semi-pro men’s team in Canada. She met her new Toronto teammates last week.

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Coun. Michael Thompson's sexual assault trial is not getting a lot of attention because it's taking place in Barrie — but it's really worth keeping an eye on.

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Here’s the story behind the anti-immigration protest that took place at Exhibition Place last weekend.

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The TDSB's PowerSchool platform promised months ago that stolen student data had been deleted — now it is revealed that the data was not destroyed, despite a ransom being paid, and the TDSB is now receiving new extortion threats.

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The Ford government is appealing an injunction stopping the province from tearing out Toronto bike lanes — days after the premier alleged the judge granted the injunction “not because of law” but “because of the ideology.”

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"If every person on Earth pitched in just over $2, Toronto could cover the cost of keeping its aging infrastructure — from roads and transit to public housing — functional over the next decade."

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City staff advise against building a pedestrian bridge to the Toronto Islands anytime soon. A bridge that won't impede shipping routes would cost at least $100M, per a new report.

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The future of St. Anne's church, destroyed by a fire last June, is becoming clearer. The Toronto church received $9M in an insurance settlement and plans to rebuild — although it won't be a replica of the domed cathedral that one was. www.torontotoday.ca/local/more-n...

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The future of Ontario

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In case you missed the "group scream" in Bellwoods this weekend — TorontoToday has a video:

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“The city needs to know that we as citizens really care about this issue... We want it on the front burner, and we’re hoping for some sort of results that really benefit neighbourhoods and shapes the city we want to see.” - @anotherglassbox.bsky.social www.torontotoday.ca/local/policy...

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Missed yesterday's Jane's walk led by @anotherglassbox.bsky.social and @moreneighboursto.bsky.social's Brian Cheung? Here's where they took participants interested in bringing retail stores back to Toronto’s residential neighbourhoods

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For the latest instalment of my column about Toronto film programmers, I spoke to the legendary @watchwithweird.bsky.social about Drag Me to the Movies at the Paradise. www.torontotoday.ca/local/arts-c...

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If you talk to me when I'm too stoned (which is always) i will, apparently, say the word "camp" a lot, but it is fitting! It was a treat to talk with @willsloanesq.bsky.social about what I do as I try to lure you in to watch a killer movie you've never heard of!

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Wondering if your school pool could be up for closure because of TDSB cuts? TorontoToday has a list which downtown school facilities could be on the chopping block.

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Cashiers at the Shoppers in Parkdale are now wearing body cams around their necks.

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🚨🚨 Toronto night mayor incoming 🚨 🚨

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An as-yet-underdiscussed piece of Monday's election night outcome: The huge increase in Conservative Party of Canada's vote share in downtown Toronto, which can't be chocked up to the collapse of the NDP.

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The TDSB is under pressure from the province to eliminate its deficit — music education for elementary school students could be on the chopping block. www.torontotoday.ca/local/educat...

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Media critic Jan Wong called coverage of the Grassy Narrows protest last fall "journalistic malpractice" after a government-commissioned reviewer concluded that pro-Palestine chants occurred for about five minutes of the eight-hour event. www.torontotoday.ca/local/educat...

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#New: In September, a furor erupted online over TDSB students supposedly having been forced to participate in an anti-Israel protest for a school field trip. But a new report, commissioned by the ministry of Ed. says the media got it wrong. www.torontotoday.ca/local/educat...

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Chrystia Freeland's University—Rosedale riding is peak 'fortress Toronto' for the Libs, but this campaign CPC signs sprouted in neighbourhoods where they were once a rarity. Here's the skinny on the city's most disjointed downtown riding from @patrickcain.bsky.social

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Taiaiako'n—Parkdale—High Park, a riding with no incumbent, had the highest advanced turnout of all downtown Toronto ridings. Former NDP MPP @bhutilakarpoche.bsky.social is squaring off against the Liberals @kbardeesy.bsky.social.

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It's midge season in Toronto ... but maybe that's a good thing

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An actually good local debate took place in Toronto this week.

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“We’d all like to think we threw the first brick,” director Noam Gonick said, referencing the incident that incited the Stonewall Riot in New York in 1969. “It’s good just to meet the people who did.”

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You know what, it's fun that the west continues to appropriate the word czar like this

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The City of Toronto will not add new red tape for rave organizers.

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