The City’s cherry blossom trees are in bloom and once again Torontonians can take in their beauty from the comfort of their own homes. To encourage everyone to stay home and stay safe, the City will offer #BloomAtHome, a 24-hour 4K BloomCam livestream during the peak bloom period
The BloomCam can be viewed at toronto.ca/cherryblossoms. In keeping with the provincial Stay-at-Home order and to slow the spread of COVID-19, the City has implemented measures to prevent crowding and gathering in High Park by closing public access to the cherry blossom groves.
High Park will remain open to ensure local pedestrians & cyclists can access the park for fresh air & exercise. To ensure people have ample space to practise physical distancing, the park will be closed to vehicle traffic for the duration of the bloom, including weekdays.
The allotment gardens in High Park remain open to permit holders. Cherry blossom trees at Cherry Hill, near the sports fields and at the Jamie Bell Playground are enclosed with fencing to deter crowding and prevent in-person viewing of the trees.
The cherry blossom trees at Trinity Bellwoods Park have also been enclosed with fencing, with enforcement patrols occurring during bloom period. More information about the cherry blossoms at toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/…
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#CityofTO has received updated regulations from the @ONgov & has modified City services & operations to align with the orders and direction from @epdevilla.
Toronto remains in the Shutdown Zone of the Province’s COVID-19 response framework and subject to a provincial Stay-at-Home order that has been extended until May 5. Everyone in the city should be staying home except for essential reasons.
Since the start of the pandemic there have been a total of 134,534 cases of COVID-19 in the city, an increase of 1,477 new cases today. There are 881 people hospitalized. To date, there have been 2,937 COVID-19 deaths in Toronto. Case status data: toronto.ca/home/covid-19/…
The City is working with its healthcare partners, pharmacies and @TOPublicHealth to administer all available COVID-19 vaccines with increasing efforts in COVID-19 hot spots. To date, more than 907,070 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Toronto.
The #CityofTO, with the support from staff in shelters, 24-hour respite sites, COVID-19 response sites, and outreach staff, will conduct Toronto’s fifth Street Needs Assessment (SNA) starting today. Learn more: toronto.ca/news/city-of-t…
The SNA is a city-wide point-in-time count and survey of people experiencing homelessness: toronto.ca/community-peop…
The initiative will be led by staff from City-administered shelters, 24-hour respite sites, COVID-19 response sites and outreach agencies, as well as staff in provincially-administered sites. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, volunteers were not recruited for this year’s SNA.
The City of Toronto is planning a pothole repair blitz on Saturday, April 17 to repair as many potholes as possible on Toronto’s major roads, neighbourhood streets, and expressways.
Crews will begin repairing as many potholes as possible starting at 6 a.m. Sat morning. Tomorrow’s blitz will see 32 crews (100 staff) repairing potholes throughout the city. City staff will work a 12-hour shift with appropriate physical distancing measures in place.
The City of Toronto has issued a new debenture for $350 million to help finance key capital projects. This is the City’s first debenture issuance this year, with a low all-in cost of 2.958 per cent.
This conventional bond issue, with a 30-year maturity and a coupon interest rate of 2.90 per cent, will mature on April 29, 2051. It was issued April 14 and will settle on April 29, 2021.
Meet Shawn. He is sharing part of his journey of street homelessness to securing housing through working with #CityofTO’s Streets to Homes (S2H). He says he’s appreciative of the work put in to attain his housing & we are thankful to have connected with him to secure housing.
Shawn has living outside for 10 years in Etobicoke South. He says he was thrown out by his mom & slept in coffee shops, parks & bus shelters, where he connected with the S2H outreach team.
While living outdoors Shawn says that several good samaritans tried to help him get off the streets to inside space, but he was afraid of being treated differently due to his circumstance. He adds that he did not know how to regain his purpose after so many years outdoors.