“It’s (like) leaving a car in a hot parking lot,” marine biologist Chris Harley told the Star. Extreme heat temperatures, rising up to 40 C in Vancouver, had caused sea animals like mussels, clams and snails to cook to their death. Video: @kelseyleewilson thestar.com/news/canada/20…
Harley roughly estimates that a total of one billion animals died in the Salish Sea off the coast of Vancouver during the heat wave, but says his team is still gathering data and whatever the actual number is, it’s massive. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
Death of a mass amount of mussels will also impact other animals that rely on them for food like starfish and sea ducks that migrate back and forth from Alaska.
There’s no immediate solution to the devastation of climate change, but Harley says there is one major thing to do in order to make our futures cooler, better and safer — reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In Oshawa, $700,000 may get you the best deal if you’re willing to move further out of Toronto. torstar.co/D15V50FrNl4
This detached 4+1 bedroom home in Oshawa is one of the best priced houses you can find across the GTA.
Other similar homes in Toronto are going for more than double the price of this detached home in Oshawa. thestar.com/business/perso…
Specifically looking at houses in Toronto, one in the Broadview North, is on sale for over $1.3 million and a home in the Bloor West Village going for almost $1.5 million. thestar.com/business/perso…
NEW: Independent MP and former Liberal justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says she won’t run in the next election. thestar.com/politics/feder…
“It has become more and more toxic and ineffective while simultaneously marginalizing individuals from certain backgrounds,” said Wilson-Raybould in a letter she tweeted Thursday. thestar.com/politics/feder…
“Federal politics is, in my view, increasingly a disgraceful triumph of harmful partisanship over substantive action.”
Toronto planned to clear out four major homeless encampments by the end of April, internal emails confirm. torstar.co/5lny50FrBkm
The city backed off an April 6 deadline given to camp occupants, saying at the time that trespass notices were only meant to “guide peoples’ decision making.” thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
The Star obtained the emails through a freedom of information request.
They outlined the city’s initial April plan, and revealed some of the public pressure officials faced to remove the homeless camps from parks and other locations. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
A 10,000 square foot building in downtown Toronto will soon be home to a Black creative community space run by Black Lives Matter activists. torstar.co/IoVK50FrBzE
The Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism, which is Black-owned and operated, aims to provide a radical space for Black creativity and organizing. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
.@sandela, a founder of Black Lives Matter Canada and its Toronto chapter, said having a permanent space for Black communities has been the organization’s dream for years. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
Toronto will operate phone banks and run a ground game — putting pop-up, multi-day clinics in the common rooms and parking lots of buildings with low vaccination rates, starting in the city’s northwest. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
“In many ways this home stretch vaccine push — well, it’s similar to the polio campaigns of the 1950s. Those campaigns went building-by-building to get people vaccinated,” said @joe_cressy thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…