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Oct 22, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The majority of economists surveyed by the Star forecast that Toronto’s home prices are set to decline by 30 per cent or more from the February peak to spring 2023.
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This is a drop many economists would define as a housing crash — as the Bank of Canada continues to push interest rates upward to curb inflation.
And at least another three-quarter percentage point rate hike is coming next week.
Oct 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
If you could only describe Toronto in one word, what would it be?
Ahead of the city's election we asked 625 people in every region of the city. This is the good, the bad and the ugly of what they had to say.
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Toronto became majority non-white with the 2016 census and cultural neighbourhoods have always been a defining characteristic of the city.
That was top of mind for many Torontonians, in all wards.
“Midnights” might be the best album of Taylor Swift’s discography, writes @aisling_murph_. thestar.com/entertainment/…
Swift rifles through the pages of her personal life like a scrapbook, giggling at inside jokes and revelling in the creative choices that propelled her to stardom over a decade ago, says Murphy. thestar.com/entertainment/…
Oct 21, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#Breaking: The freeze is part of a swath of new measures announced by the government earlier this year, including a proposed new law to make it harder for certain people to own any firearms at all. torstar.co/QPOn50LhGLz
The law would also increase penalties for certain firearms-related crimes and is currently being studied by a parliamentary committee. thestar.com/politics/feder…
Oct 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
#BREAKING: Doug Ford will override municipal zoning to allow more housing across Ontario, confidential document reveals. thestar.com/politics/provi…
The Progressive Conservatives want to “remove rules that prevent missing middle” housing — multi-dwelling units curbed by local zoning laws favouring single-family homes, the Star has learned.
#Breaking: Ontario to provide parents $200 per child for students struggling with math trib.al/Ya7KPtb
The money is to cover private tutoring or supplies for their children — although parents aren’t expected to submit any proof of how it is spent — and applications are now being accepted online. thestar.com/politics/provi…
Oct 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Susan Lynch, a Toronto Community Housing resident, no longer sits in her backyard. Outside her door and throughout the neighbourhood is years-old rat bait.
“These aren’t little rats. They’re big... I feel complete anxiety and fear.” thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
Lynch and other neighbours have complained to the city about the rat issue without seeing much progress.
“It’s embarrassing to bring anyone here because that’s the first thing you see,” she said. thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
Oct 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#BREAKING: Jacob Hoggard sentenced to five years in prison for sex assault thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
“I believe (the victim). I accept her evidence in its entirety,” Justice Gillian Roberts said in a Toronto court Thursday. thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
Oct 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Toronto cannabis shoppers will be able to request cannabis deliveries through Uber Eats starting Monday.
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The food delivery platform announced a partnership with online marijuana marketplace Leafly on Sunday that will see it process pot orders for retailers Hidden Leaf Cannabis, Minerva Cannabis and Shivaa’s Rose.
In Canada, going through menopause “is like being sent on a canoe trip with no guidebook and only a vague idea where you are headed,” writes Canadian author Dr. Jen Gunter in “The Menopause Manifesto.”
But help may be coming.
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Davina McCall, an accomplished television anchor in the United Kingdom, thought she had a brain tumour or Alzheimer’s.
She couldn’t sleep. She had mental fog. She was depressed.
When the James Webb Space Telescope started sending Erik Rosolowsky photos of a distant galaxy, the first person he wanted to show was his Uncle Mike.
But the photo he sent to Uncle Mike was a far cry from the stunning full-colour images released by NASA. torstar.co/kRnN50LbcbA
The picture for Uncle Mike — a few light blobs on a dark background crisscrossed with banding — looked something like this:
Despite a perfect storm of crises in the food industry, including labour shortages, rising inflation and skyrocketing fuel prices, the city’s independent grocers have kept shelves fully stocked and prices low.
And Torontonians are taking notice.
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“We don’t have an expectation of making a ton of money,” said Linda Vieira, co-owner of the Kensington Fruit Market, which has been serving customers in the heart of Toronto’s famed Kensington neighbourhood for more than four decades.
For more than 50 years in politics, and over the last eight years as Toronto’s mayor, Tory has been homing toward the middle.
As the frontrunner in this high-stakes election, is he bold enough to lead Toronto out of its post-pandemic crisis?
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“He tends to campaign to the right and govern to the center-left, which works because it wedges both out,” said one long-time adviser.
“Look at him today, right? He’s got effectively no opponent.”
With the Toronto election on Oct. 24, the Star is looking at the ways in which the city can do better — the things that are broken and what we can do about it.
This story is about your taxes.
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Every year, when council decides its multibillion-dollar budget, it has the opportunity to choose how to spend on the services that matter most to Torontonians.
Supportive Living facilities are supposed to offer safe and affordable housing, but what health officials found inside one run by Hamilton entrepreneur Vishal Chityal was horrifying 🧵 torstar.co/HEl950La5m1
Before being shut down in July 2021, Walnut Manor was part of a growing chain of for-profit Supportive Living facilities for adults including those with addictions and mental health issues, and seniors who can’t get into long-term care.
Ontario’s pediatric hospitals are under tremendous strain amid a third pandemic fall, record-long waits in emergency departments and overcrowded inpatient units.
Now, some critically ill children are being sent hours away from home for ICU care. thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
“Unfortunately, we’re having to more frequently transfer children from their own region to another part of the province,” said Bruce Squires, president of McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton. thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
Oct 9, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The shock waves — political, legal and historical — from the self-styled “Freedom Convoy” have crashed through Canadian society for more than eight months.
And they’re about to surge again.
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On Thursday, long-anticipated — and delayed — public hearings are set to begin for the independent judicial inquiry tasked with probing what happened during those weeks last winter.
On a weekend when families are preparing to gather around the table for a meal, an army of workers is prepping to provide a growing number of Torontonians with basic necessities.
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Neil Hetherington, the CEO of the Daily Bread Food Bank — one of the country’s largest food banks — said 22 per cent of Canadians are planning to change what they’re eating this weekend amid rising food costs.
A trend of increasing COVID-19 outbreaks in Ontario long-term-care homes has experts worried that vulnerable seniors will once again bear the brunt of an expected fall wave of the virus.
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There are now 150 long-term-care homes in the province with active COVID outbreaks, according to the latest Public Health Ontario data.
That compares to just 14 at the same time last year and 51 this time back in 2020.
