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Wireless internet project to connect Corktown

Local resident creates neighbourhood internet initiative By Dan Misener – If you have have a wireless card in your computer, chances are you see the names of your neighbours’ WiFi networks from time to time. Does “default” or “linksys” or ...

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Toronto’s concrete slab apartments to get green retrofit

Two sites in the Downtown core have already been selected to participate in the pilot project By Bulletin Staff – The environment and residents in Toronto’s thousand, decades-old concrete slab apartment towers will be the beneficiaries of Mayor’s Tower Renewal, an ...

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Toronto Island trip brings officers closer to kids

A trip to the Toronto Islands made positive waves in the South and West Asian community, with police officers coming together with youth. The Toronto Police Service South and West Asian Consultative Committee (S&WCC) hosted a BBQ at Long Pond ...

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Yonge and Dundas gets ‘scramble crosswalk’

The City of Toronto is signalling a new direction in traffic management with a pedestrian priority phase implemented at the intersection of Yonge and Dundas Sts. With the introduction of this new initiative, the city is giving priority status to pedestrians ...

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TTC and EMS team up for subway paramedic pilot project

The Toronto Transit Commission and Toronto Emergency Medical Services are teaming up to provide an EMS paramedic in the subway system during the busy morning and afternoon rush hour periods. The paramedic will be accompanied at all times by a ...

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Toronto welcomes solar taxi at Nathan Phillips Square

Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone welcomed Swiss-citizen Louis Palmer to Toronto and took a ride in the solar taxi he’s driving around the world to raise awareness about global climate change and promote the use of solar energy. Mr. Palmer’s world ...

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Local water experts team up to protect Toronto drinking water

New initiative from the Ministry of the Environment and local conservation authorities is aimed at protecting drinking water in Ontario for years to come By Nicholas Schulz – The CTC Source Protection Committee represents the municipal, business, general public and ...

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Shopsy’s restos had no Listeria-tainted meats

Tainted meats weren’t produced by Shopsy’s or sold in its restaurants By Frank Touby – No listeriosis-contaminated meats are or have been served at Shopsy’s Restaurants, says owner Gavin Quinn. “We share a brand with Maple Leaf Meats,” Quinn says, ...

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Dangerous listeria found in ready-to-eat deli meats

Click on the link in the article below to find out which meats were affected By Bulletin Staff – Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health is advising the public that  there is an outbreak of Listeriosis in the province. Listeriosis ...

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Demolition makes way for new aquatics complex in Regent Park

The demolition of townhouses and an apartment complex at 230 Sumach St. is in progress to make way for the city of Toronto to construct an indoor aquatics complex in Regent Park, which will be located in a new central ...

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