16 h. ago Huge Toronto summer festival features lineup stacked with international artists

Toronto's summer festival calendar is getting a huge dose of global sounds and rhythm this July with the return of the annual Mixto Festival. The free two-day celebration of international music, art, and culture along Toronto's waterfront takes place on July 12 and 13 this year, marking the festival's seventh edition. The festival is produced by Toronto-based cultural organization Uma Nota Culture, which is known for its unique programming, block parties, and community panels. Part of the Ontario Place Trillium Park SummerSeries, the festival includes two packed days of live music and DJs, dancing, art installations, food and craft vendors, and a licensed bar.     View this post on Instagram           A post shared by Mixto Festival (@mixtofestival)True to its name, Mixto (which means "mixed" in both Portuguese and Spanish), the festival is built on diversity, and plays on...

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53 h. ago Ontario park with ancient volcano and giant cliffs looks like 4km

Just east of Thunder Bay, Ontario, a huge silhouette stretches along the horizon of along Lake Superior. It looks just like a huge, sleeping human stretching kilometres— and the namesake of a popular provincial park. That natural rock formation is known as the Sleeping Giant, the eroded remains of an ancient volcano that erupted nearly 1.1 billion years ago during the Midcontinent Rift. The park, aptly named Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, sits along the north shore of Lake Superior on the Sibley Peninsula. It boasts wide landscapes and massive lakeside cliffs, a wonder to anyone curious enough to visit. At Sleeping Giant, see cliffs that are almost 250 meters wide. Photo: Brester Irina/ShutterstockThe Sleeping Giant's mass formation of rocks resembles a row of mesas and cliffs that appear to form an almost four-kilometre-long body, seemingly snoozing in the distance, complete with cliffs that resemble a face, a chest, and a stomach. The cliffs car...

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9 d. ago Ontario park has breathtaking landscapes formed by 450 million

If you're looking for a getaway with a celestial connection, look no further: Slate Islands Provincial Park has some of the best views of any Ontario Park. And it's all, apparently, thanks to a giant, prehistoric crater. Slate Islands, just outside of Terrace Bay, Ont., is a tranquil and picturesque wonder, situated in the far northern part of Lake Superior. The impact of a meteor that struck the area 450 million years ago forged the Slate Islands, an Ontario park like no other. The islands form a seven-kilometre-wide archipelago with two main islands and five smaller ones. Ontario parks with rugged shorelines and clear blue waters are plentiful, but this park is unique in a very different way. It happens to be the best-preserved, medium-sized meteor impact structure on Earth, according to the Ontario Geological Survey. Most of the crater's impact can only be seen underwater, although some of it peaks from above. Pho...

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1 week ago Marineland looking to sell amusement rides as Ontario park ‘evolves’

A news release published Tuesday indicates Marineland is making its rides available for purchase by amusement operators, entertainment companies and other qualified buyers.

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1 week ago Ontario city shutters dog park over concerns for potentially lethal soil contaminants

A dog park in the east end of Hamilton was closed by the city after a survey of the soil showed it may contain contaminants that are harmful to dogs.

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3 w. ago Toronto tenant fears homelessness amid alleged ‘bad faith’ eviction

A disabled man in Toronto faces eviction after nearly 50 years in his High Park apartment after Ontario's top court denied his appeal despite claims of bad faith.

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3 w. ago Two people seriously injured in Bluffer’s Park stabbings: Cops

Two people are in hospital with serious injuries following a stabbing spree Friday night at Bluffer’s Park. Toronto Police said in a social media update that officers responded at approximately 7:30 p.m. to reports of several people stabbed at the Scarborough park, at Brimley Rd. south of Kingston Rd., along Lake Ontario. According to police, […]

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3 w. ago Underrated Ontario provincial park has wooden lookout with unmatched views

Nestled on the Niagara Escarpment just a little outside of Collingwood, Ontario, is an underappreciated, concealed treasure of a provincial park that boasts hiking trails, limestone outcrops out of a rock climber's dreams, and a wooden viewing deck with unbelievable views of a gorge below.While Devil's Glen Provincial Park may have a sinister name, it is a heavenly natural wonderland just begging to be explored, often going overlooked in favour of some of the province's bigger parks, as well as some of the area's other attractions.The off-the-beaten-path feel of Devil's Glen is part of what makes it so appealing, with its small, easy-to-miss parking lot, quiet and rugged trails, serene vantages of the beautiful Ontario wilderness and, most often, nary another human in sight.You can hike down to the Mad River that carves a valley deep through the green space (a valley that Parks Ontario says is "geologically significant"), challenging...

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3 w. ago Toronto doctor’s patients allege neglectful obstetrical and gynecological care

Esther Park resigned from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario on April 30

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