2 w. ago Falling tree in Venice injures a dozen people, including foreign tourists

MILAN — Foreign tourists were among a dozen people injured when a 50-year-old tree fell next to a bus stop in the Italian lagoon city of Venice on Monday, authorities said. The oak tree fell on a group of people waiting in a shaded area at Piazzale Roma, the last stop for buses and taxis […]

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2 w. ago Group pushes for faster action on growing city's tree canopy

(U of C professor Heather) Addy said the city's goal of 16 per cent trees coverage over land it owns should be nearly double that, a standard that's been met or sought by other Canadian centres....

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2 w. ago Family of man killed in Toronto bar fight with British soldier speaks at sentencing

The British corporal walked into court before the family of Brett Sheffield, the victim of the fatal assault, spoke about how his death has impacted their lives.

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3 w. ago Toronto man, 23, arrested after shots fired in Friday fight in Kanata

An arrest was made in Toronto last weekend.

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3 w. ago Google, Competition Bureau battle over possible constitutional challenge

TORONTO — Canada’s competition watchdog says it will fight a constitutional challenge from Google in a case alleging the tech giant abused its dominant position in the online advertising market. Filings made in the case this month say the Competition Bureau will ask the Competition Tribunal to strike Google’s proposed motion to proceed with a […]

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3 w. ago Months Of Organizing Pays Off as CUPE 2189 Members at YWCA Toronto Ratify Landmark New Deal

TORONTO — Over the course of months, a small cadre of dedicated labour activists turned a large but largely untested group of workers at the YWCA Toronto into a union prepared to fight for fair pay. It took hundreds of in-depth and often emotional conversations, union education, and strike training. The result was weekly informational […]

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3 w. ago Toronto fighting back against invasive insect that has killed 800K trees in city

Toronto is on the defensive with a plan to thwart the spread of an invasive scourge that has already killed millions of trees in Ontario, and more than 800,000 in the city alone since arriving in the region back in 2007.The City of Toronto announced on Friday the latest update in its plan to defend vulnerable ash trees by turning them into deadly traps to massacre local populations of the feared emerald ash borer.City officials stated in a press release that over 5,300 City-owned ash trees in Toronto will be injected with a protective insecticide that will, hopefully, halt the spread of these highly destructive invasive beetles that destroy trees by boring tunnels through their trunks.Damage to tree done by Emerald Ash Borer. Elena Berd/Shutterstock.comTrees are injected with a product known as TreeAzin Systemic Insecticide every two years to ward off borer populations and prevent damage to the at-risk species of tree.The insecticide targets borer larvae in the spring and summe...

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4 w. ago 'Clunky and chaotic' campaign to stop Toronto bus lane relies on fake AI people

A slew of local businesses and concerned residents in one Toronto neighbourhood are working together to fight a proposed bus lane... only, the residents you'll see featured on their community Instagram account aren't actually real.Take a stroll along Bathurst, particularly the strip between Dupont and Bloor, and you'll be immediately inundated with flyers in the windows of nearly every local business proclaiming that they "might have to close." I mean, seriously, you'd have an easier time listing off the businesses that aren't flying the flag. It's quite the sight.So, what's all the fuss about? Zoning issues? A proposed condo development? Nope — a bus lane.The TTC and City of Toronto are proposing to convert curbside lanes along Bathurst from Eglinton to Bloor into priority bus lanes, and Bloor to Lake Shore West into priority streetcar lanes as part of their city-wide RapidTO project, meant to tackle congestion and accelerate TTC ser...

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