7 h. ago Toronto man gets life sentence for the ‘senseless slaughter’ of his mother

A Toronto man who strangled his mother to death while he was out on bail has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years.

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11 h. ago There's a new 'tin foil hat' conspiracy theory about the Toronto Maple Leafs

If you've spent any time in your life debating the Toronto Maple Leafs, you've probably heard a conspiracy theory or two.Some people think that the NHL's higher powers — who infamously have their video replay centre in Toronto — do everything possible to help the Maple Leafs succeed on any given night, including getting favourable referee calls in comparison to other teams.As a counterpoint to that narrative, others point out that Toronto hasn't won a Stanley Cup since 1967 and has won just one playoff round since 2004.But in recent times, a new conspiracy theory surrounding the team is being parroted by a pair of media members: TNT's Paul Bissonnette and Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman.Matthew Tkachuk, Alexander Barkov, Sam Reinhart, and Sam Bennett have all been out for the Florida Panthers in recent games, all suffering various injuries.The Panthers have since been on a five-game losing streak, one that Bissonnette posits is so they can match up against the Leafs in the...

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3 d. ago Here's when you could see Toronto's cherry blossoms in full bloom for 2025

After a few false starts, there's no denying now that spring has officially sprung in Toronto, and with it comes the return of one of the city's most spectacular sights: the annual cherry blossom bloom in High Park.It's been a rollercoaster few weeks for Toronto, weather-wise, after blustry lows, an ice storm, biblical levels of rain fall and, to cap it all off, a summerlike Thursday with temperatures reaching 20 degrees Celsius. Not that I'm complaining — not about that last part, at least — but I couldn't help wondering how the dramatic temperature swings would affect the city's most-anticipated plant life.But according to the latest update from Toronto's resident cherry blossom expert, Sakura Steve, High Park's cherry blossoms appear to be utterly unfazed by the unpredictable weather.Steve says that, even in spite of nearly every type of weather imaginable being unleashed on the city within a seven-day span, the buds are continuing to grow, and have off...

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5 d. ago 10 Ontario companies named among best employers in one category for 2025

Canada's Top Family-Friendly Employers list for 2025 just dropped, and if you're simultaneously looking for a job while taking care of your little ones, you might want to consider these companies based in Ontario that provide a wide range of programs and initiatives, such as generous maternity and parental leave and daycare assistance. The annual designation recognizes the country's leaders who support employees as they balance work and family obligations.Employers are judged based on a wide range of policies, including paid personal and earned-days-off (EDO) programs, flexible work arrangements, compassionate leave, elder care assistance, adoption support, and reproductive assistance, such as fertility drugs and IVF.The competition also analyzes academic bursaries for employees' children, and any other programs that are designed to address work-life balance challenges. Many Toronto-based companies were recognized on this year's list, including Boston C...

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7 d. ago Downtown Toronto is still struggling despite some signs of life returning

Downtown Toronto has gradually recovered much of the vitality lost during the pandemic years, but the city centre is still struggling with a dearth of office workers even amid signs of life returning.New data in CBRE's just-released Q1 2025 Canada Office Figures report reveals that vacancy in downtown Toronto's gutted commercial market rebounded slightly during the first months of the year, but there's still a long way to go before things are even close to normal again.CBRE's figures show that Toronto fared better than other Canadian cities during the first quarter of 2025, with downtown office vacancy declining by 50 basis points to 18.5 per cent.While this leap marks the first substantial drop in vacancy recorded since the market took a nosedive in early 2020, there is still much ground to recover should vacancies ever drop to the figures seen in the before-times.Central Toronto's office market hit a record low vacancy rate of just 2.2 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2019. Howev...

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2 w. ago Disgusting blob of living slime found in Toronto's new engineered river

You know that unsettling feeling you get when you're swimming in a freshwater body, and some underwater plant grazes your foot? Well, what if I told you that researchers recently found a wriggling, fist-sized blob of slime at the artificially forged mouth of Toronto's Don River? And what if I added on the fact that this slimy specimen is actually an entire colony of living things?Hopefully I didn't catch you right at lunchtime with this information, but the facts remain — there's a living slime monster lurking in a Toronto waterway. Okay, maybe I got a little too ominous there, as this living mass of goop found in the new mouth of the Don is nothing to fear, and is actually a sign that the engineered waterway is developing into a healthy river mouth.It may look like a jellyfish species ready to deliver a potent sting, but this ball of gelatinous life is totally harmless.Waterfront Toronto reported the discovery of a bryozoan colony living in the mouth of the Don...

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2 w. ago Collection of Andy Warhol's rarest works and personal items coming to Toronto

A major exhibition featuring works by the founding father of Pop Art, Andy Warhol himself, is about to arrive in Toronto, providing a window into the iconic and enigmatic artist's life and work.Arriving at Taglialatella Galleries Toronto on April 10, Andy Warhol: Factory Made is a new exhibition featuring a dazzling collection of everything from personal items like clothes and accessories to some of the artist's best-known works.Born in Pittsburgh in 1928, the legendary artist spent much of the 60s, 70s and 80s cementing himself as an absolute authority of the Pop Art movement, creating often imitated, never duplicated works of everything and everyone as mundane as a can of soup 0r as extravagant as Queen Elizabeth II.The exhibit itself, much like Warhol's entire catalogue of work, will similarly run the gamut.Among the most exciting works set to be displayed are the iconic Campbell's Soup Cans (1968), Flowers (1970) and Marilyn Monroe (1967),...

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