Toronto has accepted Ottawa’s offer to use the Better Living Centre at Exhibition Place as an emergency shelter. The deal also includes $5 million in operational costs. The offer comes after Toronto sent a letter to Ottawa on Nov. 8 signed by Mayor Olivia Chow and city councillors requesting that federal armouries be opened, set up a reception centre near...

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In June of this year, the first amendments in 20 years were made to the Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA). For the first time, Canadians have a federally recognized right to a healthy environment. It is an unfortunate coincidence the government promised this months before a federal court overturned a ban on single-use plastics, including bags, straws and cutlery, just...

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The City of Toronto unveiled a new initiative titled "Our Health, Our City" to combat the harmful effects of substance use and promote mental health."Our Health, Our City is a bold plan to make our city safer and more caring by promoting better mental health and well-being for all," Mayor Olivia Chow said."Implementing this strategy will be an enormous team...

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The Humber Hawks sports teams and athletes are consistently ranked very high in their categorized standings, but the support for these teams is extremely low. From attending and reporting on a few games this season, the crowd and atmosphere were quite lacklustre. In the men's and women's back-to-back soccer games, I saw more fans for the opposing teams than for...

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The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the digital world significantly. AI is an emerging technology solving many problems and that is scary. From self-driving cars to predicting earthquakes, AI is changing the world at an astonishing speed. However, the risks associated with the AI can't be ignored. It has become difficult to examine what is real and what...

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For the first time since they were known as the Blueshirts in 1906, the Toronto Maple Leafs played their first games overseas as part of the NHL Global Series, Detroit Red Wings today and the Minnesota Wild on Saturday. This year, the Maple Leafs were invited to head out to Stockholm to participate in two games that count in the...

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The UN wants the killing of journalists and aid workers to stop in Gaza."It is deeply disturbing that Israeli authorities have not conducted a criminal investigation,” reads an official UN OHCHR statement earlier this year, following the one-year memorial of veteran Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh, a correspondent reporter for Qatari state-owned media company Al Jazeera, was shot...

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I stopped and gave the woman interviewing me for an internship position the "side eye," and asked, "Excuse me?"I seem to have misread the posting. I was too stunned to speak."Congratulations, Mr. Lewis, you will be moving forward in the hiring process — I also want to remind you that there is no honorarium, and the contract is for three...

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COVID-19 has contributed significantly to the current overdose crisis that is still affecting Canadians. Canada's illicit drug supply is the primary source of the high rates of overdoses and fatalities, and the crisis has only gotten worse. Since the beginning of 2022, Ontario has recorded 2,501 opioid overdoses. The drug overdose epidemic has proven to be a bigger issue as...

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Calls for a ceasefire echo across the globe amid the continued bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli military. More than 25,000 tons of explosives, equivalent to two nuclear bombs, have already been dropped on what is one of the most densely populated places on earth. More than 10,000 people have been killed, including about 4,000 of them children, in Gaza...

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