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From Toronto Sun – Toronto & GTA
People fearful of coyotes snatching dogs and cats must learn to live with the wild animals and take precautions, says Toronto Councillor Doug Holyday. In the wake of increasing concern, Holyday said Sunday he will recommend city parks officials look at preparing tips about living with coyotes in their neighbourhoods.
“If we want natural areas in the city, it’s going to attract wildlife,” he said.
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From Toronto Star – Toronto & GTA
The owners of an exotic fish store say a vandal with knowledge of how fish tanks operate killed hundreds of fish and expensive coral in their store Wednesday afternoon.
Adam Ghavari, co-owner of Indoor Jungle at 1285 Kennedy Rd., believes someone poured either chlorine or bleach into a central system that connects a wall of fish tanks, killing 700 fish and 200 pieces of coral.
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From Toronto Star – Toronto & GTA
Toronto’s once-sleepy island airport is going to get a lot busier.
More passengers, more flights and more destinations are planned for Porter Airlines, which unveiled the first phase of its new $50 million terminal Monday, marking the latest step in the burgeoning company’s ongoing expansion.
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A 17-year-old Siberian tiger is the latest animal to die at the Toronto Zoo.
Tonghua died Sunday around 8:30 p.m. as he was coming out of sedation. Zoo veterinarians had tranquilized the 400-pound cat to run a battery of tests after he began “acting a bit strange,” staggering and refusing food on the weekend.
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From Toronto Sun – Toronto & GTA
Fellow TTC commissioners are lining up to back chairman Adam Giambrone.
Councillor Sandra Bussin said she doesn’t see the connection between the personal trials of Giambrone and his day job as head of the TTC.
“He stepped down from the mayoralty (race), it doesn’t mean he has to step down from chair of the TTC, or step down as a councillor,” she said Thursday. “I think it’s far too punitive and I’m very disappointed in the constant calls for somebody to be stripped of all of his roles for the city.”
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From Toronto Star – Toronto & GTA
Embattled councillor Adam Giambrone is quitting the race for Toronto’s mayor.
At a news conference Wednesday, he read a one-minute statement that apologized to his fellow councillors, to the young people of the city and in particular to his live-in girlfriend Sarah McQuarrie.
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From Toronto Star – Toronto & GTA
Mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone admitted Monday night he had “an inappropriate relationship with a young woman.”
Calling it “a serious lapse in judgment,” the Toronto city councillor offered his “deepest apology to my partner, Sarah, my family and friends for the pain and embarrassment my indiscretion will cause them.”
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Mildred’s Temple Kitchen on Hanna Avenue in Toronto might be a popular spot this Valentine’s Day weekend.
The popular restaurant is inviting customers to have sex in its bathrooms.
The Valentine’s weekend promotion takes uncomfortable but electrifying sex from the close confines of an airplane and transfers it to the unisex stalls.
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The girl, 10, was assaulted sexually by a sleep technician at a sleep clinic in Toronto. Detective Constable Phil Campbell of the Toronto Police said that the name of the clinic can not be released due to privacy laws. The clinic is as far as he knows open to the public and not limited to children.
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A 35-year-old man is clinging to life in hospital after being struck by a streetcar in Toronto overnight.
Police say the man was talking on a cellphone when he walked in front of the oncoming streetcar in the Queen St. and Broadview Avenue area around 12:45 a.m. this morning.
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Premier Dalton McGuinty is set to unveil his new cabinet on Monday.
Queen’s Park has looked a little bit different lately, as George Smitherman and Jim Watson have both resigned.
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For Joe Pantalone, it’s mayor or nothing when it comes to politics. The former Deputy Mayor of Toronto officially threw his hat into the ring to become the new mayor of Toronto on Wednesday.
Pantalone signed his papers and payed the fee at 11am. He joins Rocco Rossi, Georgio Mammoliti, and George Smitherman among serious hopefuls.
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Toronto’s Yorkville and Annex neighbourhoods are in the dark Sunday evening after a burst watermain took down the electrical grid that powers some of the downtown’s priciest businesses and residences.
At approximately 11:30 a.m., Toronto Hydro lost power to the central section of the city, with word of a broken waterline in the area of Yonge Street and Davenport Road, said Denise Attallah, media spokesperson for Toronto Hydro.
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Housing activist Cathy Crowe has been named the New Democrat candidate to run in the Toronto Centre provincial byelection on Feb. 4.
Former deputy premier George Smitherman, a Liberal, held the riding for the past decade until he stepped down to take a run at the mayor’s chair in Toronto.
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From Toronto Star – Toronto & GTA
Former deputy premier George Smitherman has made it official — he wants to be mayor of Toronto.
Smitherman filed nomination papers this morning to put his name on the Oct. 25 ballot, joining other declared candidates including Liberal strategist Rocco Rossi and Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti.