Ontario has seen another jump in COVID-19 — including more than 400 cases in Toronto — a day after Premier Doug Ford said new computer modelling will show numbers trending “downwards.”
The province reported 934 new infections Thursday, up 100 from the previous day and marking the fourth-highest daily tally on record while five more deaths from the virus in nursing homes brought the total number of resident fatalities to 2,001.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Thursday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
On a recent evening, TTC bus route 6 was detoured around the intersection of Bay and Richmond St. W. for a reason that wouldn’t have raised an eyebrow in pre-COVID times: to accommodate a film shoot.
With winter on the horizon and more Canadians contemplating a potentially long season of pandemic isolation, a Toronto company is purchasing one of the world’s most iconic toys, which some say meets one of our core human needs — to make “order out of chaos.”
Toronto rents may have stopped climbing in recent months, but don’t hold your breath for a sustained shift in affordability until the city’s building boom includes more purpose-built rentals, says a senior analyst with Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC).