Posted: Apr 29, 2021 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 29
Owner Iqbal Malek says his grocery store served up to 20,000 customers per week before the pandemic. The store specializes in halal products that aren't easily found elsewhere.(Paul Borkwood/CBC)
Iqbal Malek has spent more than three decades growing his halal grocery store into a mainstay in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood.
But he may have to move his business to make way for a new Metrolinx facility to service the Ontario Line, a 15-stop subway route slated to run 16 kilometres from the Ontario Science Centre to Ontario Place.
"It was very surprising and really shocking," said Malek.