The premier’s announcement also came with the news that famed architect Raymond Moriyama’s concrete structure will be razed to make way for “affordable and attainable” housing.
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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.
TORONTO Efforts to expand Ontario s vaccine rollout to adults of all ages in certain long-standing hot spots drew massive lineups at one pop-up clinic on Saturday as those otherwise excluded from the province s immunization drive rushed to get their shots.
Hundreds lined up for hours in Toronto s Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood, some with lawn chairs in tow, eager to get their first dose of vaccines that are still generally reserved for Ontarians of certain ages or occupations.
Ema Golich waited roughly four hours before getting her shot, but that didn t soften her anticipation for a moment she d been thinking about for months.