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“Obviously we have a lot of work to do when you see the vaccination rate on first dose compared to the rest of the city.”
But that part of the city has not yet made the list in a campaign the city is calling the “Home Stretch”.
Mayor John Tory announced the initiative Wednesday as an effort launching 12 community clinics in 6 priority areas in the North West: Elms – Old Rexdale, Kingsview Village–The Westway, Mount Dennis, Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown, Weston, and Englemount-Lawrence.
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“This one-week, micro-targeted vaccine push will help us increase vaccine uptake in a part of the city with currently low vaccination rates,” the mayor said.
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The history of the Rexdale neighbourhood in Toronto
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Rexdale is a neighborhood located north-west of downtown Toronto. Sitting right on the edge of Etobicoke, it includes the area between Highway 427, Highway 401, Steeles Avenue and the Humber River.
Within Rexdale, you can find several smaller neighbourhoods including Humberwood, Clairville and Smithfield.
The area known as Old Rexdale refers to the smaller area west of the Humber River, east of Islington Avenue and in between Thistletown and the 401.
A group of people gathered over the Humber River in 1954. Photo by Toronto Public Library.