[ad_1] Toronto police are seeking the public’s help after a group of men brutally attacked a 27-year-old man after they were kicked out of a downtown pub last month. Two groups of men were removed from the bar, near Madison Ave. and Bloor St. W., at 2:15 a.m. on Sept. 23 following an altercation over […]

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Sidewalk Labs launches research grants to study human behaviour

Posted on September 30th, 2018 by Best Brothers Group

[ad_1] How can behaviour-based incentives encourage people to use green bins and recycle more? Sidewalk Labs, the firm behind the proposed “city of the future” on Toronto’s eastern waterfront, wants to know. In mid-September, 10 grants of between $10,000 and $15,000 each were awarded to research teams at several universities in Toronto and the surrounding […]

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Expand after-school spaces for youth to stem violence, Toronto councillor urges

Posted on September 28th, 2018 by Best Brothers Group

[ad_1] The city can fill in the gaps in the availability of after-school youth spaces in neighbourhoods from Etobicoke to Scarborough — putting almost every Toronto youth within two kilometres of such a safe environment — at a cost of $3.1 million, a new proposal from a city councillor shows. The pitch, developed as one […]

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Toronto police brass insist guns and gangs unit is a ‘priority’

Posted on September 28th, 2018 by Best Brothers Group

[ad_1] After a morning of uncertainties about staffing levels of the Toronto police gun and gang unit, Mayor John Tory and police brass surfaced after lunch Friday to assure a city that has seen a rise in gun violence that there will be no reductions. Following media reports of realignment and reductions — and a […]

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[ad_1] Two Toronto transgender high school students have filed separate human rights claims against the province because they say the new interim sexual education curriculum discriminates against all LGBT students in Ontario. Ryan and Noah, both 15, whose last names were not provided to CBC Toronto to protect their privacy, want the 2015 health and physical […]

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[ad_1] Toronto police have released a photo of a man wanted in their investigation of the sexual assault of an unconscious woman near a Scarborough subway station. Police say it happened at about 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 1 outside Kennedy Station. The victim, a 40-year-old woman, was unconscious lying on the ground when a man […]

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[ad_1] For most people, hailing a cab is no big deal, but Diane Bergeron has a guide dog and she says that makes all the difference. After a hotel doorman hailed a taxi for Bergeron, she said the driver refused to allow her guide dog Lucy on board. “He just said, ‘No I’m not taking […]

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