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Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 day ago

Ford says province will take over Billy Bishop airport | CBC News

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced the province will take control of Billy Bishop airport from Toronto, planning to bring jets and extend the runway as an economic development initiative.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
4 months ago

Toronto's waterfront music venue renamed RBC Amphitheatre, will close in 2027 for renos | CBC News

Ontario Place amphitheatre renamed RBC Amphitheatre, will expand lawn seating by 2,000, add winter enclosures, and reopen in phased 2029–2030 timeline.
fromFast Company
4 months ago

In Toronto, a polluted industrial wasteland is now a beautiful park

"It's incredibly transformed," says Emily Mueller De Celis, a landscape architect at the firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, which won a competition to "renaturalize" the area in 2007. "Rather than walking around in and amongst oil refineries and other industry, now you are immersed in nature, walking along the banks of a river with spectacular views back to the city."
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Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

Viable ancient organisms and seeds preserved in century-old waterfront soils reveal pre-urban wetland biodiversity and inform large-scale river and habitat restoration.
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