When Scarborough native Shelley-Ann Brown leapt to the second-place Olympic podium Wednesday night to deafening roars from the crowd, halfway across the country the students at her former elementary school were celebrating the silver medal as if they had won it themselves. “Just knowing that she’s in the Olympics and she came from our school, [...]
A Markham man is facing three child exploitation charges after police say they found child pornography in the man’s home. Officers from the Sex Crimes Unit executed a search warrant at a home in the Highway 7 and Leslie St. area in Markham on Wednesday where they seized the man’s computer and a quantity of [...]
Commuters should prepare for an ugly commute Friday morning as Environment Canada predicts the GTA will be coated with a thick blanket of snow. Drive cautiously, an Ontario Provincial Police spokesperson warns. Environment Canada underscores the warning. “It’s not just snow. It’s blowing snow and strong winds,” said Geoff Coulson, Environment Canada meteorologist. The strong [...]
Parents’ concerns about split grades are “one of the most challenging consequences” of the class cap in Ontario’s primary classrooms, says a new report. Even though school boards were able to achieve the province’s mandate of 20 students per class from junior kindergarten to Grade 3 in 90 per cent of classes in just a [...]
Mixed-income buildings interspersed with shops and community centres, new bridges over the Allen Expressway and three times as many residents — that’s the ambitious plan Toronto Escort Agency Community Housing outlined Thursday for the worn-out housing project Lawrence Heights. “We’re going to level these 110 acres of land and replace it with a brand new [...]