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Beaches-East York is voting today in a federal byelection. Liberal Tanveer Shahnawaz faces NDP's Shannon Devine, Green's Bruce Livesey and Conservative Jim Syrbos. Results matter — Liberals need to win two of three ridings happening today to hold their majority.
Metrolinx is slashing weekend GO trains on Barrie and Stouffville lines starting Saturday—some routes dropping from 15 trips a day to four. Bus replacements are live but r/toronto is not happy about the crew shortage excuse. Check your route before the weekend.
Teacher union contracts in Ontario expired and negotiations stalled—no deal in sight. Parents and students tracking what this means for the school year, since a strike could hit any day.
TTC started installing those waist-high platform barriers at TMU (Dundas Station)—full install by end of September. Reddit's already dunking on whether the gaps make them actually useful for safety.
Warden Station bus terminal closes Sept 6, 2026. The 8 and 9 will interline; the 16 and 17 are moving to Birchmount, Danforth, and Mack. Expect a three-minute walk between Bay 5 (16/17) and Bay 1 (9, 102, 902). Partial reopening early 2027, full reopening by end of 2027.
Ashkenaz Festival is running through September 6 in Kensington Market. music, food, culture — the whole thing. August 30 through early September if you haven't caught it yet.
finally some colour at Oakwood LRT station. Little Jamaica themed art went up — it's printed, not painted, but way better than the blank concrete that was there before.
someone posted from Centre Island's Sky Ride looking over the whole island with the skyline in the distance. said it felt surreal, like being somewhere far away from everything. genuinely beautiful evening vibes.
A Mississauga pesäpallo team is set to represent Canada at the Sydney World Cup. The Finnish bat sport is way less known in Canada but this crew's bringing it to the international stage.
Toronto's voting day is October 11, but early voting runs Tuesday, October 6 through Sunday, October 11 from 10am to 7pm. Need to register? You've got until Sunday, September 20 at 11:59pm to get on the voters' list and get a voter information card mailed to you.
Mystik Cafe just opened as an underground spot across from Rasta Pasta in Kensington Market with about 30-40 reptile exhibits, an in-house expert, and a cafe section. Admission's $36 for two people, free for the cafe area. Found it during Pedestrian Sundays.
AI-slop items are cropping up at St. Lawrence Market next to locally-made stuff, and market management really should have a policy to stop it. Kills the whole vibe.
Smoke stacks at the bottom of Carlaw are releasing green gas and nobody knows what it is or if it's normal. Toronto's air quality is looking sus.
Google Maps is calling Lake Ontario "Lake America" now and Toronto's not having it. People are deleting the app and switching to Organic Maps or MapQuest.
A young podcaster in Toronto is actually getting people to care about city politics. Feels like something's shifting in how local news gets shared.
Someone created a Dolly tribute on a side street near Ossington. The Parton appreciation apparently runs deep in this neighbourhood right now.
Reddit user spotted what they're calling their favourite graffiti piece in the city — pretty bold work.
Hundreds, maybe over a thousand cyclists showed up to Critical Mass on Friday night. A recent court ruling allowing Ontario to rip up Toronto's bike lanes seems to have only strengthened the movement.
Someone counted languages on a single 505 streetcar from Broadview to Lansdowne: Cantonese, Mandarin, Tamil, Urdu, Farsi, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, French, Irish, English, Toishanese. It's like birding for multilingual Torontonians.
Woodside Square mall added a full-size gorilla to its entrance. The place is already filled with dinosaurs and military equipment, plus solid stores and food. It's genuinely one of the strangest retail experiences in the city.
