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Get to know Toronto beyond the headlines. From City Hall showdowns to housing market woes, TTC growing pains to why so many bathrooms are in basements, we sort through the news, the noise and the stories driving Toronto and the GTA. Brought to you by CBC’s Metro Morning .
CBC hosts This is Toronto, a news show with 209 episodes published.
The provincial government has put out a document to "attract data centre investment," as cities across the GTA consider how to deal with them. Hamilton councillor Nrinder Nann and Ontario Economic Development minister Vi
Construction of the Lower Don Trail was only supposed to take a year. It ended up taking more than three years and it's still not finished. Reporter Haydn Watters explores why it takes Toronto so long to build infrastruc
Street Festivals are synonymous with summer in Toronto, but this year overcrowding has become a top concern for festival organizers.
You see them in bike lanes, on roads, on sidewalks. E-bikes are everywhere... and increasingly, they're causing fires. Toronto's Fire Chief explains why.
Since the federal government pulled its support for the island airport expansion, several Progressive Conservative MPPs have come out against the Alto high speed rail project. Three strategists unpack the politics behind
If you live in a condo and have a storage locker, what would you do if you got a letter saying you need to clear everything out? Reporter Haydn Watters delves into why Toronto Fire is telling that to some buildings.
Things may feel a certain way, but according to Statistics Canada, crime in Toronto and around the province is going down. Criminologist Scot Wortley explains why.
Toronto was the fastest growing city in Canada and the U.S. in 2024. In 2025, we placed 412th. Researchers lay much of the blame on people leaving the city for other parts of Canada.
Toronto mayoral candidates Brad Bradford and Olivia Chow have taken very different approaches responding to the deadly shooting at Salsa on St. Clair. City Hall analyst Matt Elliott explains how its playing into this fal
Toronto paramedics have gotten a spike in calls for opioid overdoses. We'll hear from a Toronto street nurse and an ER doctor dealing with these calls, who blame Doug Ford's closure of supervised consumption sites.
How does a community come together, after a usually joyous event was shaken by gun violence? In this episode we hear from people who were at Salsa on St. Clair when gunshots broke out, and try to understand what the shoo
Three political strategists weigh in on the latest polling numbers indicating the gap between Toronto mayoral candidates Brad Bradford and Olivia Chow may be closing.
The TDSB is shutting the beloved Island Natural Science School as part of its sweeping cuts. Since opening in 1960, it hosted tens of thousands of elementary students on overnight nature trips. Reporter Haydn Watters exp
With the sixth and final FIFA World Cup game hosted in Toronto now behind us, many are starting to reflect on the impact and legacy of the tournament. We hear from a former mayor and an urban planer who studies the impac
Toronto has lost so many vital music and party venues, sucking much of the fun out of the city. How does a city of "no-fun" bounce back?
Originally budgeted at $150,000, cost have ballooned for a pilot to pedestrianize part of Church Street this summer. What do those costs reveal about the challenges of changing the city's streetscape in the 21st century?
Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservative government have taken a hit in the polls. But with an election still years away, is this a temporary dip, or a sign of thing to come?
There's been a number of cases lately of youth being linked to shootings and other violent crimes, some as young as 12 or 13. But while teens recruited into gangs may be the perpetrators, do we need to re-think how we ap
Last year, the City of Toronto spent nearly $11 million on match tickets. It's now trying to resell them for profit -- a move the City calls "revenue generation," but others have criticized as scalping.
Hundreds of people protested a proposal to bring an AI data centre into a Hamilton neighbourhood. With many more proposals across the GTA, what does it actually mean when a data centre comes to town?
Matt Elliott
Founder & CEO of Blue Lake Ideas · Bank of Ireland
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Danielle Martin
Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine · The Smart Business Consultant
1 appearance on this show
Olivia Chow
Mayor of Toronto · City of Toronto
1 appearance on this show
Nrinder Nann
Hamilton
1 appearance on this show
Vic Fedeli
Ontario government
1 appearance on this show
Doly Begum
Scarborough Southwest
1 appearance on this show
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