This series delves into Ontario’s accessibility goals and the quality of life for the millions of people living with a disability. Learn where Ontarians started, how far we’ve come and what’s still left to be done to improve the lives of a skyrocketing demographic.
In celebration of Earth Day, meet environmental champions, organizations and businesses that are innovative and leading the charge. Through a variety of articles and images, Down to Earth aims to educate, influence and raise awareness. Expert voices offer solutions, personal profiles inspire…
The working world is changing more quickly today than it has in a century. Where will the jobs be in the future? What jobs will they be? How will we prepare for them, commute to them, retire from them? Experts from the working world, the business world and government ponder help us get a cle…
In our series Behind The Crimes: Solved and Unsolved Cases in Ontario, we revisit crimes that dominated headlines in our communities.
We stand in solidarity with the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities in Waterloo Region and öÏÓãÊÓƵapp. This month we're joining you in celebrating Pride month.
Articles about the history of Indigenous Peoples on Turtle Island, from before contact with European explorers and settlers, through to present day.
Everything you need to know to get your children ready to go back to school.
Festival days, patio nights, trails, beaches, theatre and music. Ontario has a lot to offer for its comeback summer.
Truth through storytelling. A source for Indigenous news, profiles and community coverage that uplifts and informs.
Canada’s leading thinkers and local residents reflect on how COVID-19 has changed our community, Canada and the world, and forever altered the future.
Metroland communities will tackle the issue of local business ownership and its value to building community through a 5-day series in March 2021.
What is a hate crime and how many happen in my community? Statistics fall well short of telling the whole story of hate crimes in our community. We speak to victims of hate crimes and explain why few hate crimes are ever treated as such by police and courts system.
We explore the challenge for governments to regulate tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google.
This is a Torstar Communities-wide series on drugs, guns and human trafficking happening along the major highways that run through our communities. We are investigating these crimes and their patterns but most importantly, we are looking at ways to solve the problems. Part 1 of the series, t…
Love fresh Ontario produce? Or did you grow way more than your family can eat in your backyard garden? Here are some ideas on ways to preserve that produce for year-round access, from canning to pickling to fermenting.
From vegetable gardening to making your own face mask we have lots resources to help you get through the COVID-19 crisis.
Eleven Local Journalism Initiative journalists have joined Torstar Community Brands in recent weeks to fill gaps in coverage in our communities. Funded by the federal government, the Local Journalism Initiative (LJI) supports the creation of original civic journalism that covers the diverse …
How do you tell if you’ve got the common cold, or something more serious? And what do you do if you suspect you might have COVID-19? Here is a list of resources and articles to help you through the coronavirus crisis.
More than 120 journalists. Hundreds of interviews. Thousands of documents. Tens of thousands of pieces of data. One conclusion: Canada has an insidious problem with lead in drinking water. A groundbreaking national investigation involving 10 media organizations and nine universities exposes …
The provincial government is repealing the Toxics Reduction Act, killing a voluntary reduction program that empowered you to see what toxins are used in the industrial facilities in your neighbourhood — and what they planned to do to reduce them. A Torstar Community Brands web-exclusive mult…
The Ford government announced January 15, 2019 it will be implementing a review of Ontario’s eight regional municipalities and Simcoe County to determine whether the municipal governments in these areas are efficient and accountable to their residents and businesses.
