#torontos

Like many metropolises in Canada, it is part and parcel of city-living to brush past fellow urbanites living in makeshift campsites. Since last year, Toronto’s tent encampments increased 20 per cent with over 15,000 Torontonians living in the streets since last October. According to a 2024 Street Needs Assessment survey, Toronto had reached ‘crisis’ level homelessness.       Most of these…

Reggie Hildred-USA TODAY Sports Statistically speaking, Joey Loperfido has gotten off to slow start in his major league career. Over his first 222 plate appearances, the lefty-hitting outfielder is slashing just .229/.281/.371 with four home runs and an 86 wRC+. Those numbers are split fairly evenly between two organizations; the 25-year-old Loperfido was traded from the Houston Astros to the…

Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports The Toronto Blue Jays’ Matt Hague is earning a reputation as one of the best young hitting coaches in the game. Promoted to the big league staff this year after a pair of seasons spent working at Double-A, followed by a year in Triple-A, the 38-year-old former first baseman is one of the team’s two assistant hitting coaches. (Hunter Mense, who was featured in our…

Elderly woman killed in Toronto’s Chinatown after hit by vehicle

Article content A woman in her 70s is dead after being struck by a vehicle in Toronto’s Chinatown on Monday morning. Toronto Police say the woman was hit at the intersection of Dundas St. W. and Spadina Ave. around 11:15 a.m. Article content The driver remained on the scene. The intersection is closed while police investigate. “We’re just asking if anyone witnessed what happened in the area and…

Toronto’s Tech Industry Is Quietly Booming

“This is now a place to make a long-term bet — to build connections with the cluster of schools in the area and create a new pipeline for hiring,” said Tristan Jung, a Korean-born computer scientist who grew up in Toronto, spent six years working at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco and recently persuaded the company to build an engineering hub back home in Canada. Over the last year,…