Hot Box Cafe
Toronto’s fave pot-smoking hangout turns 10 with a party on May 18 featuring Juno Award-winning reggae artist Exco Levi. We’re stoked.
Public housing
The Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association kicks off a public campaign encouraging Ontarians to make affordable public housing a priority. housingopensdoors.ca
Woburn C.I.
The Scarborough high school’s robotics team takes the gold at the VEX Robotics World Championship in Anaheim, California. A big congrats.
Police priorities
Citing increased gun violence, Toronto police postpone community meetings to discuss the possible future closures of 54 and 13 Divisions.
Community newspapers
Italian-language weekly Corriere Canadese announces it’s closing shop after 58 years, a week after another community mainstay, Canadian Jewish News, said it was moving its newspaper operations online.
Toronto marathon
Eighteen-year-old runner Emma van Nostrand collapses and dies 2 kilometres from the finish line in her first marathon.
