🌡️ We’re back to summer weather with highs of 26 and some cloud cover.
🌳 The Allan Gardens encampment was demolished over the weekend. Nine of the 11 people who lived in the park were put in shelters. Tents won’t be allowed back.
🏊 If you’ve ever tried to register for swimming lessons or other city-run rec programs, you’ll like this. The city’s much-maligned website is finally getting a revamp. Parents of young kids will surely rejoice.
💧 Toronto’s water meters are breaking way ahead of schedule. Fixing them will cost a few million. It’s also causing some customers to get outsized bills.
🎤 We’re less than a month from Taylor Swift touching down in Toronto. During her six-night run, various types of work — like construction or filming — won’t be allowed near the Rogers Centre.
🚨 Two people — a 20-year-old and a 17-year-old — were charged with shooting a Jewish girls school on Yom Kippur, the second time the building had been targeted in a year.
🏥 University Health Network — which includes Toronto Western, Toronto General, the Toronto Rehab Institute and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre — reinstated its mask mandate ahead of flu and RSV season.
🏃♂️ Some 30,000 runners and 100,000 cheering fans took to the streets of downtown Toronto for the Waterfront Marathon on Sunday. Justin Kent and Natasha Wodak were the fastest Canadians.
🏢 Toronto's new condo sales hit a 30-year low after just 567 pre-construction units were sold in the third quarter. That’s bad news for housing start numbers.
💻 Kids who get free Chromebooks through the TDSB will have to pay for repairs.
🏓 Pickleball isn’t just a low-impact sport that helps get the elderly more active. It’s a great way to keep people together, according to three Toronto families.
🎶 High Park played host to a memorial for One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died in Argentina last week.
Commuter corner
Today through Friday, subway service between Victoria Park and Kennedy will end at 11 p.m. Replacement buses will run instead.
Today through Friday, shuttle buses will replace the 509 Harbourfront streetcar from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m.
Today through Thursday, the 501 Queen streetcar will divert along King between Shaw and Roncesvalles from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m.
Events, dear boy, events
Maggie Rogers is at Coca-Cola Coliseum on Oct. 22.
Clairo is at Massey Hall from Oct. 23 to 25.
On Oct. 22, the folks at the Royal Ontario Museum want to take you on a tour of Toronto’s architectural marvels, which includes a Presbyterian church that turned into a mosque and a synagogue that became a Greek Orthodox church.
Ambassador Pizza Co. is hosting a Super Smash Bros tournament on Oct. 24.
Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach, also known for his cameos on Trailer Park Boys, is at the Phoenix Theatre on Oct. 24.
The Better Living Centre hosts the Ski and Snowboard Show from Oct. 25 to 27.
Celebrate Diwali with the festival of lights at Nathan Phillips Square on Oct. 26 and 27.
