🌡️ We’re back to summer weather — sunny and temperatures in the mid-20s, reaching into the high-20s with the humidex.
🏗️ The Downsview redevelopment just got even snazzier. Say hello to a new massive concert venue that can hold 50,000 people. It's set to open next June.
🌉 The whole “let’s build a tunnel under the 401” thing has Edward Keenan wondering whether Premier Doug Ford wishes he were the mayor of Toronto.
😂 Like Keenan, Matt Gurney doesn’t think this is a serious idea.
🔍 CityNews looks at how Boston’s “Big Dig” megaproject could offer lessons for Ford’s tunnel vision. The Dig cost about $8 billion for a 2.5-kilometre tunnel. Ford is musing about something orders of magnitude larger and more expensive.
🚫 No more field trips to protests while the province investigates how students ended up alongside pro-Palestinian protesters at an Indigenous rights rally.
🕵️♂️ The TDSB hopes the province can start its investigation by Dec. 1.
📣 A Toronto teachers’ union said the Ford government’s focus on the pro-Palestinian protest part is a distraction from the Indigenous rights aspect of the field trip.
🚑 Toronto is expanding the community crisis emergency response program that helps people in mental health or addiction-related emergencies.
🚴 Jamie Bradburn turns back the pedals for a historical perspective on the ever-present battle between cars and bikes in Toronto.
🏢 The oldest apartment building in the city is getting a 10-storey makeover. The tenants, however, will still be inside.
Commuter corner
No subway service from Woodbine to Kennedy from Friday at 11 p.m. to Monday at 6 a.m.
Track work means service from Victoria Park to Kennedy stations ends at 11 p.m. until Oct. 4.
Starting at 11 p.m. this week, southbound trains between Finch and Sheppard will use the northbound platform at Downsview Park and Sheppard West Station. Northbound trains will turn back towards Vaughan Metropolitan Centre from Sheppard West Station and use the northbound platform.
Events, dear boy, events
Oktoberfest starts on Friday after work and runs all day Saturday.
The Latin Parade and Fall Fiesta parade starts at Yonge and Bloor at 11 a.m. on Saturday before setting up shop in Yonge-Dundas Square for the rest of the weekend.
The largest vintage clothing sale in the country takes over the Queen Elizabeth Building this weekend.
Grammy-winning Canadian DJ Kaytranada is at Budweiser Stage on Friday.
Enjoy an open house and free concert from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at Roy Thompson Hall this Saturday starting at 10 a.m.
The AGO hosts the annual Art Bash on Thursday.
Carlton Cinema hosts the Toronto Hungarian Film Festival from Friday through Sunday.
Hit up the Hillcrest TTC complex near Bathurst and Dupont if you want to see some old-timey streetcars on Saturday. The transit yard is celebrating its 100th anniversary and opening its doors to the public.