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"I'm so sad, I'm so angry,"

Police are looking for an inmate who escaped from a Toronto jail by allegedly impersonating another inmate who was to be released. Steven Alexander Guzman Marroquin, 32, of Toronto, allegedly escaped from the Toronto South Detention Centre in the area of Horner and Kipling Avenues on Monday just before noon, police said in a news release Tuesday. According to police, Marroquin impersonated another inmate who was due to be released from custody.

Almost all 3,600 listed heritage properties in Toronto including several national historic sites, and the Gibraltar Point lighthouse are about to lose their protection against demolition and redevelopment, because of a section in the province's More Homes Built Faster Act, heritage experts say. The act, passed in 2022 to ease the housing crunch, gives municipalities until Jan. 1, 2027 to upgrade all properties on their heritage lists to full heritage designation, which protects the structures against arbitrary demolition.

The winter is tough, the weather goes up and it goes down and the temperature fluctuates and it causes havoc in the roads, Chow said at a news conference.

A mother has been charged after a baby was allegedly abandoned at a Toronto church last month. Police say officers were called to the Yonge Street and Broadway Avenue area around 10:40 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 21. A person who answered the phone at St. Monica's Catholic Church said the baby was found there but referred further questions to police.

The City of Toronto has been put under a snow squall watch by Environment Canada for Tuesday evening, while other areas of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) continue to battle winter weather. The squalls are not expected to bring significant snowfall to the city, but visibility may be heavily reduced at times by bursts of heavy or blowing snow, according to an alert issued by Environment Canada late Tuesday afternoon.

Toronto is under a special weather alert for significant snow on Boxing Day, Environment Canada said Thursday.

Starting in the early 1990s, Sonny Flanagan began opening up Christmas tree lots in Toronto, and soon after, he earmarked a portion of every sale to Out of the Cold, a charity that helps feed and shelter the homeless during the winter months. Daughter Bobbi Johnston-Flanagan, who along with sister Corey now operates part of the tree business, told CBC Toronto this week that helping those who are less fortunate has always been part of the Flanagan family tradition.

The victim was brought to the hospital in life-threatening condition and his condition is still serious but is no longer life-threatening, according to Insp. Jonathan Rose. The preliminary information we have is that this was a targeted event, Rose told reporters at a news conference later Monday morning. Rose said there is no threat to public safety at this time. However, Rose said he understands locals will be concerned about the violence.

A man in his 30s has been taken to hospital in life-threatening condition after being injured at a Toronto construction site Thursday, said first responders. Officers responded around 10:10 a.m. to calls of an injured construction worker near Eglinton Avenue W. and Jane Street, said Toronto police in a post on social media. The man was taken to hospital via emergency run by paramedics, police said.

Gehry created a building that has moments where it is "quite conservative and elegant" but also moments where it is "quite flamboyant and over the top," he said. "Frank Gehry, while he's recognized as being an architect, really thought like an artist. He always looked at possibilities, always pushed the limits of materiality," Jost said. Gehry was a lot of fun, a "really great guy," and he "always approached every project as if it was his first project."

Toronto could see more than 20 kilometres of new bike lanes installed in a proposal that manages to get around the provincial government's attempts to clamp down on them. Car lanes won't need to be sacrificed if the bikeways are approved. Instead, city staff propose to narrow them down. Mayor Olivia Chow said the plan is not a loophole for provincial legislation at an unrelated news conference earlier this week. It's just a better design, she said.

City spokesperson Russell Baker confirmed the contractor was doing a dry run ahead of the winter season at the time of the incident. The behaviour displayed is completely unacceptable and falls short of the standards we expect from contractors operating on behalf of the City of Toronto. This conduct does not reflect the City's values and expectations, Baker said in an emailed statement.

M olly Dunn had always wanted to join a book club. Until last winter, the twenty-five-year-old had been too busy or distracted to find the right one. The opportunity to start one struck when she began a new job as a sales associate at BMV, a Toronto bookstore. With her manager's permission, she set a date for the inaugural meeting and posted an announcement to the store's Instagram page. The question was: Would anyone come?

Toronto police are investigating vandalism at a north end synagogue in what its rabbi says is the 10th such incident over the past year and a half. Police say officers responded to reports of smashed windows at the Kehillat Shaarei Torah temple on Bayview Avenue early this morning. Officers arrived to find four of the synagogue's windows smashed. Police describe the suspect as being in their late teens to early 20s with a thin build, short dark hair and wearing dark clothing.