After many years of success, in which Ondaatje was considered one of Toronto's most aggressive and predatory businessmen, he left the business world in 1995.

Toronto's renumbering took effect 1 May 1969, accompanied by an advertising campaign under the slogan " Your number is up ".

The Beaches contains a number of historic buildings that are either designated under the Ontario Heritage Act, or listed in the City of Toronto's inventory of heritage buildings, including:

With its 1913 neo-Gothic terra cotta façade, the building is designated as a heritage property by the City of Toronto's Heritage Preservation Services under the Ontario Heritage Act and has served as a broadcast facility since 1987.

While it is a small neighbourhood it is home to several places of note such as the former Don Destructor, Toronto's only garbage incinerator, and Don Mount Court, a social housing project that is under redevelopment and will be rebuilt as part of a mixed social housing and market value community.

Canada's first book superstore, Toronto's World's Biggest Bookstore, once part of the Coles chain, was also owned by Chapters and had continued to operate under its original name.

The members met and played in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Secondary School under the name Pezz and remained underground in Toronto's indie music scene until 2001.

Toronto's St. Andrews Golf Club hosted the Open in 1936 and 1937 -– the only course to hold back-to-back Opens until the creation of Glen Abbey -– before it felt the impact of the growth of the city, and was ploughed under to allow for the creation of Highway 401.

It was one of the biggest fires in Toronto's history, as 170 firefighters were required to bring the six-alarm blaze under control.

Like with U. S. television, many stations use varied titles for their newscasts ; this is particularly true with owned-and-operated stations of Global and Citytv ( Global's stations use titles based on daypart such as News Hour for the noon and early evening newscasts and News Final for 11 p. m. newscasts, while all six Citytv-owned broadcast stations produce morning news / talk programs under the umbrella title Breakfast Television and its flagship station CITY-DT / Toronto's evening newscasts are titled CityNews ).

The 2009 shift of the station to Mainstream Top 40 resulted in the Toronto market having three contemporary hit radio stations and three adult contemporary stations under the same owner -- Astral Media ( CKFM-FM ) & Hamilton's CKLH-FM, due to Hamilton being so close to Toronto, and previously, Toronto's CJEZ-FM ( now adult hits-formatted CHBM-FM ), Rogers Radio ( CKIS-FM and CHFI-FM ), and Evanov Communications ( CIDC-FM and CKDX-FM ; both Toronto rimshots, like CKLH-FM ).

Its current logo was unveiled in 2000, when Rogers rebranded the station from CHFI FM98 and the Toronto's Perfect Music Mix slogan, to 98. 1 CHFI, moving away from soft adult contemporary to mainstream adult contemporary under the Toronto's Soft Rock slogan.

On March 20, 2008, the Toronto Blue Jays announced that Alomar would be elevated to the Level of Excellence at Toronto's Rogers Centre, joining such Blue Jay legends as George Bell, Joe Carter, Tony Fernández and Cito Gaston.

According to Walter, the " capper " was being booed on " Brantford Day " at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens in February 1975.

In October 2008, and again in 2009, YMCA of Greater Toronto in Canada was named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc. On 11 July 2010, the YMCA of the USA re-branded its name to the popular nickname, " The Y ", and revised the iconic red and black logo to create five coloured versions.

London, Ontario-based Cableshare used NAPLPS as the basis of touch-screen information kiosks for shopping malls, the flagship of which was deployed at Toronto's Eaton Centre.

Since the line was built to handle smaller vehicles, Toronto's subway trains would not be able to handle its tight curves.

What is clear is that in 1976, Andrew Alexander, then the producer of Toronto's Second City stage show, was looking to expand his company into the realm of TV production.

Skinny Puppy toured for three years in North America and Europe ; a live performance at Toronto's Concert Hall in 1987 was released on VHS in 1989 and CD in 1991 as Ain't It Dead Yet ?.

Layton was also one of the few opponents to Toronto's bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Layton was also hurt by the growing unpopularity of the provincial NDP government of Bob Rae, and by his earlier opposition to Toronto's Olympic bid.

In June 1999, as chair of Toronto's environmental task force, the Toronto Atmospheric Fund, he was instrumental in the preliminary phases of the WindShare wind power cooperative in Toronto through the Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative.

Lastman was a critic of Metropolitan Toronto's Metro Hall, attacking Metro Council's decision to locate the $ 220 million building downtown.

Later that month, SAS was also named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers, which was announced by the Toronto Star newspaper.

The fourth season of Canadian Idol featured an Unplugged night which was held at Toronto's Masonic Temple.

On December 5, 1990, McGriff was traded to the San Diego Padres with Tony Fernández in exchange for Roberto Alomar and Joe Carter – two players who would be integral in Toronto's back-to-back World Series titles in the early 1990s.

It was the University of Toronto's fourth, and final, championship.

Multi-sport star Lionel Conacher was Toronto's top player, scoring 15 of his team's points before leaving the game after the third quarter to join his hockey team for their game.

The game was held at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, and began on Saturday, December 1, 1962.

Massey was thus raised amongst Toronto's elite, which would give him a number of social and familial connections throughout his life, as occurred with his younger brother, Raymond Massey, and his children, Anna Massey and Daniel Massey.

The University of Toronto Schools was founded in 1910 as a " practice school ", also known as a laboratory school, for the University of Toronto's Faculty of Education.

FP put a strong emphasis on the Report on Business section that was launched in 1962, thereby building the paper's reputation as the voice of Toronto's business community.

It was the third MLB stadium to have a retractable roof and the first in the United States ( at the time, only Toronto's SkyDome, now Rogers Centre and Montreal's Olympic Stadium had them ; others are now at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Miller Park in Milwaukee, Safeco Field in Seattle and Marlins Park in Miami ).

Toronto's William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute was named after him.

* " The Rebel Mayor ", a Twitter account which posted satirical comments on various candidates in Toronto's 2010 mayoral election, was written in the persona and voice of Mackenzie.

In October 2008, the York Regional Municipality was named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc.

She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009.

In 2007, Toronto's Fucked Up appeared on MTV Live Canada, where they were introduced as " Effed Up ".

In June 1990, the city's solicitor cleared the couple of any wrongdoing, and later that month, Layton and Chow left the co-op and bought a house in Toronto's Chinatown together with Chow's mother, a move they said had been planned for some time.

" The remarks sparked a firestorm of controversy, with much speculation that they would offend African IOC members and endanger Toronto's bid.

After she and her husband returned to Canada in the early 1990s, they moved to Toronto's exclusive Rosedale neighbourhood and became the centre of establishment society in that city.

On February 7, 2009, they played at Nathan Phillips Square as part of Toronto's WinterCity Festival.

Only three reporters were left and they produced stories for CBLT Toronto's Newscast which was broadcast at the supper hour.

Toronto's first year in the PDL was a difficult one ; they lost their opening game 3-0 to West Michigan Edge, and didn't pick up their first win until the fifth game of the season, a 2-0 defeat away at the Indiana Invaders.

In this, the band found approval with critics who appreciated their faithfulness to the music of the era: Toronto's Eye Weekly said that " unlike many of their contemporaries, they have a reverence for properly constructed songs ", and similarly, Charles Taylor, in The Boston Phoenix, remarked that " What distinguishes the album from a shopping list of mid -' 60s cool is the enormous affection de Maré and Virgo conjure up for the period they invoke.

A farewell concert was planned and on March 30, 2007, the Rheostatics played Toronto's Massey Hall, the largest venue that they had played as headliners.

Wharves existed along Toronto's waterfront in the 19th Century, but they have since been replaced by quays.

In October 2001, Big Wreck played a special show at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall accompanied by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Uzume Taiko Ensemble of drummers, with The Tragically Hip's Paul Langlois and Robby Baker and guitarist-as they shared the same manager, Bernie Breen from Bernie Breen Music Management, as well as Eric Johnson also making appearances.

Today, they and their wives and children continue to hold prominent positions in Toronto's society circles.

Saundercook's committee endorsed an aggressive recycling and green-bin plan, but also endorsed a controversial plan to ship Toronto's garbage to Adams Mine outside Kirkland Lake, Ontario, but on the condition that Toronto would not be locked into sending fixed amounts of garbage and the city could recycle as much as they wanted.

Many of Toronto's early housing developments ( particularly Regent Park ) were built to handle the influx of internal immigrants before they were eventually replaced by external immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia starting in the 1960s.

Toronto's paramedics are active participants in the community which they serve.

TCA then entered into an agreement to build a prototype system on the University of Toronto's FERUT computer, a surplus Manchester Mark 1 computer they had received in 1952 when the UK's nuclear weapons laboratories had to abandon it after budget cuts.