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Mahdis Habibinia

Reporter · CA

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Mahdis Habibinia

    Brad Bradford is promising to cut Toronto water bills. Opponents call it a risky move (opens the original)

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    Mayoral candidate Brad Bradford says he wants to change the city’s water department into an incorporated public utility — like Toronto Hydro — with the aim of cutting water bills. At a press conference in Scarborough on Monday, Bradford said the savings would come from money residents have been paying into the city’s accounts to fund capital infrastructure projects like flood protection. He proposed, instead, that the city would take on debt to fund those projects — a move his election riv

  2. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Mahdis Habibinia

    Maple the baby pygmy hippo loves belly rubs and sleeping. Why she’s a ‘massive victory’ for the Toronto Zoo (opens the original)

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    Grant Furniss has worked with zoos for more than three decades, but he said he’s never used the word “cute” to describe anything. That is, until Canada’s only baby pygmy hippo — an endangered species — was born at the Toronto Zoo. Starting Tuesday, the public can visit Maple, now six weeks old, in the African Rainforest Pavilion. (Visitation hours will be subject to her needs as well as bonding time with her mom.) “She’s 90 per cent sassiness and 10 per cent hippo at this stage,” said Furni

  3. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Mahdis Habibinia, Omar Mosleh

    Mayors want Doug Ford’s government to consider involuntary addiction treatment. Why the controversial option may be ‘having a moment’ (opens the original)

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    OTTAWA—The mayors of some of Ontario’s largest cities are pleading with the province to explore options for involuntary addiction treatment as a tool to fight the current homelessness and drug crisis. “We need to not be afraid of having the difficult conversations,” said Burlington Mayor Marianne Meed Ward, also chair of the Ontario’s Big City Mayors caucus, which represents 29 of the province’s largest municipalities. “We are ready to have a conversation without prescribing what the outco

  4. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Mahdis Habibinia, Mark Colley

    How Doug Ford’s vision of jets for Billy Bishop airport briefly soared — then came crashing down (opens the original)

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    Melinda Montgomery arrived with her chocolate Labrador, Otis. Baye Hunter paddled her kayak over from her home on the Island. Sequoia Erickson, a waterfront resident who has been stilt walking for 20 years, arrived on four-foot-tall stilts. And Norm Di Pasquale, the program manager of NoJetsTO, was all smiles Sunday, as opponents of the expansion of Billy Bishop airport marked a weekend of victory. Four months ago, this celebration — a marching band, a flotilla in the harbour, signs emblazon

  5. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Mahdis Habibinia

    Why ‘an invisible danger’ from a Billy Bishop airport expansion has this family ready to move from their Toronto waterfront home (opens the original)

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    How Billy Bishop expansion plans could change this Toronto neighbourhood Some residents of the Bathurst Quay neighbourhood in Toronto are very concerned about Premiere Doug Ford's plans to expand Billy Bishop airport and allow the introduction of commercial jet planes. This area of the city would be the most affected by the airport expansion. Toby Heaps and his wife, Sarah, say they are ready to pack their three kids and two dogs to move away from Toronto’s waterfront if jets start flying in a

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