We don’t want to criticise our public officials. Still, the convoluted decisions the Board is making to replace a single school trustee with a province-appointed supervisor (ostensibly for better financial accountability) and then establish a special office at schools to address parents’ concerns seem far from fiscally sound. Our r...
Healthcare is a vital component of societal stability. It influences our quality of life, economic productivity, and life expectancy. This understanding is a hallmark of some of the most successful healthcare systems worldwide. These top systems strike a balance between accessibility, affordability, and excellence through various models, inclu...
Food insecurity in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) has reached alarming levels, with over 4.1 million visits to food banks reported from March 2024 to April 2025. This underscores a systemic crisis affecting more than one in ten residents. To better understand this crisis, GTA Muslims Today contacted a senior officer at Mississauga ...
What a difference two weeks can make in Canadian politics! For our regular readers of the GTA Muslims Today Newsletter, our report from October 27 celebrated the fact that two politicians on opposite sides of the political spectrum—Premier Ford and Mayor Chow—had taken a similar empathetic approach to the issue of renters’ rights in Toro...
News from earlier this week: “Toronto to Provide 1,200 New Shelters for the Homeless.” This total includes 370 permanent supportive and subsidised housing units, 244 warm centre spaces that will open when temperatures drop to -5°C or colder during winter weather warnings, nearly 490 new shelter spaces, and 175 surge capacity spaces...
Public Health Ontario (PHO) is alerting all Ontarians and Canadians that the forthcoming flu season could be more severe than expected due to increased resistance to vaccines and medications. This situation may stem from a new flu strain that Canadians have not encountered before. To support this warning, PHO has noted a sudden 1.8% increase i...
On Sunday, November 9, 2025, a significant early-season snowfall of 9.8 cm (recorded at Pearson International Airport) blanketed the Greater Toronto Area, which environmentalists described as “significant and rare.” The previous record for this date was just 1.5 cm in 1971. This heavy snowfall resulted from a low-pressure system af...
*An excerpt from Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) last sermon. When we hear the term ‘Intimate Partner Violence‘ (IPV), our minds might immediately turn to violence against women. This assumption is essentially correct, as historically and traditionally, women have been disproportionately affected by IPV, making up nearly 80% of vic...
This time, it’s not just one, but two unionised public agencies—the Toronto Community Housing (TCHC) and the Toronto Seniors Housing (TSHC)—that are making their displeasure known in no uncertain terms. According to union records, TCHC serves one in 50 Torontonians, managing over 58,000 units in 2,100 buildings and nearly 105,000 tenants...
The truth is: Toronto ranks 17th (out of 400 cities) on the list, which is two places lower than last year. With this sobering thought in mind, let’s take a look at the rest of the rankings. The list is topped by London, UK, which has held the 1st place position for 11 consecutive years, despite its much-maligned Muslim mayor, […]...
