Communities in Focus: CBC's coverage in Thorncliffe Park

CBC Toronto spent the first few months of 2024 in Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood as part of our Communities in Focus initiative.

The neighbourhood is facing big changes and challenges, but residents are rising up and finding ways to support each other.

You can find our stories from this unique neighbourhood on our television and radio programs, as well as on our website.

Though the Communities in Focus initiative for Thorncliffe Park has come to a close, the newsroom will continue to report stories from the area.

If you have tips about stories in Thorncliffe Park, please contact torontotips@cbc.ca. 

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• A bylaw meant to transform Thorncliffe Park is failing
• Toronto newcomers desperate for household items: volunteers
• Thorncliffe, Flemingdon Park rally to save health ambassadors as provincial funding dries up
• Toronto's building safety program lacks 'teeth' to punish bad landlords, Thorncliffe advocates say
• Thorncliffe Park residents are educated, but earning low incomes. Could new legislation help?
• Ontario has a vision for the future of Thorncliffe Park. Residents worry if they'll be included
• How Thorncliffe Park's community garden is teaching kids about nature while tackling food insecurity
• Hockey is wildly popular in Thorncliffe Park, but organizers struggle to find space for kids to play
• Community group questions whether Metrolinx is committed to bringing Ontario Line jobs to Thorncliffe Park
• Longtime Thorncliffe Park business owner struggling to stay in community amid Metrolinx expropriations
• New immigrants in Thorncliffe, Flemingdon Park rely on a nearby ServiceOntario. Now it's closing
• Thorncliffe residents have their say at impassioned CBC Toronto event

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CBC Toronto hosts in-person panel event in Thorncliffe Park:

CBC Toronto Communities in Focus: Thorncliffe Park

8 months ago

Duration 1:15:49

On Tuesday, April 16, CBC Toronto held "Facing the Future Together," an in-person panel event at the Thorncliffe Park Youth Hub in the East York Town Centre. The event capped off a months-long Communities In Focus reporting project by CBC Toronto in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood.

Can a Toronto rental inspection program keep tenants safe?

Will changes to Toronto’s RentSafeTO program improve conditions for tenants?

8 months ago

Duration 2:21

RentSafeTO is Toronto’s bylaw enforcement program, meant to ensure rental buildings comply with health and safety standards. RentSafeTO is in the process of introducing new measures but, as CBC’s Olivia Bowden reports, some Thorncliffe Park tenants are skeptical about whether or not those new measures will help improve poor rental conditions.

What new legislation could mean for newcomers looking for jobs in Ontario:

Could new legislation help Ontario newcomers find jobs in their fields?

10 months ago

Duration 2:49

Ontario is in the process of passing legislation to ban employers from asking for Canadian experience on job postings — a move that could make a difference in Toronto neighbourhoods like Thorncliffe Park, where many educated and highly-skilled newcomers are struggling to find work in their respective fields.

Affordability crisis hitting some communities harder than others:

'Living on a carpet': Affordability crisis hits hard for newcomers

8 months ago

Duration 2:34

The affordability crisis in Toronto is hurting some worse than others. Volunteers in East York say new immigrants in places like Thorncliffe Park are struggling to buy household items. One organization is seeing families who don't have mattresses to sleep on. Olivia Bowden has more as part of CBC's Communities in Focus initiative.

Community group advocating for Metrolinx to hire Thorncliffe residents for Ontario Line work: 

The Ontario Line is hiring. This group says Thorncliffe residents should be first in line for jobs

10 months ago

Duration 2:46

Metrolinx will be on the lookout to fulfill hundreds of jobs as they continue to work on the Ontario Line. As one of their projects includes a train maintenance and storage facility in Thorncliffe Park that has led to job loss, one community group is advocating for the transit company to prioritize hiring residents from the neighbourhood.

Listen

Here and Now Toronto7:11Haydn Watters visits Thorncliffe Park community to hear reaction of new Overlea bridge

One of the important pillars of Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood is the Overlea bridge. It connects Thorncliffe across the Don River to Flemingdon Park. The bridge is slated for a big renovation next year – and the city just released new images of what that’s slated to look like. Our reporter Haydn Watters was on the bridge yesterday talking to students who were using it.

Metro Morning7:13Why Thorncliffe Park residents are worried about being left out of neighbourhood development plans

 Aamir Sukhera is a member of I Am Thorncliffe.

Metro Morning8:50This woman inspired a movement in Thorncliffe Park by cooking hundreds of meals during Ramadan

Shakhlo Sharipova started cooking meals for vulnerable families during Ramadan. Over the years it has become an important part of Ramadan in the Thorncliffe and Flemingdon Park neighbourhoods

Metro Morning5:27How one Thorncliffe Park group is using a community garden to teach kids about the food they eat

CBC's Shyloe Fagan spoke to parents, students, and educators about Fraser Mustard Early Learning Academy’s Garden Club. 

Metro Morning7:33Three years and 10-thousand dollars later, foreign-trained doctor has given up on ever working in a hospital again

The gap between education and income frustrates newcomers who can't work in their field in Canada. This particularly affects neighbourhoods like Thorncliffe Park where many newcomers settle in the city. 

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