{"id":30599,"date":"2025-05-25T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T01:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-may-22-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T01:25:09","slug":"news-roundup-for-may-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-may-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for May 22, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">\u2018Protect Bathurst\u2019 campaign uses AI-generated videos to fight proposed bus lanes; Toronto may have to scale back on FIFA World Cup budget after provincial &#8216;clawback&#8217;, says Mayor Chow; soggy, cool conditions persist in Toronto; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/protect-bathurst-campaign-uses-ai-generated-videos-to-fight-proposed-bus-lanes\/article_e792c43f-17f7-4dec-bc49-1b7c5df37301.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Protect Bathurst\u2019 campaign uses AI-generated videos to fight proposed bus lanes<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/fifa-toronto-ontario-costs-city-council-1.7539782\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto may have to scale back on FIFA World Cup budget after provincial &#8216;clawback&#8217;: Chow<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/2025\/05\/22\/soggy-cool-conditions-persist-in-toronto\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soggy, cool conditions persist in Toronto<\/a> (CP24)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/video\/2025\/05\/21\/supporters-of-a-protest-exclusion-zone-bylaw-say-torontos-version-is-too-weak\/\" target=\"_blank\">Supporters of a protest exclusion zone bylaw say Toronto&#8217;s version is too weak<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/it-is-shameful-city-staff-slammed-for-leaving-toronto-rooming-house-tenants-in-inhuman-conditions\/article_ba112653-77c5-4c82-8e93-2ec1c7f12a45.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018It is shameful\u2019: City staff slammed for leaving Toronto rooming-house tenants in \u2018inhuman conditions\u2019<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>fbq('init', '1760257484204295');\nfbq('track', \"PageView\");<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/urbantoronto.ca\/news\/2025\/05\/news-roundup-may-22-2025.58642\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u2018Protect Bathurst\u2019 campaign uses AI-generated videos to fight proposed bus lanes; Toronto may have to scale back on FIFA &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for May 22, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-may-22-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for May 22, 2025\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-toronto","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}