{"id":30960,"date":"2025-06-18T07:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-june-18-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T07:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:14:18","slug":"news-roundup-for-june-18-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-june-18-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for June 18, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">\u00a0St. Michael\u2019s Hospital opens new Indigenous health centre, receives $11 million donation; TTC has taken control of Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Metrolinx CEO says; middle-income households making up to $125K annually getting squeezed out of the GTHA, according to report; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/st-michaels-hospital-opens-new-indigenous-health-centre-receives-11-million-donation\/article_cc2228ce-011e-4536-992c-8603c059db06.html\" target=\"_blank\">St. Michael\u2019s Hospital opens new Indigenous health centre, receives $11 million donation<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/ford-chow-news-conference-toronto-tuesday-1.7563072\" target=\"_blank\">TTC has taken control of Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Metrolinx CEO says<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/invisible-poor-middle-income-households-making-up-to-125k-annually-getting-squeezed-out-of-the-gtha-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Invisible poor\u2019: Middle-income households making up to $125K annually getting squeezed out of the GTHA: report<\/a> (CTV News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/2025\/06\/17\/what-effect-will-wildfire-smoke-have-on-toronto-residents-this-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wildfire smoke could create health risks for Toronto residents this summer. Here is why doctors say you should be careful<\/a> (CP24)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/06\/18\/eglinton-crosstown-lrt-toronto-transit-big-story-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">Light at the end of the tunnel for one of Canada\u2019s most expensive transit projects<\/a> (CityNews)<\/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\/06\/news-roundup-june-18-2025.58820\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u00a0St. Michael\u2019s Hospital opens new Indigenous health centre, receives $11 million donation; TTC has taken control of Eglinton Crosstown &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for June 18, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-june-18-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for June 18, 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-30960","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\/30960","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=30960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}