{"id":33752,"date":"2025-12-27T00:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-december-22-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:59:12","slug":"news-roundup-for-december-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-december-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for December 22, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Local hotel saves Christmas for displaced Thorncliffe Park residents; a look at how Torontonians could soon ride self-driving taxis; Toronto transit now operating on a holiday schedule; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/12\/21\/local-hotel-saves-christmas-displaced-thorncliffe-park-residents\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Living day by day\u2019: Local hotel saves Christmas for displaced Thorncliffe Park residents<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/waymo-self-driving-taxis-toronto-9.7023379\" target=\"_blank\">Could Torontonians soon ride self-driving taxis? That\u2019s Waymo\u2019s plan<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/video\/2025\/12\/22\/toronto-transit-now-operating-on-a-holiday-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto transit now operating on a holiday schedule<\/a> (CTV News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/video\/9.7023608\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto event venues speak out following confusion over city&#8217;s new entertainment licence<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/personal-finance\/article-fifa-ticket-prices-airfare-hotel-costs-skyrocketed\/\" target=\"_blank\">High FIFA ticket prices are just the start \u2013 airfare, hotel costs have also skyrocketed<\/a> (The Globe and Mail)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/tiny-tiny-homes-new-microshelters-leslieville-9.7014624\" target=\"_blank\">Man behind Toronto tiny homes sets up new models in private backyard<\/a> (CBC)<\/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\/12\/news-roundup-december-22-2025.60093\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Local hotel saves Christmas for displaced Thorncliffe Park residents; a look at how Torontonians could soon ride self-driving taxis; &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for December 22, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-december-22-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for December 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-33752","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\/33752","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=33752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}