{"id":34923,"date":"2026-04-04T05:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-april-2-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:20:20","slug":"news-roundup-for-april-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-april-2-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for April 2, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">TTC has higher costs and fewer riders than in 2019, but winning them back won&#8217;t fix financial woes, staff warn; tourism minister backs Ontario Place plan, saying Therme went through \u2018proper checks;&#8217; new \u2018made-in-Mississauga\u2019 bylaw aims to better protect tenants from unlawful \u2018renovictions;&#8217; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/ttc-less-riders-higher-costs-pre-pandemic-9.7149119\" target=\"_blank\">TTC has higher costs and fewer riders than in 2019. Winning them back won&#8217;t fix financial woes, staff warn<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11755515\/ontario-place-stan-cho-therme-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tourism minister backs Ontario Place plan, saying Therme went through \u2018proper checks\u2019<\/a> (Global News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/local\/peel\/article\/new-made-in-mississauga-bylaw-aims-to-better-protect-tenants-from-unlawful-renovictions\/\" target=\"_blank\">New \u2018made-in-Mississauga\u2019 bylaw aims to better protect tenants from unlawful \u2018renovictions\u2019<\/a> (CTV News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/the-fixer\/commuters-had-to-do-the-zombie-pole-dance-in-front-of-union-station-for-years-the-city-just-made-it-worse\/article_1ec0b0d1-54f2-4422-bac7-f75f52c3f07c.html\" target=\"_blank\">Commuters had to do the \u2018zombie pole dance\u2019 in front of Union Station for years. The city just made it worse<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2026\/04\/01\/toronto-south-riverdale-unwin-avenue-potholes-drivers\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018This is the worst street in Toronto, hands down\u2019: Drivers sound off on roadway near waterfront<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11754016\/metrolinx-vice-presidents-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\">Number of VPs at Metrolinx grows again, some consultants come on board permanently<\/a> (Global News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2026\/04\/02\/easter-toronto-weekend-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weekend need-to-know: Celebrate Easter with the Beaches parade, Distillery egg hunt<\/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\/2026\/04\/news-roundup-april-2-2026.60710\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] TTC has higher costs and fewer riders than in 2019, but winning them back won&#8217;t fix financial woes, staff &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for April 2, 2026\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-april-2-2026\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for April 2, 2026\">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-34923","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\/34923","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=34923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}