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Illustration by Marley Allen-Ash / The Local
Winter 2025
Winter 2025

The Immigration Issue

The last year has seen sharp changes in attitudes and policies around Canadian immigration. Nowhere are those changes felt more than in Toronto. In this issue, we dig into the complicated, sometimes contradictory, ways newcomers change life in Toronto, and how this city affects them in turn.

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Editor's Letter by Nicholas Hune-Brown

What do Changes to Immigration Mean In a City of Immigrants?

The last year has seen sharp changes in attitudes and policies around immigration across Canada. Nowhere are those changes felt more than in Toronto.

Photo by Christopher Katsarov Luna / The Local
Fall 2024
Fall 2024

Divided City

In Toronto, neighbourhoods separated by just a few TTC stops can be worlds apart in terms of how residents experience life, and death. Our five-year-anniversary issue is an unprecedented deep-dive into this city’s disparities—on everything from health and housing to who makes 3-1-1 complaints.

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Analysis by Tai Huynh

Life Expectancy Varies by Almost 12 Years Across Toronto Neighbourhoods

A joint project by The Local and St. Michael’s Hospital, the first-ever neighbourhood-level analysis of life expectancy in Toronto, reveals stark disparities across the city.

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Feature by Nicholas Hune-Brown

Moss Park’s Lost Years

Grief, and hope, in the downtown eastside neighbourhood with the lowest life-expectancy in the city.

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Feature by Rebecca Gao with photos by Christopher Katsarov Luna

Why a Two-Kilometre Strip of Yonge Street Has the Highest Life Expectancy in Toronto

This North York neighbourhood has plenty of public amenities and walkable streets. But the secret to residents’ good health may have a less expected explanation: immigration.

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