Metro Morning

Olivia Chow will walk back into City Hall more "impatient" than her younger self -- because "times are tougher and I want to get things done... now!" -- as everyone wonders if she can.

Mixed reactions to gender-neutral washrooms at Toronto's newest elementary school lead to adjustments by TDSB; a new stage play looks in from the outside on inaccessible LGBT spaces and events.

"The cure for homelessness is very simple": Indigenous-focused shelter is the first step in a series of supports offered by innovative Toronto organization; Fort York Powwow features great music stage.

Delicious hard-to-find Middle Eastern bread is a local Oakville treat; some merchants in Little Jamaica wonder if city policies are adding to their suffering; enviro guide to the mayoral election.

"All these crimes have really defined the City... we have to pay attention": Mayoral candidate Mark Saunders says it's important to stop normalizing disorder and petty crimes to halt Toronto's decline.

"Part of my Grade 9 geography project": Toronto teen concerned with "transit death spiral" builds a TTC app that uses navigation and rewards to attract riders; Brampton mural memorializes Punjabi rapper.

Is re-naming buildings and streets a sensible corrective to historical injustices? A fascinating look at the positives and negatives from international, Toronto and Peel Region examples.

"The loss of such an important man...the Lou Reed of Canadian theatre": Daniel Brooks, Toronto theatre legend, remembered; generations of Indo-Caribbean-Canadian women celebrated in ceramic exhibition.

"Weird mistake" disrupts Toronto school swim programs and the Board says it can't be fixed; "A girl's favorite colour is... the one she laughs in": Mississauga's Poet Laureate's powerful poem to girls.

Thorncilffe Park teen explains why he is suing the TDSB after a fight in a gym left him with a broken nose and many questions about the way he was treated after the incident.