Metro Morning

Tuition-free music education program at the RCM named for titan Oscar Peterson; Toronto man pays for radar imaging of Black settlers' Niagara burial ground and vows to research, restore every grave.

Ontario is 20-30,000 nurses short -- and also needs teachers: why the Province has these problems and what the parties are promising to do about it.

Hearing the doorknob being tried: what it feels like in a classroom under lockdown and how the Toronto District School Board handles lockdown incidents.

Roof gone in seconds, kegs strewn about, but baby plucked from a stroller just in time: big storm, as it happened inside Uxbridge brewery.

Buffalo Poet Laureate Jillian Hanesworth, a regular at the Jefferson Ave. Tops Friendly Market, talks about loss so deep and sudden that she can't even properly grieve it: "So many people... gone".

"Someone give me a topic!" making new songs in a hospital parking lot with Toronto artist Zenesoul; finding toys, small joys for Ukrainian children in Etobicoke storefront.

Find out why 15,000 workers in the Carpenters' union are on strike and what Toronto construction businesses are doing about it; Hospital For Sick Children confirming cases of severe hepatitis.

People who moved out of town to save on housing now caught by rising commuting costs; first big Asian mall in Toronto began in a disused roller rink in Scarborough says urban planner.

In High Park with Cherry Blossom super fan; United Church to develop Toronto church properties for affordable housing; TDSB dropping auditions for arts schools: does it do students any favours?

"When I heard the Premier say that I knew it was not realistic": childcare pledge by Ford ignored municipal realities; house construction slows on first day of trades strike.