- Snowstorm shutters schools, families flock to parks
- A major snowstorm forced city-wide school cancellations on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026 — the second time in under a year following a similar shutdown in Feb. 2025.
- Friday was already a professional development day, creating a four-day snow-covered long weekend for many students and families.
- Thousands headed to Toronto’s roughly 1,500 parks to build snow sculptures and sled on hills amid below-freezing temperatures.
- Weather alert upgraded as GTA gets heavy snow
- Environment Canada upgraded the snowfall alert for the Greater Toronto Area from yellow to orange just before 8 a.m. on Thursday.
- Forecast: 20–35 cm expected across Toronto and surrounding regions (Durham, Peel, southern York, Guelph, Kitchener, Niagara).
- Warnings: reduced visibility, heavy snow and local blowing snow; accumulation continued through the morning and was expected to taper late Thursday afternoon.
- Schools: closures and bus cancellations across the GTA
- Status for Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026: Toronto District School Board — CLOSED; Toronto Catholic District School Board — CLOSED; Peel DSB — CLOSED; Dufferin‑Peel Catholic — CLOSED; York DSB and York Catholic — CLOSED.
- Durham DSB and Durham Catholic — SCHOOLS OPEN but buses cancelled in zones 1–4; Halton DSB and Halton Catholic — CLOSED.
- New Canadian-made subway cars unveiled in early concept renders
- Provincial government released renders showing bright red replacement trains for Line 2 with black-and-white detailing.
- Cars to be manufactured in Thunder Bay, Ont., at Alstom’s Ontario facilities, part of a funding agreement between municipal, provincial and federal governments.
- Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said the project aims to keep skilled workers employed and strengthen domestic manufacturing capacity.
- Child-welfare workers vote on strike mandate amid burnout concerns
- CUPE Local 2316 (about 500 Toronto Children’s Aid Society staff) began voting on whether to grant a strike mandate on Thursday.
- Union cites workload and burnout; management has said the agency faces a roughly $15-million deficit and has limited room to address caseloads.
- Murder verdict: Ontario man found guilty of killing parents
- Alpha Henry was found guilty of second-degree murder for the deaths of his father, Colin Henry (68), and mother, Veronica Henry (67), and guilty of attempted murder of brother Daniel Henry.
- After a four-week trial in Nov. 2024 and a psychiatric assessment received Sept. 2025, the court found he was criminally responsible.
