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Harry Barberian opened his steak house on Elm Street in 1959, in a row of Victorian houses behind Yonge Street, and it has outlasted most of what grew up around it - a dark room of oil paintings and charcoal-grilled beef with one of the deepest wine cellars in Canada dug out beneath it.

Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton submit a deep convolutional network to the ImageNet challenge as team SuperVision and win by a wide margin. The result turns GPU deep learning from a niche into an industry.

The light rail line runs almost 11 kilometres from Finch West station on Line 1 at Keele Street west to Humber College Station, with 18 stops along the way. The TTC runs it day to day, with trains every six and a half minutes at rush hour.

The 400,000-square-foot replacement for the Don Mills science centre is rising on Toronto's waterfront, pairing a mainland building with an integrated pod complex and a restored Cinesphere. Ontario's auditor general costed the move at roughly $1.4 billion against $1.3 billion to keep the old building, and shovels went in the ground in May 2026.

The 9.2-kilometre westward extension of Line 5 Eglinton adds seven stations - four underground, two elevated and one in an open trench - ending at a trenched terminal at Renforth beside the eastern end of the Mississauga Transitway. Construction was estimated in 2026 at CA$3.97 billion, up from CA$2.47 billion a decade earlier.

The 7.8-kilometre extension carries Line 2 Bloor-Danforth east from Kennedy station to three new stops - Lawrence and McCowan, Scarborough Centre and a terminal at McCowan and Sheppard - replacing the Line 3 RT shut in 2023, and is projected to carry about 105,000 trips a day. Infrastructure Ontario values the stations, rail and systems contract alone at $5.7 billion.