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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 One, an 85-storey tower at Yonge and Bloor meant to be Canada's first supertall skyscraper, was placed into receivership after its financiers defaulted on more than $1.2BN in loans.

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.

Toronto's long-delayed 19km Eglinton Crosstown light rail line entered service as TTC Line 5, six years behind its original 2020 target.

An open-source orchestration layer added to NVIDIA's CUDA-Q lets researchers model error-correction codes, algorithms and qubit hardware together; Fermilab cut fault-tolerant design work from five months to three weeks with it.

Pinnacle SkyTower, a 106-storey, 352m tower on Toronto's waterfront, becomes Canada's tallest building, taking the title from One Bloor West.

NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated ROS packages add AI agent skills, agent-ready documentation and ROS 2 Lyrical support, released at ROSCon in Toronto for a community of nearly 1.3 million ROS users.

In Toronto's war on crime, the worst offenders are pursued by the detectives of the specialized criminal investigations unit. These are their stories.As a psychological thriller wrapped in a criminal investigation, Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent follows an elite squad of detectives who investigate high-profile crime and corruption in metro Toronto. The premiere, "Diplomatico": Bateman must adjust to an unexpected change when she is assigned a new partner from the Guns & Gangs unit. Season 4 starts on Citytv.

Detective Charlie Hudson, a cunning Major Crimes detective for the St. John's Police Department, teams up with an unusual partner – Rex, a former-K9 German Shepherd, whose heightened senses keep Charlie hot on the trail of his suspects. Together, they investigate puzzling crimes, from a kidnapping which reveals a much larger conspiracy at play to an art theft murder which runs deep into the world of high society. With Charlie's deft detective work and Rex's keen canine senses, this crime-fighting pair is unstoppable. The premiere, "The Man in the Hoodie": Detective Mark Hudson and K9 Rex probe a pro wrestler's murder before a charity event. They explore wrestling rivalries, grudges, and backstage conflicts to catch the killer and save an animal shelter. Season 9 starts on Citytv.

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.

A 15.6 km automated subway across Toronto with 15 stations, built to relieve the overloaded Line 1. Estimated date.

Toronto's Ontario Line, a new subway line meant to relieve one of North America's most congested cities, is under construction with its budget already well past the original estimate.

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.