Start your day with FirstUp, the Star's morning news digest: Winter storm upends holiday travel + the province changes how wetlands are evaluated
Silver lining:
Here’s how three strangers stuck in Toronto en route to Sault Ste. Marie made the best of their situation.On the eve of winter holidays, the province finalized its proposed changes to the “Ontario Wetland Evaluation System” — a scoring method that determines if a wetland warrants provincial protection.
Here’s how the organization is fostering “warmth and community and connection” among newcomers this winter.“As the winter came, I started to understand , because that tied to that loneliness and the fact of not having family or a very tight group of friends in Canada,” said one woman who moved to Toronto in 2018. “The winter actually hit a lot harder.”
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