
Tyler Cheese
Reporter
Tyler Cheese reports on local and provincial news in Toronto and the GTA. You can contact him at tyler.cheese@cbc.ca or @TylerRCheese on X.
Latest from Tyler Cheese

Ford says Eglinton Crosstown LRT still on track to open in September 2025
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit line is still on track to open this September.
Canada -Toronto |

Mimico residents vow to keep pressure on Metrolinx to make local GO station accessible
South Etobicoke residents are vowing to continue the pressure on Metrolinx to make the GO station in their area more accessible despite reassurances from the provincial transit agency that improvements are coming.
Canada -Toronto |

An Ontario mother pleads for answers 15 years after her son's murder
Glenn Lowe Jr. was shot and killed at the back door of his Toronto home in 2010. Fifteen years later, his mother hopes circumstances have changed for people who might have more information, and she's urging them to come forward.
Canada -Toronto |

Veterans use front-line experience to help Peterborough, Ont., with ice storm recovery
Peterborough was hit with 20 millimetres of ice build up during the storm. Volunteers from humanitarian aid organization, Team Rubicon, have been helping to clear fallen trees all week.
Canada -Toronto |
Downtown coffee shop vandalized 3 times, MP alleges antisemitism
A coffee shop in downtown Toronto has been vandalized three times in the past year, including twice in one week, and a local MP is blaming antisemitism.
Canada -Toronto |

How Ontario's online gambling industry is faring 3 years into legalization
Ontario residents generated $2.2 billion for online gaming platforms in the sector’s second fiscal year since legalization. But some say marketing for the platforms should be restricted or banned altogether.
Canada -Toronto |
How 5 years of COVID-19 has prepared Toronto to face potential crises in the future
Five years on, Toronto-area doctors and public health officials are looking back at what they've learned since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — and most agree the early experience will prove useful if the city faces another infectious disease crisis.
Canada -Toronto |

Toronto food banks brace for the worst in the face of looming tariff threat
Daily Bread Food Bank says it’s already expecting to spend $2.5 million more than expected this year – and that’s before factoring in the increased demand U.S. tariffs would cause.
Canada -Toronto |

This 100-year-old Toronto man wants to break the world record for oldest person to helicopter ski
Gordon Precious previously held the record for oldest heliskier when he was 94 years old. A few years later, a 95-year-old took the title, but now Precious is ready to take it back.
Canada -Toronto |

World's largest pearl, valued at $140M, returns to Toronto
The 27.65 kilogram Giga Pearl will feature at the opening event for an exhibit by artist Abraham Reyes. The pearl is owned by Reyes, who inherited it from family.
Canada -Toronto |