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Monday, March 2nd 2015

Just-In-Time Jobs: A CBC Toronto Town Hall Wednesday, March 4, 7:30 - 9:00pm | Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front Street West. *Doors open at 7:00pm. First come, first seated. The world of work is changing. Gone are the days of guaranteed full-time work with benefits. Today, barely half of working adults in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area have full-time, permanent jobs with benefits and some degree of security. Join us for Just-In-Time Jobs, a CBC Toronto's town hall on the changing face of employment. Moderated by Metro Morning's Matt Galloway. Can't join us in person? Watch the live stream on cbc.ca/toronto or tune into CBC Radio One, 99.1FM to listen live.  READ more

Toronto Neighbourhoods Photo Contest Have a favourite pic from your neighbourhood? Share it with us! On Friday, March 6th, Toronto will celebrate its 181st birthday. To help mark the occasion, we want to feature the neighbourhoods that make our city feel like home.  To Enter:  Until midnight on Friday March 6th, share your favourite photos from your neighbourhood. You can enter via our contest entry form. You can also: Email your photo to cbctorontocommunity@cbc.ca, Tweet us @CBC_TOCommunity, or Tag us cbctoronto on Instagram  (hashtag #MyToronto)  Throughout the day on Friday, March 6th, we'll feature some of your photos on Twitter. Plus, we'll randomly select one winner who will receive a CBC prize pack filled with goodies! READ more

Mary Ito interviews Matt Galloway at the Book Lovers Ball.  WATCH the interview here

Canada Reads Warm Up in Toronto Wednesday, March 4, 7:00 p.m | Toronto Reference Library Atrium, 789 Yonge Street What is the one book to break barriers? That's the question to answer in the 14th edition of Canada Reads, CBC's battle of the books. Celebrate the launch of Canada Reads right here in Toronto with a special Canada Reads event hosted by CBC's Mary Ito. Featured guests include: Kristin Kreuk who is defending Intolerable and author Kamal Al-Solaylee will join us via Skype. Raziel Reid, author of When Everything Feels like the Movies Kim Thúy, author of Ru Hayden King, who will talk about The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King. Hayden is Pottawatomi and Ojibwe from Beausoleil First Nation on Gchimnissing (Christian Island) in Huronia, Ontario and Director of the Centre for Indigenous Governance in the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University. GET more info and book two FREE tickets

Congratulations CBC News Toronto! Congratulations to the CBC News Toronto team, who were awarded the prestigious Best Local Newscast at the Canadian Screen Awards. Watch CBC News Toronto, with your hosts Dwight Drummond and Anne-Marie Mediwake, weekdays at 5:00 and 6:00pm.