Toronto floods: City infrastructure ‘not designed’ to handle such high volumes of water, officials warn

Speaking in Toronto, Ont., on Wednesday, Mayor Olivia Chow and City Manager Paul Johnson addressed the major flooding that hit the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) the day before. “The challenge is that much of this city is just not designed to handle this amount of water that’s coming down. And that’s what we saw yesterday,” Johnson said.

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