AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Annual Summary of Reportable Communicable Diseases

**This dataset has not been update since 2019 due to COVID-19, and will be resumed in 2026/2027.**

The [Health Protection and Promotion Act (HPPA)](https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h07%20) outlines the diseases of public health significance designated as reportable in the province of Ontario. A list of these diseases can be found [here](https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/9666-tph-CDSU-Reportable-Disease-List-May-2018.pdf). Toronto Public Health analyses and assesses data for these diseases on an ongoing basis, and provides annual summaries of these data. This information is updated annually,  and the most recent information should be considered the most accurate.

For more info, see [here.](https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/health-wellness-care/health-inspections-monitoring/communicable-diseases-toronto/)


Tags: communicable disease, epidemiology, healthcare, surveillance
Organization: City of Toronto
Tennis Courts Facilities

This dataset includes data on tennis court locations that belong to the City of Toronto. 

Some locations are public, others are 'clubs' (these sites are operated by not-for-profit Community Tennis Clubs and require a membership with some access available for non-members during public access hours) - refer to ‘Club’ in the [Type] column. Tennis courts may be lit or not. Every Location is identified by (X, Y) GIS coordinate. 

You will find the following in this dataset:

  * ID
  * Name
  * Type (Public or Club)
  * Lights (Y/N)
  * Courts
  * Phone
  * ClubName
  * ClubWebsite
  * ClubInfo
  * LocationAddress
  * WinterPlay (Y/N)
  * GIS coordinates

For more information, see the [tennis court listings page] (https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/parks-recreation/places-spaces/parks-and-recreation-facilities/tennis-court-listings/).

Historical data is also provided from March 31, 2017.

The source of the data is  the City of Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation Asset Management System. Dataset has gone through necessary inter-divisional validation and on-site validation with parks supervisors.

Tags: tennis court, tennis facility
Organization: City of Toronto
Toronto Bids Non-Competitive Contracts

The Non-Competitive Contracts dataset contains a list of non-competitive contracts processed by the Purchasing and Materials Management Division on behalf of the City of Toronto. These non-competitive contract procurements were processed in accordance with the requirements under Chapter 195, Purchasing By-law and the Procurement Processes Policy.

Non-Competitive Contracts are posted on the Toronto Bids Portal and are available for 18 months after the date the contract is created.

MaRS Non-Competitive Procurements are identifiable by the Title.

Organization: City of Toronto
Noise Exemption Permits

The Noise Bylaw provides standards for noise in Toronto. This includes decibel
limits and time restrictions for some types of noise. Individuals and organizations
can apply for a noise exemption permit for specific events or activities that
may be in contravention of the Noise Bylaw if all application requirements are
met.

This dataset includes all noise exemption permits issued as of January 1, 2024, as well as any active permits that were issued prior to this date.

For more information please visit the [Noise webpage](https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/public-notices-bylaws/bylaw-enforcement/noise/).
 

Tags: allowed, disturbance, event, exemption, licence, loud, noise, permission, permit
Organization: City of Toronto
Monthly Communicable Disease Surveillance Data

The [Health Protection and Promotion Act](https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h07) (HPPA) outlines the communicable diseases that are designated reportable in the province of Ontario.  A list of these diseases can be found[ the List of Reportable Diseases web page.](https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/health-wellness-care/information-for-healthcare-professionals/communicable-disease-info-for-health-professionals/report-a-communicable-disease/list-of-reportable-diseases/)  Toronto Public Health analyses and reviews data for these diseases on an ongoing basis, and provides monthly summaries of these data.  Given that quality assurance checks are completed prior to analysing and posting these data, there is a reporting lag of approximately two months. 


Tags: communicable disease, public health, surveillance
Organization: City of Toronto
Report Request Log – City Council and its Committees

The City Clerk's Office maintains a log of report requests made by City Council and its committees. The log is intended for reference and convenience purposes. 

**What you'll see in the log**

Report requests adopted by City Council and its committees and the Board of Health

**Exceptions**

The following report requests are not included in the log:

- Committee requests for reports directly to Council for consideration with an agenda item.

- Report requests made by the Budget Committee for briefing notes/reports to itself during the Budget process.

- Report requests adopted by other Boards supported by the City Clerk's Office Secretariat.


**How requests are logged**

Requests for reports adopted on the same item are generally logged individually, as different staff or timelines may apply. Except where a directive is clear, a request for a report "to Council" means a report through the usual legislative process – the appropriate Committee.

**When reports are due**

The report back timing of requests is logged:
- by specific date where indicated: YYYY-MM-DD; or

- by the timeframe where indicated. For example "Q2 2019"; "by the end of 2020"; "annually".

If the request does not include a report back date, the timing will be logged as "not indicated".

**Status of Report Requests**
- Open - When a report request is adopted by committee or Council.
- Closed - When staff determine that the report request has been addressed by a subsequent agenda item. A link to the "closing" item is included in the status column of the log.
- Due - When the report back timing has been reached and no report has been submitted.
- Ongoing - When the report back timing is ongoing.
- Not carried forward (NCF) - outstanding report requests are not carried forward to the next term report log.

**Keeping the Log Up to Date**

The City Clerk's Office updates the log at the end of each meeting cycle. Staff can contact <councilmeeting@toronto.ca> if a report status needs to be updated or corrected.



Organization: City of Toronto
Toronto Bids Awarded Contracts

The Competitive Contracts dataset contains a list and summary of information about competitive contract that have been cancelled or awarded for goods and various services for the City of Toronto (e.g. Request for Proposal, Request for Quotation, Tenders, Request for Information, Request for an Expression of Interest, Request for Pre-Qualification and Offer to Purchase).

The contract awards include goods and services including professional services and construction services made on behalf of the City of Toronto Divisions and designated Agencies, Boards and Commissions (e.g. CNE, Toronto Atmospheric Fund).

All solicitations were publicly advertised in accordance with Chapter 195, Purchasing By-law. Contracts were awarded to the lowest bidder meeting specifications for Request for Quotations and Tenders, and the highest scoring proponent in the case of Request for Proposals.

Competitive Contracts are posted on the Toronto Bids Portal and are available for 18 months after the date the contract is created.

Organization: City of Toronto
Bike Share Toronto Ridership Data

This Bike Share Toronto ridership dataset contains anonymized trip data. It includes:

<ul>
<li>Trip ID</li>
<li>Trip Duration</li>
<li>Trip Start Station ID</li>
<li>Trip Start time</li>
<li>Trip Start Station Location</li>
<li>Trip End Station ID</li>
<li>Trip End Time</li>
<li>Trip End Station Location</li>
<li>Bike ID</li>
<li>User type</li>
</ul>

Organization: City of Toronto
Building Permits - Green Roofs

The Green Roof By-law was adopted by Toronto City Council May 2009 under the
authority of section 108 of the City of Toronto Act. Toronto is the first city
in North America to have a by-law requiring and governing the construction of
green roofs. The bylaw applies to new commercial, institutional and many
residential development applications and to certain developments not completed
before the bylaw came into effect on Jan 31, 2010

The Eco-Roof Incentive Program provides incentives to support the installation of green roofs and cool roofs on Toronto homes and buildings. Known collectively as eco-roofs, these technologies along with other City strategies help to make Toronto more resilient and better adapted to climate change. To learn more and access funding to support your project please visit [Eco-Roof Incentive Program](https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/water-environment/environmental-grants-incentives/green-your-roof/).

Data for Eco-Roof Incentive Program are updated quarterly while all green roofs are updated weekly. Because of this, there may be some Green Roofs that have gone through the Eco-Roof Incentive Program that won’t be marked as such for a few weeks after their data has been entered

Tags: building permit, green roof
Organization: City of Toronto
Permanent Bicycle Counters

This dataset contains counts of bicycles from permanent detectors installed on Toronto streets and multi-use paths. The City uses the data to monitor trends in people cycling and the seasonal use of bicycle lanes. Additional new count stations are being added to the system and the data will be brought online when data validation is completed.

The following files showing different views of the data are available:

* **Detector Locations (cycling\_permanent\_counts\_locations)**: Location and metadata of each detector. This table references the [City of Toronto's Street Centreline](https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/toronto-centreline-tcl/) dataset.

* **Daily Counts (cycling\_permanent\_counts\_daily)**: Total daily counts by location and direction

* **15-minute Counts (cycling\_permanent\_counts\_15min)**: 15-minute counts by direction and location. 1-hour counts are provided if 15-minute counts are not available.

* **Readme and Data Dictionary (cycling\_permanent\_counts\_readme)**: Provides a detailed definition of each data table and it's corresponding columns.

Tags: activeto, bike, biking, cycling, micromobility, multimodal
Organization: City of Toronto
Toronto Shelter System Flow

The City of Toronto funds and operates services dedicated to people experiencing homelessness in Toronto. The overnight services, including emergency shelters, respites, and other allied services (including hotel/motel programs and warming centres), use the Shelter Management Information System (SMIS) to intake people who are accessing these services into their programs.

The Shelter System Flow data shares information about people experiencing homelessness who are entering and leaving the shelter system each month, including the number of unique people who have used the shelter system at least one time in the past three months and are considered to be actively experiencing homelessness (ie; they were not discharged to permanent housing). 

This information provides insight into who is experiencing homelessness and how the City's system is functioning. It will also help measure progress towards the vision of reducing homelessness in Toronto to rare, brief, and non-recurring instances. 

Over time, the data will be expanded to capture more people, such as people sleeping outdoors and people using overnight homelessness services that are not funded by the City of Toronto to provide more comprehensive picture of all people experiencing homelessness in Toronto. Based on the most recent Street Needs Assessment, we anticipate that approximately 18 per cent of people experiencing homelessness in Toronto are not currently reflected in this data. 


Tags: affordable housing, homeless, intake, shelters
Organization: City of Toronto
Residential Front Yard Parking

**Address -** Number and street

**Licensed Spaces -** Number of parking spots

**Parking Type -** Type of Permit e.g. Front-Yard Parking, Widened Driveway
etc

**Ward -** Electoral ward

Applies only to residential addresses within boundaries of City of Toronto



**Note:** The license for that space is not transferable to the new owners
(unless they also have a valid permit issued by the MTO)



Tags: front yard parking, parking spot
Organization: City of Toronto
Festivals & Events

**Description and Purpose of the Dataset**

This dataset lists all festivals, special events and exhibits (etc.) approved to appear on the City of Toronto Festivals and Events Calendar.

All details are submitted by the event's organizer/organization, reviewed by City of Toronto - Tourism Services staff (against established submission criteria) and approved for posting to the calendar. The City is not responsible for the accuracy of the self-identified data provided by the organizations.

**Source(s) of the Data**

The City collects data from event organizers via web interface. City staff review the data for completeness before it goes up on the City's calendar. Accuracy of data is the responsibility of each organization.

**Update to the City of Toronto Festivals and Events Calendar**

The City of Toronto Festivals and Events Calendar is undergoing an update that is expected to greatly improve the ease of submitting festival, special event and exhibit information and will provide a better display for the public to view information. 

The existing data was shared in an XML format. Data for the new calendar will be available in JSON format. Changes have been made to fields and data display may be effected.

**Note:**  

Image URLs in this feed need to add https://secure.toronto.ca to the beginning. e.g. https://secure.toronto.ca/webapps/CC/fileAPI/edc\_eventcal/Arctic\_signature\_th\_ymVcv32iXtmmfg3zXPBH7w.png

All details are submitted by the event's organizer/organization, reviewed by City of Toronto - Tourism Services staff (against established submission criteria) and approved for posting to the calendar. The City is not responsible for the accuracy of the self-identified data provided by the organizations.


Tags: events, festivals
Organization: City of Toronto
Library Branch General Information

This dataset shows the current characteristics of Toronto Public Library branches, such as location, size, and the availability of specific features (e.g. parking, KidsStops, Digital Innovation Hubs, etc.). Additionally, this dataset provides details on other TPL services & collections (e.g. Answerline, bookmobiles, Home Library Service, Merril Collection, Sunnybrook Hospital, etc.).

Tags: library, tpl
Organization: City of Toronto
311 Service Requests - Customer Initiated

The dataset contains information on customer initiated service requests received by 311 Toronto. This data was collected from multiple channels including telephone, fax, email, online self-serve requests, mobile API and Twitter.

311 manages City divisional service request data for Solid Waste Management, Transportation Services, Toronto Water, Municipal Licensing & Standards, and Urban Forestry. 311 consulted with these participating divisions and subject matter experts for this dataset release.

**Attributes:**

* **Service Request Creation Date and Time** - The date and time when a service request (SR) is created and submitted into a work management system of a respective Service Request Division.<br> 
* **Service Request Location** - The readable description of location recorded for the service request. The location is recorded as the first three characters of the postal code of the service request (forward sortation area: FSA), or the street intersection of the location of the service request. The Open Data set only shows SRs which are validated in the City's GeoSpatial system. Such SRs would have either street address or intersection specified as a location.<br> 
* **Original Service Request Type** - The readable name of the service request type also known as problem code name created by 311 Toronto on behalf of the customer. The 311 Contact Centre creates the request which is transmitted to the appropriate City division for action.<br> 
* **Service Request Status** - The current status of the service request<br> 
* **Initiated** \- the service request has been received and assigned to the appropriate City division for review and action.<br> 
* **In Progress** \- The assigned City division is currently working on resolving the service request.<br> 
* **Canceled** \- A service request is cancelled for one of several reasons i.e., call is disconnected, caller doesn't wish to create the SR, caller calls back to cancel the request or the SR is created in error, etc.,<br> 
* **Closed** \- The appropriate City division has investigated the customer concern and has taken the necessary action to resolve the request.<br> 
* **Service Request Division** \- Represents the responsible 311 Integrated Service Division.  Division shown in the Open Data shall correspond to the original SR type, regardless of subsequent SR type changes by the back-end divisions.<br> 
* **Service Request Section-Unit** \- Represents the section or unit within the responsible 311 Integrated Service Division.<br> 
* **Service Request Ward** - Represents the readable description of the electoral ward name and number recorded for the service request. The Open Data System will display ward as follows: Ward Name, Ward Number.

Tags: 311, complaints, curb side, customer initiated, garbage, garbage collection, graffiti, pot holes, service requests
Organization: City of Toronto
Cycling Network

The Toronto bikeways dataset illustrates the existing cycling network across the city, including both shared and dedicated bikeways. A summary of the network status is available at toronto.ca/cyclingnetwork 

The Toronto bikeways dataset contains the following types of bikeways: cycle tracks, bicycle lanes (including buffered bike lanes and contra-flow bike lanes), neighbourhood routes with sharrows (including wayfinding sharrows), multi-use trails (including off-road and in-boulevard), as well as signed cycling routes. 

There are two fields that reference the bikeway type because some streets have different infrastructure on each side of the roadway. "INFRA-HIGH" refers to the highest classified cycling infrastructure type installed on this segment. "INFRA-LOW" refers to the lowest classified cycling infrastructure type. The hierarchy is based on the quality and comfort of the bikeway type, with routes that are shared with vehicles as the lowest comfort, and the greater the separation / dedicated space, the higher the comfort and classification.

For example, on a contra-flow bike lane route with sharrows in the other direction, the highest classified cycling infrastructure type on this street is the contra-flow bike lane, and the lower order infrastructure is the sharrows. If the street has the same type of cycling infrastructure on both sides, then the input is the same for both "INFRA-LOW" and "INFRA-HIGH". If there is a bikeway on only one side of a street, the bikeway type is listed under "INFRA-HIGH", and the "INFRA-LOW" field is blank.

The "SHAPE_LENGTH" field identifies the length of the segment, which is measured in centreline metres. 

Bikeways installed prior to 2001 are shown with an install year of 2001.



Tags: bicycle lane, bicycle path, bicycle route, bike lane, bike pathway, bike route, bike trail, bikeway network
Organization: City of Toronto
Contributing Areas

Contributing Areas are illustrated on Map 9A and described in a sidebar in chapter 3.4 of the [Official Plan](https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/official-plan-guidelines/official-plan/). Contributing Areas are not part of the natural heritage system. Contributing areas support Toronto’s ecosystems and natural heritage features and functions. They provide opportunities for habitat connectivity and natural linkages across the city; they include habitat areas that are highly suitable for birds; and/or they contribute to groundwater systems that support sensitive areas like wetlands and cold water streams. These are areas where efforts should be made to protect and enhance ecological function and biodiversity by maintaining and enhancing existing tree canopy and soft landscaping, and encouraging other green infrastructure measures.

Tags: development
Organization: City of Toronto
Registry of Dogs Subject to and Issued a Dangerous Dog Order

Dangerous Dog Orders issued to dogs by the City of Toronto that are currently active will be listed here. A Dangerous Dog Order is issued when it is confirmed that a dangerous act (Any bite, attack, act of menacing behaviour or any combination of a bite, attack or act of menacing behaviour.) has occurred and the act is deemed severe or is the second consecutive act on record. This data set is updated monthly. 

For more information about Dangerous Dog Orders, please visit [toronto.ca/dangerousdogs](https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/animals-pets/pets-in-the-city/dogs-in-the-city/dog-bites-or-attacks/)

For more information on the council motion associated with this data, please see [Agenda Item History 2024.EC10.2](https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2024.EC10.2) for the motion related to this dataset. 

To ensure public awareness of where dangerous dog orders have been served and to protect the health and safety of residents, beginning May 2025, postal codes have been added to this dataset for all severe and very severe bites. For more information on this decision, please see Agenda Item [2025.EC19.5](https://secure.toronto.ca/council/agenda-item.do?item=2025.EC19.5).

For more information on Dangerous Dog Review Tribunal, please see [https://secure.toronto.ca/council/#/committees/2642/24710](https://secure.toronto.ca/council/#/committees/2642/24710)


Tags: attack, bite
Organization: City of Toronto
TTC Routes and Schedules

__The TTC may provide additional updates as required to address service impacts related to the global pandemic.__


Data contains scheduling information (route definitions, stop patterns, stop locations, and schedules). The data is published as a GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) file format.  

The following URL provides a detailed description of the GTFS file format: http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html

The following URL provides a detailed description of the accessibility information being added to the GTFS specification:

[https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs](https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs)

[https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs-realtime](https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs-realtime)

Data contains scheduling information (route definitions, stop patterns, stop locations, and schedules). The data is published as a GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) file format. The TTC provides updates approx. every 6 weeks.

The new merged GTFS contains the GTFS for all transportation modes (subway, streetcars, and buses) can be found [here](https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/merged-gtfs-ttc-routes-and-schedules/)

Tags: routes, schedules, ttc
Organization: City of Toronto
Centralized Waiting List Activity for Social Housing

This dataset contains the activity of the Centralized Waiting List (CWL) since 2019. The CWL is made up of applicants for Social, or Rent-Geared-To-Income (RGI), Housing units in Toronto. 

Tags: Housing, Rent-geared-to-income, Social, Subsidized, Waitlist, access, application, apply
Organization: City of Toronto