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Is Toronto weakening its rules against industrial pollution?
Changes to city by-law would make it easier for Toronto industry to flush arsenic, mercury, lead, PCBs and other nasty pollutants down the drain. When the city’s system overflows - like it did on Wednesday night - these pollutants end up in Lake Ontario.