{"id":585509,"date":"2026-04-06T09:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585509\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:01:20","slug":"toronto-beaches-easter-parade-ends-roads-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585509\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Beaches Easter Parade ends, roads reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto\u2019s annual Easter parade took place in the Beaches despite the damp weather. Natalie Johnson reports. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Roads in Toronto\u2019s east end have officially reopened following the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beacheseasterparade.ca\/parade\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.beacheseasterparade.ca\/parade\">Beaches Easter Parade<\/a> on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 60th annual parade, hosted by the Toronto Beaches Lions Club, began at 2 p.m. along Queen Street East at Munroe Park Avenue and made its way toward Woodbine Avenue, Lake Shore Boulevard East and Coxwell Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65508\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65508\/\">Toronto Police had closed<\/a> several major routes throughout the day to accommodate the event, with full and partial closures in place along Queen Street East, Woodbine Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Those restrictions were lifted by late afternoon after the parade concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Transit service is also expected to return to normal after temporary reroutes impacted TTC buses and the 501 Queen streetcar during the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The parade went ahead rain or shine, with the sun noticeably making an appearance throughout parts of the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto\u2019s annual Easter parade took place in the Beaches despite the damp weather. Natalie Johnson reports. Roads in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-585509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}