On 1 April 2018, DailyHive.com — a web site dedicated to local Canadian news — posted a story that reported that Disney would be opening a multi-billion dollar resort in the Toronto Islands, just south of mainland Toronto.
The rather elaborate story reports:
The $6.5-billion attraction, known as "Toronto Disney Resort," centres on the construction of Canada’s very own Disneyland theme park – Toronto Disneyland – on the site of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.
Other public spaces on the islands beyond the airport site will be maintained as accessible park space and improved through a new parks lands management partnership with Disney.
There will also be hotels on the island, next to Disneyland, and improved transportation links between the island and downtown.
To the disappointment of many Toronto residents, there won't be a Disneyland park nearby. The story is labeled at the bottom as an April Fool's Day prank, which many sharing the story seem to have missed:
A "Toronto Disneyland" link at the bottom also takes readers not to a site featuring the new "Happiest Place on Earth" location, but to the PortsToronto web site.
