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Swimming 'strongly discouraged': Parks Canada closes Scarborough's Rouge Beach for urgent repairs

Swimming 'strongly discouraged': Parks Canada closes Scarborough's Rouge Beach for urgent repairs

Beachgoers will find it harder to get to the sand in Scarborough this month after Parks Canada declared Rouge Beach temporarily closed. The federal agency in charge of Rouge National Urban Park says a sandbar formed in front of the river, blocking the Rouge River’s natural flow into Lake Ontario.