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Toronto police officers investigate after human remains were found behind Charlies Meat and Seafood Store at 383 Broadview Ave. at Simpson Avenue on Tuesday. Police said the remains are those of woman with light skin.

Woman’s remains found in Riverdale joANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Toronto police believe remains located late Tuesday near Broadview Avenue and Gerrard Street East are those of an adult woman.

“We believe it is a female with light skin. … We’re treating as though this is a human being, a female,” said Det. Sgt. Terry Browne of the Toronto police

homicide squad shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday. “The investigation begins on how this individual ended up here.”

Browne would not reveal exactly what part of the woman’s body was found, but did indicate it appears the death was “fairly recent” based on the condition of the remains.

Toronto police were called to the rear of Charlies Meat and Seafood store, 383 Broadview

Ave. at Simpson Avenue, around 11:20 a.m. Tuesday for reports of unknown trouble.

Once on scene, officers from 55 Division located a bag that appeared to contain some sort of remains. Employees from the butcher shop had made the discovery a short time earlier.

Members of the Homicide, Forensics and Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear units were contacted. The

Coroner also attended the scene and removed the remains early Tuesday evening.

Former Riverdale resident Ron Baird, who rented a garage on the same property from Charlie Cheung (the owner of Charlies Meat store) for more than a decade, came down from Pickering when he heard the news. “It’s pretty wild. It’s surreal,” he said. >>>POLICE, page 2

Big plans are in the works to transform a seven-acre site at 721 Eastern Ave. in the Studio District into the new multiuse Toronto GM Mobility Campus.

Earlier this week, General Mo t o r s o f C a n a d a L t d . announced it has completed the purchase of the east-end property, which is currently home to Cinespace Studios.

General Motors plans on developing the site into office space, research and development facilities, GM vehicle sales and services including electric vehicle sales, and what it’s calling a “public experience centre” featuring innovations in mobility.

In a release this week, Steve Carlisle, General Motors of Canada’s president and managing director, said the company is “very excited to be bringing GM Canada back into downtown Toronto with a future-oriented approach that will engage the community, universities, our customers and many other partners in the exciting transformations taking place in the automotive industry today.

“Downtown Toronto will >>>GM, page 2

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GM will help film Police looking to studio to relocate identify woman >>>from page 1 now be home to two dynamic growing industries – automotive technology and film production. It’s a double win,” he said.

As part of the deal, GM will be working closely with Cinespace to help the film studio relocate and expand in the port lands and elsewhere.

Current film tenants will also be provided ample transition time, GM said in the release.

Cinespace Film Studios’ President Steve Mirkopoulos said they’ve found an “excellent partner in GM,” one who will “continue the tradition of high-quality jobs at this site.”

“This transaction also means no disruption for the vibrant film business in the short term, and provides us with the resources and time to develop our future vision

>>>from page 1 “It’s not an easy thing to see or hear. It’s just too close to home.”

Baird called the situation “mind boggling” and said he hopes police can get to the bottom of it.

Investigators are asking “anyone walking in the area that might have seen something that caught their attention” to contact them immediately.

“It could be anything,” Browne said.

“We suspect someone would have seen something in the area.”

for Cinespace,” he said.

“This is a tremendous international-level win for the city of Toronto.”

Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher said she’s also excited about the possibilities for GM and Cinespace in the city’s east end.

“This is a major investment in our community by GM. We have fought long and hard for good jobs in our community and this will attract engineering, professional, high-paying jobs to this campus,” she said in a release.

“It will also be a leading centre for green transportation and will allow the current film studio to be relocated from this site to bigger, better production facilities in the east end.”

General Motors of Canada Ltd., headquartered in Oshawa, ON, employs more than 9,000 people across the Canada.

Seeking info He said police have been canvassing the neighbourhood and are working on obtaining video footage.

Browne also said at this point police are not calling the “suspicious” discovery a

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“...Our primary concern right now is to identify who this person is. We really have very little to go on.

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“We’re following up on a few leads with regards to this location but our primary concern right now is to identify who this person is. We really have very little to go on,” he said, adding police are still in the very early stages of their investigation.

Anyone with information should contact police at 416808-7400, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips. co, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637).

Fundraiser set to help cover man’s burial costs The management of Udupi Palace, a popular south Indian vegetarian restaurant in Little India, is reaching out to those who knew and loved employee Sudesh Shetty for help.

Shetty died April 13 at the age of 32.

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Cloud Nine/Rotana Cafe site had links to three murders in past three years

JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com A hookah lounge at 1530 Danforth Ave., just east of Coxwell Avenue, has been shut down.

On Monday, the bailiff terminated the lease agreement and changed the locks at Cloud Nine Café, which was previously known as Rotana Café.

This establishment has been associated with three murders in three years.

The latest incident, Toronto’s 26th homicide of 2016, happened early Sunday when a 20-year-old Toronto man, Abdullah Farah, was killed in a drive-by shooting. Investigators believe shots were fired from a moving vehicle and are looking for a white, four-door sedan.

Just more than a year ago, 21-yearold Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf was fatally shot outside what was then known as Rotana Café.

Beach Triangle resident Dominic Parker, who worked as a firefighter in Markham, was stabbed to death there in September 2013. Late last year, Nabil Huruy, who has a mental health disorder, was found to be not criminally responsible for Parker’s death.

Closure pleases councillor “I’m very pleased it has been closed down and it looks like there will be a great new use there,” Ward 30 Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher said late Tuesday afternoon, pointing to a new childcare centre slated to take over that site and three adjoining storefronts.

“It’s really disheartening a family had to lose a son in order for something to happen at this location.”

In a strongly worded letter to Mayor John Tory, Fletcher and her Ward 29 councillor colleague Mary Fragedakis said the two previous murders at 1530 Danforth Ave. should never have been described as a “coincidence.”

The April 18 letter, which was sent to Tory prior to 1530 Danforth

Abdullah Farah, 20, was shot Sunday morning outside the Cloud Nine Cafe on Danforth Avenue. It was the third murder connected to a cafe at that location in the three years, and it was shut down on Monday.

Ave. being shuttered, goes on to say that local councillors, along with residents and many fine establishments along the Danforth, have tried every “conceivable avenue” to shut down Cloud 9/Rotana.

Police officers from 55 and 54 divisions also undertook a special project in the area, the Toronto Parking Authority stepped up security at its lot across the street and bylaw officers were regularly made aware of residents’ complaints to no avail.

The Danforth East Community Association created a new “Danforth East Means to Me” mural at the nearby Coxwell Parkette. The 30-foot-long mural project brought community members of all ages together to communicate their thoughts and feelings about building a safer area.

In the letter, Fletcher and Fragedakis also expressed their disappointment and outrage that this lounge was granted a business license by the city-appointed Licensing Tribunal on Sept. 3, 2015 without hearing from area residents.

“While this and other businesses beside it are scheduled to have their leases terminated in July, we need to keep this strip controlled until such time,” they wrote.

“Condition 6 of the Tribunal decision allows MLS to bring ‘any new charges…or…community concerns

relative to 1530 Danforth…back to the tribunal for a full hearing.’ A hearing with full participation by Toronto police and our residents is long overdue.”

During an interview, Fletcher said there are still a few businesses on the Danforth that need “special attention.”

“All of the establishments that aren’t working to a good neighbourhood standard had better take note,” she said.

Residents efforts Fletcher credited residents, especially those who live in the immediate area, for their many and ongoing efforts to shut down the former Cloud Nine/Rotana Café and overall to help make the neighbourhood a safer place.

On Sunday afternoon, about 20 frustrated neighbours gathered across the street from the scene of Toronto’s latest murder to take part in the Take Back the Danforth community rally, which called for immediate action on neighbourhood violence.

“We are very concerned with the recent spate of incidents,” said rally organizer Michael Rusek, who lives a few blocks away and was walking nearby about 15 minutes before the shooting.

“This gun violence is something

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Area resident Jan Brues-Dorang said the last couple of years have become “very frightening” near Danforth and Coxwell avenues, especially late at night.

“I used to be able to walk my dog around here,” she said. “As a group we have to speak out and start taking action.”

Bruels-Dorang, who has lived near Danforth and Coxwell avenues for about 18 years, said she often calls 55 Division to report drinking, pot smoking and other illegal activities at Coxwell Parkette and the neighbouring Green P parking lot, but said police rarely respond.

“They’re not taking action,” she said, adding she feels overall this issue is being “stalled by bureaucracy.”

“The police need to get back to patrolling this area.”

Billy Dertilis, the chair of the Danforth Mosaic Business Improvement Area, also attended the rally.

“I don’t think (this murder) is indicative of the neighbourhood,” said Dertilis, who owns Red Rocket Coffee and also lives in the area.

“Once you get rid of that business, you get rid of the problem,” he said.

“This isn’t a neighbourhood thing.

It’s a problematic establishment.”

Both Fletcher and Fragedakis were also on hand.

“No one believes this is a coincidence. This is outrageous. I’m not accepting this anymore,” said Fragedakis, who shortly after the rally contacted Rusek to share the news the lease for the Cloud 9 Café is being terminated.

Fletcher also expressed outrage about yet another person being killed near Danforth and Coxwell avenues.

“In three years, there have been eight murders on this stretch. Now we have nine and three of them, I believe, are associated with this address,” she said.

“This is a very serious situation.

It’s very concerning. Anybody could have been hit by a stray bullet.”

Fletcher called the problem a “systemic issue” and called on Tory, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders and various city departments to step in and do something immediately to remedy it.

Fletcher and Fragedakis said they are organizing a community meeting. Stay tuned for more details as they emerge.

Police continue to look for witnesses and information about this homicide.

Anyone with information should contact police at 416-808-5500, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.co, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637).

Daycare centre planned Scarborough resident Krista Dahlgren recently signed a lease for four properties at Danforth and Coxwell avenues, including 1530 Danforth Ave., and is planning on opening up a new daycare centre.

Dahlgren, who heard about this weekend’s murder and came by Sunday afternoon to see what was going on, said there’s a huge demand for more childcare spaces in the area and she’s hoping this latest incident will encourage the city to issue the permits and variances she needs to open up her new daycare facility sooner than later.

Jenny Domingues, who with her brother Roy co-owns Centre Line Martial Art Systems, which is next door to Cloud Nine Café, is supportive of this new tenant Her martial arts school will soon be part of the new daycare centre.

The Domingues’ are currently in the process of exploring moving into another property owned by the same landlord along the strip.

“I think a daycare would be great for the community, the block,” said Domingues, whose martial arts school was forced to cancel four classes Sunday due to the gun violence.

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e are 112 days into 2016.

In those 112 days, the homicide rate in Toronto has doubled from the same time last year according to the Toronto Police Service. That’s alarming any way you look at it.

As of Monday, 26 people have been murdered in the city. Some in broad daylight, others in the middle of the night. Residents awoken by gunshots, alerting them to another funeral, another cordoned off community, another family grieving.

But these crimes in the early part of the year, are not an indicator Toronto is embarking on a murderous rampage of vendettas.

A Toronto police investigator (who spoke on condition of anonymity) interviewed by The Mirror addressing this spate of violence the city, directly connects the our view in increase in murders to the abanof the controversial Public needed donment carding practice by officers.

Police advocates say that cardto help ing is the thin line between those solve crime who obey the law and those who do not. But the fact is, carding is a relatively recent innovation and Toronto police have been solving and preventing crimes for decades before such a program existed.

One thing that hasn’t changed in that time is us: people who are willing to keep an eye on the streets, and who help police investigate when a crime occurs.

Crime Stoppers has been an effective way for the public to help keep Toronto safe for a long time. The tip line is anonymous. Use it.

The carding debate is actually a distraction from the real matter at hand. What we should be talking about is the state of our city and how we can ensure it remains safe for everyone - no matter your race, age or gender.

Toronto has a population of 2.6 million people, numbers from 2011 show. Twenty-six murders among 2.6 million people is not a very high ratio, but each one has a devastating impact on those who knew and loved the victim. These numbers, though, are not indicative of a city where people are shuttering themselves away, afraid to leave their homes.

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Drums of city’s cycling war seem to be silenced It is springtime and even in this slow, hesitant, let’sbe-honest-way-too-chilly springtime, it’s hard not to think about bicycles.

Now that is not to say we all think the same thing about bicycles.

Alongside light rail, UberX, the Gardiner Expressway and subways, subways, subways, the place of two-wheeled locomotion divides opinion in this town better than a curbseparated bikeway.

It was only six years ago that an entire election was fought over bicycles, after over-reaching cycling advocates managed to convince council to paint bike lanes on Jarvis Street.

That was it: the ‘war on the car,’ and everybody was in: the motorists from Don Mills and Leaside and Rosedale, who favoured Jarvis as a fast route downtown; the bicyclists who favoured Jarvis Street as a less bumpy alternative to the cracked and heaving lanes on Sherbourne a few

david nickle the city streets over. And of course politicians and newspaper editorialists, who found the controversy to be an effective delineation of the left and the right in matters of urban planning.

The lanes didn’t last long after the 2010 election.

Bizarrely, that removal led to a kind of truce.

Councillor Denzil MinnanWong, who chaired the Public Works and Environment Committee, created a Berlin Wall of sorts on Toronto’s roads, pushing the creation of fully separated cycle tracks: first on a no-longer-bumpy Sherbourne, and then through the downtown on Wellesley, Richmond and Adelaide Streets. Bicycles and cars on these streets have their own separate but parallel routes. It seems to be working out well.

Now here we are, in the spring of 2016, and

on Monday, April 25, the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee is taking another step towards what might be a permanent armistice. The committee will be looking at a half-million dollar pilot project, to put cycle paths on Bloor Street West. It’s a short stretch, two and a half kilometres long, between Shaw Street and Avenue Road. If council goes along with the plan, it will go in in September. Oh, what a difference six years and a few cycle tracks make! In 2010, the city’s cycling office might have been proposing a pilot to cross the Rubicon.

Bloor Street has long been the prize in the eye of cycling advocates, because of its city-spanning scope.

One could take Bloor Street and the Danforth all the way from Scarborough to Etobicoke, in a single notvery-sweaty ride (Bloor and Danforth don’t have any challenging hills to speak of). The late former mayor Rob Ford would have

printed up a whole new batch of fridge magnets to rally the troops.

These days? John Tory took care when asked about it this week to explain this was only a pilot project and would be assessed without bias when it was finished.

But the drums of war seem largely silent.

At the same committee meeting, councillors will be considering a few other bike lane projects – these ones, the old-fashioned paint-on-pavement kind.

There are 11 of these, and they’re all over the place: most, it’s true, a quick pedal from the downtown, but one up on Sheppard West crossing the Addington Greenbelt. These kinds of lanes used to be big fights too, and maybe they still will be. But in these early days of the season...Hope springs eternal.

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Babysitter facing a dozen more sexual assault-related charges Accused held numerous local youth-related positions JOANNA LAVOIE jlavoie@insidetoronto.com Toronto police are urging parents to screen their child’s babysitter extra carefully after three more boys recently came forward in connection with an ongoing sexual assault and interference investigation involving well-known east-end man, Daniel Harker.

“The worst thing a parent can do is rush into a decision,” Det. Remo D’Antonio of Toronto Police Services (TPS) Sex Crime Unit said during a press conference at Toronto Police headquarters Wednesday, April 13.

“Take your time, that’s the best advice I can give, you.”

The 23-year-old Toronto man was first arrested on March 16 and charged with sexual assault and sexual interference stemming from a March 5 incident involving a six-year-old boy he was babysitting at the boy’s home near Woodbine and Danforth avenues.

Police alert On March 22, police issued a sexual assault alert, which resulted in further victims coming forward.

On April 13, D’Antonio announced Harker was arrested for a second time on April 12. He is now facing a dozen new related charges including five counts of sexual assault, five counts of sexual interference, one count of invitation to sexual touching and one count of committing an indecent act.

Investigators allege that between June 2012 and December 2013, a man sexually assaulted thenfive- and six-year old boys he was babysitting at the boys’ homes near Kingston Road and Victoria Park Avenue, and Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue, on two separate occasions.

Police also allege between September and December 2015, the accused sexually assaulted a then-eight-yearold boy he was babysitting at the child’s home near Pape Avenue and Dundas Street

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“The charges before the courts all arise from babysitting in personal homes. (The victims) are all very similar.

There is a pattern,” said Det. D’Antonio.

Harker often advertised his babysitting services online at care.com. He was also known to communicate with would-be babysitting jobs through Kijiji as well as through various Facebook groups, especially in the city’s east end, D’Antonio said.

D’Antonio said police are especially concerned as the accused also had access to many other children in the community having previously worked as a lunchroom monitor at Pape Avenue Junior Public School at 220 Langley Ave. Harker was also employed as a part-time recreation worker by the City of Toronto allowing him access to children at various locations including wading pools and gym classes.

Further, he worked with pre-school-aged and older children at the SH Armstrong

YOUTH RELATED JOBS In addition to offering his services as a babysitter, Daniel Harker: • was lunch room monitor at Pape Avenue JPS • was part-time recreation worker for City of Toronto at various wading pools and gym classes • worked with pre-schoolaged and older children at SH Armstrong Community Centre • was a pre-school daycare worker at Gledhill Child Care Centre • involved with Scouts Canada 2012 and 2013 Community Centre at 56 Woodfield Rd. and was also a pre-school daycare worker at Gledhill Child Care Centre, 2 Gledhill Ave. D’Antonio said Harker also had contact with children from 2012 and 2013 through his involvement in Scouts Canada.

Police are still looking for more information and believe there may be more victims.

D’Antonio urged parents to have honest, non-judgemental conversations with their children about Harker and ask open-ended questions.

“Children are extremely good judges of character and parents should be open to having conversations with them about the people they have contact with,” he said.

“It’s through those conversations that we begin our investigations.”

D’Antonio said he realizes some families may not want to file a criminal complaint with the police pertaining to an alleged incident but nonetheless urged victims to seek the help and support they need through the Child and Youth Advocacy Centre, a partnership among local community and government agencies comprised of specialized child abuse investigators.

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The Riverdale Historical Society (RHS) will be welcoming east-end writer, researcher, editor and speaker Elizabeth Muir to its next event on Tuesday, April 26.

Muir, a historian and the author of Riverdale: East of the Don, will be giving a presentation titled ‘Where were the women and children in historic Riverdale?’ The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Clubhouse, 550 Broadview Ave. Admission is $5 at the door

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The Fairmount Park Ice Masters will be celebrating the end of the season with their annual ‘Meltdown’ party event on Thursday, April 28.

The festivities will take place at the Linsmore Tavern, 1298 Danforth Ave., just east of Greenwood Avenue, from 8 to 11:30 p.m.

The evening will include live music by Redlight Ranch and Chris Birkett, a silent auction, the Ice Master awards presentation, and snacks.

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Dogs must now be leashed while walking in the area.

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Bernese Friends Walk on Sunday The third annual Toronto Bernese Friends Worldwide Walk is set for Sunday at Cherry Beach.

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Neighbourhood clean-ups planned for this weekend Numerous community cleanup events are set to take place in the Beach-Riverdale area this weekend.

Here are just a few of them: Friday, April 22 • Kingston Road Village, meet at Pegasus, 931 Kingston Rd. at 10:30 a.m., organized

by Pegasus and Ward 32 Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon • Glen Stewart Ravine with Glen Ames Senior Public School, meet at Williamson Road Bridge at 1 p.m., organized by Glen Ames School • Ralph Thornton Centre, 1 p.m.

Saturday, April 23 • Aldergrove Stairway and Woodbine Avenue West Hillside, 10 a.m. to noon, organized by the East Toronto Climate Action Group • Jeff Sloan Park, 137 Kingston Rd., 10 a.m. to noon, organized by Friends of Jeff Sloan Park • Amroth Alley and

Community Garden, 10 to 11:30 a.m., organized by Amroth residents • Merrill Park Dog Park and Ravine, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., organized by Merrill Park Dog Association • Phin Park, 10 a.m., organized by Friends of Phin Park • Monarch Park, 10 a.m. to noon, organized by Friends of Monarch Park Sunday, April 24 • Glen Stewart Ravine, meet at the Beech Avenue entrance to ravine at 10 a.m., organized by Friends of Glen Stewart Ravine • Stephenson Park, 10 a.m. to noon, organized by Friends of Stephenson Park • Kew Gardens, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., organized by Toronto Beaches Dog Association • Greenwood Park, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., organized by the Friends of Greenwood Park • Laneway from Craven to Glenside roads, 10 a.m. to noon.

Success of Blue Jays boosts baseball registrations across Toronto leagues NORM NELSON nnelson@insidetoronto.com For those who haven’t signed up their kids to play youth baseball in Toronto, you may be out of luck – and for that you can thank, in part, the Toronto Blue Jays.

A quick email survey of a couple of Toronto clubs confirmed a banner off-season in terms of registration.

“Royal York registration is up from last year – by about 17 per cent and has put us over the 1,000-player level,” responded Alan Waffle, president of the Royal York Baseball League (RYBL).

“This is not normal and definitely due to the Blue Jay success last year. I saw the same result in registration in the early ‘90s when the Jays won the world series.”

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The Leaside Baseball Association, in the past few years, kicked off house league baseball for the younger players, which has proven to be popular and has been growing each year, said Howard Birnie, Leaside Baseball Association president.

“However, the growth in some (divisions) is far beyond what we anticipated,” he said.

“I have no doubt that Blue Jays’ success is the major factor since I saw it in the late ‘80s into the ‘90s when they did so well.”

Last year in Leaside, he said, there were a total of 850 rep and house league players.

“This year it appears that we will have 1,050. This is, by far, the most in our history but until the past three to

four years we did not operate ages four to eight, which is where we now have the largest numbers.”

Waiting lists Waiting lists in most groups range from five to 25 “and growing as people realize that they should have registered their kids earlier. We are now discouraging people to bother going on (a) waiting list,” he said.

Like his RYBL counterpart, he said the league is limited by the number of facilities at its disposal.

“If we had more facilities, we could have taken more players. In fact, we were fortunate that some school field times became available to us that we did not expect.

Facilities are “a major issue” across Toronto, he said, “as associations try to use whatever is available with

almost nothing new on the horizon.

“Another help would be more lighted fields, but we don’t see this as a likelihood.”

For the North York Baseball Association, the Jays influence may have simply hastened the time it took to fill up it’s already coveted spaces.

“I believe the Blue Jays success in 2015 has had an impact on our registration, although we normally sell out by this time,” said NYBA President Stephen Davis.

“This year, however, we opened registration on Jan. 15 and most of the divisions were full in early February, particularly the younger ages.

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A construction accident this week in Forest Hill could have repercussions for the completion of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. The light rail project is delayed to 2021. Now, there’s a possibility Monday’s collapse of a front-facing wall belonging to the former House of Chan restaurant, where a secondary entrance is under construction for an LRT station at Bathurst Street and Eglinton Avenue West, could mean even further delays.

The incident could result in a workplace investigation by the Ministry of Labour, requiring a suspension of work at the site. However long the investigation takes could determine how much longer Toronto has to wait for its very first LRT line. street BIKE LANEs IN WORKS wBLOOR

Bloor Street could have bike lanes by late summer.

The city’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee (PWIC) is expected to approve a pilot project to establish lanes from Shaw Street to

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It’s not yet clear what form the lanes will resemble. City staff has suggested a range of options for the $500,000 project, from bollards to simple painted lanes. If the PWIC committee approves the plan at its meeting April 25, city staff would likely report back on the lanes’ effectiveness in the latter half of 2017.

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Her fans call her Queen, and now Ashley Graham may have another handle to answer by: straphanger.

Last week, photos and video were posted of the American model and activist cavorting on board a TTC subway train in nothing but lingerie. The photo shoot was a promotion for Graham’s new collection for Canadian plus-size retailer Addition

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In addition to becoming the first ever “my-sized” model to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s annual Swimsuit issue, Graham has legions of fans for her advocacy work for positive body image.

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It will likely be another charged atmosphere next week when Metrolinx hosts a public meeting for the Davenport Diamond train bridge.

The provincial planning agency is completing an Environmental Assessment as part of final approvals for the project. Metrolinx hopes to eliminate the Davenport Diamond rail crossing to improve GO train traffic by building the bridge, but resident groups have voiced strong opposition.

The meeting is April 27 at St. Sebastian Elementary School, 717 Brock Ave., from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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Readership of weekly community newspapers in Ontario is very strong, according to the Community Newspaper Readership Report released by BrandSpark International.

The report, conducted in partnership with Metroland Media, found that 73 per cent of Ontarians surveyed have read at least one of the last four issues of their Metroland Media community newspaper.

In Toronto, Metroland Media publishes nine community newspapers – The Beach Mirror, The Bloor West Villager, The City Centre Mirror, The East York Mirror, The Etobicoke Guardian, The North York Mirror, The Parkdale-Liberty Villager, The Scarborough Mirror and The York Guardian.

Most notably, just under nine in 10 (87 per cent) younger adults surveyed between the ages of 18‐35 are reading their community newspaper as much or more often this year than last year. That number jumps to 92 per cent for all adults surveyed.

“I think it’s fair to say that we were surprised at the strength of community newspapers in light of how print in general is perceived,” said Mark Baltazar, vice-president and partner at BrandSpark International. “These findings reinforce how much local information matters to Ontarians. Community newspapers are playing a major role in the lives of the people we studied, keeping them connected to what’s going on in their own backyards.”

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Mortgages/Loans

Flooring & Carpeting

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Appliance Repairs/ Installation

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Concrete & Paving

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Shows & Bazaars

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Flooring & Carpeting

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Work

PET SERVICES

Masonry & Concrete

Spring Fling Craft and Foodie Fair at Malvern Collegiate Institute Saturday, April 30th 9:30 A.M. - 2:30 P.M. 55 Malvern Avenue In the Beach School Cafeteria 65 craft and tantalizing edibles vendors.

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