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FANNIE SUNSHINE fsunshine@insidetoronto.com The Ministry of Labour is investigating two companies following the partial collapse of a Bathurst Street and Eglinton Avenue building and scaffolding Monday, April 18.

Ministry spokesperson Janet Deline said the investigation is focused on Crosslinx Transit Solutions Constructors, a consortium comprised of EllisDon, SNC-Lavalin, Aecon and ACS, and demolition and recycling company Delsan-AIM Environmental Services Inc. The ministry issued three investigation requirements, including a do not disturb order for Crosslinx Transit Solutions Constructors, and document requests for both companies, Deline said.

“The documents could be for training, equipment, maintenance (compliance),” she said, adding she didn’t have specific information relating to the document requests.

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Seven people have been taken to hospital following a partial collapse of a building on Eglinton Avenue West and Bathurst Street Monday afternoon.

three storefronts on Eglinton Avenue’s north side were being demolished to create a secondary entrance to the Eglinton Crosstown Light-Rail line station.

The former House of Chan, Israel’s Judaica and the Halleluia Restaurant were scheduled to

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“What I want to make sure is we learn something from this and make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn told reporters at the site Tuesday.

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Accidents such as this, when we do go back, when we do the >>>METROLINX, page 8

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).

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He did, however, single out two other issues that are limiting membership – “lack of appropriate sized baseball diamonds and lack of volunteer parents in some cases.”

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The priest at San Lorenzo A n g l i c a n C h u rc h n e a r Dufferin Street and Lawrence Avenue, who was born in Ecuador, had been in the South American country since March 28 on a speaking tour, talking with immigrants from Europe who expressed interest in moving to Canada.

Astudillo had just wrapped up a meeting and was writing a letter in his hotel room when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Saturday, April 16 around 7 p.m. ECT, the strongest quake to hit the country in almost 40 years.

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San Lorenzo Anglican Church’s Father Hernan Astudillo was in Manta, Ecuador when an earthquake struck Saturday night and was able to photograph scenes of the disaster.

Canadians whose identities have not been released.

The country was rocked by a 6.2 magnitude tremor Wednesday morning, which struck 25 kilometres off Muisne on the northwest Pacific coast.

“I thought, this is it, it

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A Manta family took Astudillo in for two nights, and Monday morning he made his way to Portoveijo, where he is continuing to offer emotional support, he said, adding he plans to head to the country’s capital, Quito, before returning to Toronto Thursday, April 28.

And in an ironic twist, Astudillo - who has spent years donating dozens of buses and ambulances filled with medical supplies to Central and South American countries following earthquakes in El Salvador in 2001 as part of his Caravan of Hope - finds himself witnessing first-hand the devastating after-effect of earthquakes.

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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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Willowdale Earth Day Cleanup WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge St. CONTACT: www.facebook.com/ events/1700074946911709 COST: Free Clean-up focusing on parks, followed by a workshop.

Earth Day 2016 Featuring Hadwin’s Judgement WHEN: 2 to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Downsview Library, 2793 Keele St. CONTACT: 416-395-5720 COST: Free Sasha Snow’s acclaimed feature Hadwin’s Judgement is a compelling hybrid of drama and documentary that chronicles B.C. logging engineer and survivalist Grant Hadwin’s emotional crusade against clear-cutting.

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Spring Into Action 2016 Annual Walk or Run for Diabetes WHEN: 9 a.m. to noon WHERE: Sunnybrook Park, Leslie and Eglinton Entrance CONTACT: www.events.runningroom.com/ site/?raceId=12924 COST: Ranges from $20 to $100 In support of: I Challenge Diabetes, York University Diabetes Sports Camp and the Canadian Diabetes Association.

Wheels Sale and Henry Farm Tennis Club Opening WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon WHERE: Havenbrook Park, 15 Havenbrook Ave. CONTACT: Thea Haller, 416493-9390, www.henryfarm.ca COST: Free Bring anything with wheels and we will sell it for you for a small fee. No strollers please. And, while you are there, check out the tennis club.

Toronto Jewellery, Gem and Mineral Show WHEN: 4 to 9 p.m., 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Man charged after machete attack outside North York restaurant Sunday A man faces charges after three men were attacked with a machete outside a North York restaurant last Sunday night.

Police said they were called to a local hospital after a man turned up with a stab wound at 11:19 p.m.

“While that person was there, another two showed up with stab wounds as well, and those people were fighting with staff at the hospital,” Const.

Victor Kwong said.

One victim was later transferred to a trauma centre for treatment.

Police believe the stabbings happened in the parking lot of African House, at 2111 Jane St. An 18-year-old man suffered a wound to the stomach, a 42-year-old suffered a hand injury and a 35-yearold received a head injury.

The injuries are not lifethreatening.

Tola Paul, 31, of Toronto is charged with two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of assault with a weapon and one count of weapons dangerous.

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A man faces charges in a high-speed crash last

weekend in North York that claimed three young lives.

The collision happened at Jane Street and Sheppard Avenue at 3:28 a.m. Sunday, April 10.

Police allege a southbound 2003 Acura 3.2 TL with five occupants was travelling at a high speed when it hit a second Acura and then struck a pole, a fence and several trees.

Four people were ejected from the car and one was partially ejected.

A 19-yearold man, a 2 3 - y e a r- o l d m a n and a 21-year-old woman were pronounced dead at the scene.

A 22-year-old Brampton man suffered life-threatening injuries while a 24-year-old man, also from Brampton, received serious injuries.

Prithvi Randhawa, 22, of Brampton has been charged with three counts of criminal negligence causing death, three counts of dangerous operation causing death and one count each of criminal negligence causing bodily harm and dangerous operation causing bodily harm.

Police announced the charges on Friday, April 15.

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“Anybody who did see anything prior to, during or after the collision, we are asking that they contact police as soon as possible, keeping in mind that every little bit helps.

“Even if they think it may be something minor, that information still needs to be made available to us in order for us to ... determine exactly what happened.”

Police are asking anyone with information to call traffic services at 416-808-1900 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477). man charged in ttc sex assault case A man faces charges following a series of sex assaults on board TTC subway trains along the Bloor-Danforth line.

Toronto police allege the victims, four women, were seated and travelling alone when a man sat beside them and then sexually assaulted them.

The alleged incidents happened between October and March.

Stephen Oberhammer, 36, of Toronto is charged with four counts of sexual assault.

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North York Baseball Association has wait list for every division, growing mailing list for 2017 >>>from page 1 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 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.

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North York Blues’ Luis Sanchez-Ma swings at an Etobicoke Rangers’ pitch during Toronto Baseball Association minor peewee action at Bond Park last season. The North York Baseball Association reports its house league, spurred by last season’s success by the Toronto Blue Jays, filled up in less than a month.

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.

“The result is, this year we had to turn away a great number of players (and) have a wait list for every division and a growing mailing list for 2017.”

And as for the Jays, who fell one step short of the world series, they’re off to a modest start, hovering around the .500 mark in a tough division.

Metrolinx fully co-operating with investigation >>>from page 1 report, we find each and every time it was preventable.”

Metrolinx spokesperson Vanessa Barassa said the front wall of 876 Eglinton Ave. W., the former House of Chan, collapsed just before 2:30 p.m. as the building was being prepared for demolition. The wall took the scaffolding with it, and collapsed a covered walkway in front of the building on passing pedestrians.

A male, female, and their seven-month-old baby, along with another male, were taken

to hospital with minor injuries, while two people were treated in a trauma centre for serious but non-life threatening injuries, said Toronto Paramedic Services spokesperson Kim McKinnon.

A third person who suffered minor injuries was also taken to the trauma centre.

“The infant was in a stroller and the stroller was all twisted and bent,” said Toronto Fire Services division commander Bob O’Halloran. “But fortunately the infant is not injured at all so the stroller possibly

saved that baby.”

Metrolinx spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins said site demolition began several weeks ago and the Forest Hill stop is one of 25 stations being built.

All demolition work along the line was temporarily suspended immediately following the collapse, but fully resumed Tuesday.

“When the collapse occurred, due to an abundance of caution, Crosslinx temporarily stopped demolition at the other site to review

plans,” Aikins said. “Safety is always a first priority.”

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In a release sent Tuesday evening, Crosslinx said the

storefront to the east of the collapse would be demolished that night due to structural instability.

“It has been determined that the building located at 870 Eglinton Avenue...is unstable as a result of yesterday’s collapse and will need to be demolished this evening,” the release said, noting the building was slated for demolition as part of the Crosstown construction and the Ministry of Labour has completed its on-site investigation and returned control of the site

to Crosslinx.

In a Facebook post Monday, Metrolinx said the company will fully co-operate with the Ministry of Labour’s investigation.

“As with all serious incidents, there will be a full investigation,” the post said.

“As the investigation into this incident is ongoing, we cannot comment further at this time.

Metrolinx is cooperating fully with the ongoing investigation.”

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The brand new dealership has been open to the public since April 4, but an official grand

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Homicides in Toronto are up 100 per cent from this time last year, and a veteran police investigator believes the end of carding has “definitely contributed” to that.

“Especially in our at-risk neighbourhoods where there’s been a lot of violence, we’re not having the same amount of contact,” said the investigator, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“The community contacts or interactions are probably down 90-plus per cent citywide, and you’ve almost seen that same correlation with the amount of shootings, and homicides have increased as a result as well, so I think they go hand in hand.”

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As of Monday, April 18, “This spike could be there were 26 murders in caused by any number of Toronto this year compared factors. It could be the result to 13 at that point in 2015. of a back and forth situation between gangs where there’s There were also a total of 108 shooting occurrences so an emerging conflict between far this year, a 58.8 per cent two groups and there’s retaliincrease over this time last ation violence.” year. “This is only going to Lee also noted year-toget worse,” the investigator date statistics are hard to warned. interpret.

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One veteran Toronto police suggests murders, such as the one being investigated in the east end earlier this month, will increase now that the practice of carding has been cancelled.

“People worr y that a spike in one month or in a few months means that that ratio will hold for the rest of the year. But what we see in Toronto is that over the last five to 10 years, the homicide rate has been pretty consis-

tent, so these things tend to average out by the end of the year.”

Toronto police spokesman Mark Pugash said there’s no “single explanation” for the spike in homicides.

“I don’t intend this to

sound flippant, but the people who have the best idea why it’s happening are the people who are doing it themselves, so I think it’s unwise to speculate about what might be motivating them.”

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“But you can’t afford to have a broad-scale mockery made of the existing laws. And it’s doubtful to me that the number of people in genuine need of medical marijuana would justify the number of dispensaries – I’m told there are as many as 20 of them in Kensington Market.”

Tory made the comment the same day as federal Health Minister Jane Philpott told the United Nations that Canada will introduce legislation in 2017 to legalize the sale of marijuana.

The announcement came in concert with 4/20, the annual festival for committed pot-smokers Wednesday at

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Mayor John Tory is going to ask the federal government what the city can be doing about medical marijuana clinics, like these in the city’s east end, until the Liberals legalize pot by 2017.

Yonge-Dundas Square.

That morning, Tory said that he’ll be writing to the federal government asking how the city should proceed over the next year, when the legal status of the sale of marijuana will be unclear.

“It’s time to make these inquiries to see, is there something we have to do?”

Tory said. “We can’t just have the wild west and have an indefinite number of these dispensaries.”

Tory was also asked by

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“I think what you have happening here is the horse is following the cart,” he said.

“People are celebrating the fact that the laws are going to be changed, but what you have is a lot of things taking place that are in anticipation of the law actually being changed.”

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