Sheppard West

The past 24h have not been particularly auspicious for our neighbourhood, our very own 32 Division investigating a fall off a 6th floor and a shooting in a park.

Shots were fired and a kid forced another kid using a replica gun.

Easements and rights of way are European traditions, but Toronto tends to limit pathways through private property.

Ever since the #amalgamation, #Toronto has its own culture clash, pitting suburbanites vs downtown core hipsters on issues such as social housing and public transportation. It is therefore useful to see how this culture clash plays South of the border.

The major news of the week is the closing of a housing project at Jane and Finch.

CTV's W Five has made a documentary about the Toronto Housing Corporation, widely known as Canada's worst landlord. The documentary can be viewed on their website.

Toronto Fire crews battled two large fires Saturday morning — one at a North York highrise and the other at two Christie Pits homes.

Although crime happens in many areas of Toronto (for instance, a string of robberies prompted a police warning in the East end just days ago), here we report on happenings in our area.

A boy fell from the eighth floor while at a party and is currently in hospital on July 2, shortly before 7pm.

Toronto Community Housing Corp. alleges two former executives oversaw the filing of more than $1 million in fabricated costs in connection with reconstruction work after a fire at 200 Wellesley St. E. That’s according to statements of defence filed by the city-owned social housing agency Monday in Superior Court, in response to lawsuits launched by Lou Canton and Roman Mesec alleging they were wrongfully dismissed. TCHC assigned the pair to work at its for-profit subsidiary, Housing Services Inc., in 2007. In 2010, they had responsibility for overseeing HSI’s role in the reconstruction of the TCHC apartment building at 200 Wellesley after a fire displaced many of its 1,200 residents for weeks. .

The Toronto Star, under the signature of Laurie Monsebraaten, social justice reporter , publishes a longer article on the needs of this neighbourhood as well as interviews with a number of citizens.

Tim Rose is a guy you really don’t want to face off with in a “most unusual place you ever had sex” competition. You may have done it in your boss’s office—heck, even the prime minister’s office—but Rose’s answer will always be better: It’s his electric wheelchair. To the uninitiated, a wired wheelchair exists simply for mobility’s sake—it’s necessary and life-changing, obviously, but possesses all the glamour and excitement of a toaster.

Social Housing, otherwise known as subsidized housing or TCHC projects is a subject fraught with controversy. Conversely, the news of “upgrading” such apartments at Jane and Finch will be met with various degrees of approval in our community.

The owner of a highrise apartment building near Jane and Finch has pleaded guilty to several fire code offences and has been fined $71,000 after a woman died in a blaze at the building in April 2015.

Having represented our neighbourhood at the OMB, we continue to monitor developments on the urban planning front..

The pressure to increase property taxes seems to be increasing in Toronto. That outcome is strongly resented by most members of our community.

Planning developments in Toronto at City Age (and the brothers who ignored the planning notices), as well as what Vancouver is doing about its unmoving vacancy rate and how and what the minimum wage does in helping the poor.