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North Toronto Daily Updates

October 18, 2019October 18, 2019 Streeter staff 0 Comment Bayview Avenue, Blythwood Road, Eglinton Avenue, gunfire, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Royal Ontario Museum, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto Police, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Transit Commission, Yonge Lawrence artwalk, Yonge Lawrence Village BIA, Yonge Street

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in North Toronto neighbourhoods.

NEWS

Arrest after fraudulent home repairs alleged

October 8, 2019October 16, 2019 Jay Garak 0 Comment Bayview Avenue, Blythwood Road, fraud, Toronto Police

A man suspected of targeting seniors to offer fraudulent home repairs in the North Toronto area has been arrested, police report.

Column VIEWS

From growing up on a Depression dairy farm to playing for the TSO

September 11, 2019October 16, 2019 Brian Baker Dorothy White, Flautist, Harpist, Toronto Symphony Orchestra

I learned my neighbour Dorothy White, 91, had been second harpist for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra — having grown up in Springfield, Missouri.

*FEATURED NEWS

Murder rate down from last year’s record — so far

July 27, 2019August 20, 2019 Sean Leca handgun, homicide, Mark Saunders, murder, Shelley Carroll, Toronto Police

After a record-breaking year for homicides, the murder rate in 2019 is shaping up to be much lower — coming closer to the levels of earlier years.

DAILY UPDATES

North Toronto Daily Updates

July 24, 2019August 1, 2019 Streeter staff assault, Avenue Road, Bathurst Street, Beth Sholom Synagogue, Canada Day, Canadian Automobile Association, Columbus Centre, Dufferin Street, Eglinton Avenue West, Flemington Road, Jewish Music Week, Jill Andrew, John Tory, Kathleen Wynne, Lawrence Avenue West, Mike Colle, Moore Park Ravine, North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, Rob Oliphant, robbery, Sonshine and Broccoli, St. Clair Avenue West, St. Monica's Catholic School, Toronto Police, Toronto-St. Paul's

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in North Toronto neighbourhoods.

DAILY UPDATES

North Toronto Daily Updates: June-July 2019

July 1, 2019October 18, 2019 Streeter staff assault, Avenue Road, Bathurst Street, Beth Sholom Synagogue, Canada Day, Canadian Automobile Association, Columbus Centre, Dufferin Street, Eglinton Avenue West, Flemington Road, Jewish Music Week, Jill Andrew, John Tory, Kathleen Wynne, Lawrence Avenue West, Mike Colle, Moore Park Ravine, North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, Rob Oliphant, robbery, Sonshine and Broccoli, St. Clair Avenue West, St. Monica's Catholic School, Toronto Police, Toronto-St. Paul's

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in North Toronto neighbourhoods.

*FEATURED NEWS

Midtown’s naked jogger may be back, police say

June 6, 2019June 7, 2019 Jay Garak Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens Park, David A. Balfour Park, indecent act, indecent exposure, Moore Avenue, Moore Park Ravine, Mt. Pleasant Road, Sherwood Park, Toronto Police, Yonge Street

A naked man approaching women in midtown parks in May has been identified as the man who was reported jogging naked in two incidents in 2017 and 2018.

Community Events THINGS TO DO

June 17: Public consultation on city council

June 3, 2019June 16, 2019 Streeter staff City Council, Eglinton Avenue West, North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, public consultation

A meeting is being held in North Toronto on June 17, a public session the city is holding to seek residents’ ideas about decision making in Toronto

*FEATURED VIEWS

Eglinton East ranked worst road in Ontario: CAA poll

May 31, 2019June 1, 2019 Rodger Burnside Bathurst Street, Canadian Automobile Association, Dufferin Street, Eglinton Avenue East, Eglinton Avenue West, Eglinton Crosstown LRT

It’s official. Eglinton Avenue East, site of construction for the Eglinton Crosstown light-rail line, is now the most hated street in Ontario.

Community Events THINGS TO DO

May 29: Cycle Don Valley Midtown club meets

May 15, 2019June 13, 2019 Streeter staff Cycle Don Valley Midtown, Eglinton Avenue East

The next meeting of the Cycle Don Valley Midtown club for Wards 15 and 16 is on May 29 at 7 p.m.

*FEATURED THEN & NOW

When building transit was simpler at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton

May 9, 2019May 9, 2019 Rodger Burnside Eglinton Avenue East, Eglinton Crosstown, Mt. Pleasant Road, streetcar

When the Mt. Pleasant Road Loop was being built nearly 94 years ago, the work didn’t cause massive traffic jams as the building of the Eglinton Crosstown line does now.