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Bike Share rack at the Beaches
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Beaches-Leslieville Daily Updates: July–August 2020

August 31, 2020March 8, 2021 Streeter staff Bike Share, building collapse, cannabis, CNE, condominiums, cooling centres, COVID-19, daycare, electric vehicles, fire, gas leak, Hobo, housing prices, map, medication, murals, murder, noise, ParksPlayTO, permit parking, rescue, sexual assault, theft, Toronto Police

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in Beaches-Leslieville neighbourhoods.

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Demolition continues on site of collapse

April 24, 2016March 28, 2017 Rodger Burnside building collapse, House Of Chan, Metrolinx, Ministry of Labour

Demolition work has continued on the site of the future Forest Hill Crosstown Station where a building collapsed on Monday, sending seven people to hospital.

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Collapsed building was on site of future LRT station

April 19, 2016March 28, 2017 Rodger Burnside building collapse, House Of Chan, Metrolinx, Ministry of Labour

The building at 876 Eglinton Ave. W. was meant to come down to make way for the Forest Hill Crosstown Station — but not like this.

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Building collapse sends several to hospital

April 18, 2016March 28, 2017 Rodger Burnside building collapse, Toronto Police

Several people were sent to hospital with unknown injuries after the building on this site collapsed on Monday afternoon.

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Site of Bedford Park house collapse filled in

March 19, 2015March 11, 2021 Shawn Star building collapse, Ryan Pearce

A little more than six months after a Bedford Park house collapsed killing a 19-year-old construction worker in the basement, the site has been filled in.

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Elderly neighbour of collapsed house staying in trailer

September 25, 2014March 11, 2021 Shawn Star building collapse, fatality, fire

Two weeks after a house under renovations collapsed on Brookdale Avenue in North Toronto killing a construction worker, a next-door neighbour is still displaced — living in a trailer behind his home.

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Neighbours shocked by fatal collapse

September 10, 2014March 11, 2021 Shawn Star building collapse, fatality, fire

The house at 245 Brookdale Ave. stood as an example of a typical North Toronto home. The two-storey, brown brick structure sat nestled on a quiet street, facing a school.

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That was then.

Empringham Hotel 1903
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From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020May 5, 2021 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danfoirth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

Queen and Waverley 1903
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan
Beltline bridge over Yonge Street ion 1915
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When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan
Yonge-Eglinton southeast
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Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

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