Tag Archives: downtown

At first, Chantal Jordaan thought the sounds coming from next door must have been rats. Sounds can travel easily through the walls of the attached homes on historic Gower Street in downtown St. John’s. Those sounds came into sharp focus late last year when, Jordaan said, she heard a cough. …

A downtown Oshawa property manager says she risks losing her family business, located opposite a non-profit agency that helps people who are homeless, amid ongoing issues on her property — including drug use, vandalism and public urination.  Lord Simcoe Place on Simcoe Street S. has been in Cindy Malachowski’s family …

Private security guards hired to patrol the streets in Smithers; Williams Lake nearly declaring a state of local emergency due to public disorder; and in Nanaimo, an iron fence proposed to separate city hall from the “congregations” of people around it. These are just some of the ways that communities across British …

A 12-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man have been arrested with connection to a series of violent robberies and an unprovoked attack that resulted in the death of a man in downtown Toronto late last month.  Toronto police said the 62-year-old male victim was sleeping on a bench in the Queen …

Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a teenager suspected in the fatal shooting of Belinda Sarkodie in Hamilton’s downtown core. In a news release on Sunday evening, Hamilton said they’re looking for Mackale Lavoie, 17. The warrant for his arrest was issued under a second-degree murder charge and two counts …

The streets of Toronto were filled with music, colour and rainbows as thousands of people took part in the annual Pride parade on Sunday. The parade kicked off at 2 p.m., with more than 25,000 marchers making their way from the Rosedale neighbourhood through the downtown core to Nathan Phillips Square. Toronto’s …

Calgary officials are trying to make the city feel safer by testing the idea of small, daytime homeless shelters in the suburbs. For Kim Richards, that approach was exactly what she needed. The former small-business owner says she was stuck deep in grief and drug addiction, drawn into a negative …

A bear has been tranquilized after it was spotted near downtown Regina Monday morning. The cinnamon-coloured black bear was in a tree at Victoria Avenue and Montreal Street, near Thomson Community School. Police officers, firefighters and conservation officers were at the scene. After the bear was tranquilized, it was loaded into …

Montreal police are carrying out an operation to dismantle sections of a homeless encampment on Notre-Dame Street East near the city’s downtown core. Last month, Quebec’s Transport Ministry issued eviction notices to the people who had been living in tents near Morgan Park in the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough. The Quebec government owns that …

Ontario’s largest school board is under fire after students at several schools were taken on a field trip where they appear to have ended up taking part in a protest held in downtown Toronto. Students at a number of Toronto District School Board schools were given permission to head to …