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Officials say a man in his 40s is dead and two others have life-threatening injuries after a three-alarm fire in downtown Toronto. Emergency crews were called to an apartment building on Dundas and Sherbourne streets at around 1 a.m. Tuesday. Toronto Fire Chief Jim Jessop told Global News there was …
Read More »Residents at downtown Winnipeg seniors home fear rent increase with sale to private buyer – Winnipeg
Residents at a not-for-profit downtown Winnipeg seniors housing complex say they’re worried about what’s going to happen if a tentative plan to sell the building to a private out-of-province buyer goes through. Residents at Lions Place learned from a letter slipped under their doors late last week about an agreement …
Read More »Truck driver flees after crashing into downtown Calgary Co-op
Emergency crews are investigating after a transport truck smashed through the brick wall of the Midtown Co-op grocery store in downtown Calgary. A spokesperson for the Calgary Police Service (CPS), said the driver of the truck fled the scene. Carol Henke, a public information officer for the Calgary Fire Department, said crews …
Read More »Downtown Toronto trails other North American cities in pandemic recovery, study says
More than two years after COVID-19 first struck, Toronto hasn’t gotten back to even half its level of pre-pandemic activity, lagging behind many cities in North America, according to a new study. A joint project between the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley called “Death of Downtown?” compared mobile …
Read More »Downtown Calgary office vacancies hit new high – but it’s not all bad news
More than a third of office spaces were vacant in downtown Calgary in the second quarter of this year, which is a record high, according to a new report from commercial realty firm CBRE. It was also the highest vacancy rate in all of Canada, said the firm’s regional managing director …
Read More »Unconditional love: The pets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
It’s known as Vancouver’s poorest postal code, but the city’s Downtown Eastside is a vibrant residential and commercial neighbourhood of more than 20,000 people. It’s also a space where many people live with addiction and homelessness, which carries with it stigma and judgment from others. For some in this position, pets …
Read More »Fire rips through Downtown Eastside Street Church, latest blaze on East Hastings Street
Vancouver firefighters battled a fire at a Downtown Eastside church on the 100 block of East Hastings Street for hours on Wednesday evening. Black smoke billowed from the second floor of the two-storey brick building as firefighters used multiple hoses from a crane and the street to attempt to control the …
Read More »Graffiti artist completes world’s tallest mural in downtown Calgary
It looms on the edge of downtown a stone’s throw from the Calgary Tower, a splash of colour amid aging buildings, railway tracks, parkades and a steady stream of traffic. It’s billed as the world’s tallest mural, painted by one of the globe’s top graffiti artists, and is part of …
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