You will also start receiving the Star's free morning newsletter These incidents were reported by police in the past week and reportedly occurred in the past two weeks There were five residential break and enters reported in the district from Feb Toronto Police Service received 24 reports of a break-in at a home between Feb including five in the district of North York In total 235 residential break and enters have been reported in the City of Toronto since Jan 1 – down 83.2 per cent compared to the same period in 2024 A break-in was reported at an apartment near Hopperton Drive and Woodsworth Road on Friday There have been four residential break and enters reported in Bayview Village in 2025 A break-in was reported at a house near Argonne Crescent and Oakhurst Drive on Friday There have been three residential break and enters reported in Bayview Woods-Steeles in 2025 A break-in was reported at a house near Avenue Road and St There have been seven residential break and enters reported in Bedford Park-Nortown in 2025 A break-in was reported at an apartment near Flemington Road and Replin Road on Friday There have been two residential break and enters reported in Englemount-Lawrence in 2025 A break-in was reported at a house near Magpie Crescent and Riderwood Drive on Tuesday There have been eight residential break and enters reported in St Find out where residential break and enters were reported in East York, Etobicoke, Old Toronto, Scarborough and York This story was automatically generated using open data collected and maintained by Toronto Police Service. The incidents were reported by police in the past week and reportedly occurred in the past two weeks, but recent crime data is preliminary and subject to change upon further police investigation The locations have been offset to the nearest intersection and no personal information has been included for privacy reasons Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Invalid password or account does not exist Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account Colliers notes that the site could be redeveloped to support a six-storey residential mid-rise building The lands are "ideally suited for residential redevelopment," and "the Property benefits from excellent public transportation access," says the listing Join the thousands of Torontonians who’ve signed up for our free newsletter and get award-winning local journalism delivered to your inbox liveable city begins in inner suburbs like this it’s the largest social housing redevelopment in Toronto—a hundred acres on either side of Allen Road just south of the Yorkdale Shopping Centre The sweeping changes underway in Lawrence Heights promise to transform the once exclusively rent-geared-to-income neighbourhood into a mixed-use most Torontonians know little about this neighbourhood save the occasional headline about gun violence that has come to shape Lawrence Heights’ dominant narrative Lawrence Heights has been the forgotten and often misunderstood child of Toronto’s housing projects low-density development was tucked away at the fringes of suburbia and fenced in from the surrounding subdivisions You will not read about Lawrence Heights in Toronto’s history books nor find it in the city’s official list of 140 neighbourhoods the community was split in half when Allen Road was constructed right through its centre Its eastern half is officially part of the neighbourhood of Englemount-Lawrence which includes the more affluent areas surrounding Glencairn subway station The other half is absorbed into the larger community of Yorkdale-Glen Park to the west precise data about Lawrence Heights isn’t readily available we invite you to join us on a long-overdue visit to Lawrence Heights We go beyond the media’s dominant narratives to explore its quirks and oral histories and to examine its complicated past and hopeful future the stories reveal a dynamic and rapidly changing neighbourhood there’s cautious optimism that Lawrence Heights might finally break free from the cycles of isolation and stigmatization And for a city in search of answers for how to turn its inner suburbs into healthy what happens in this neighbourhood is of the utmost importance liveable city begins in places like Lawrence Heights Tai Huynh is the founding editor-in-chief and publisher of The Local. He writes, occasionally, about urban health and inequality. Follow @taimhuynh.bsky.social, email tai@thelocal.to award-winning journalism thanks to the generous support of readers you're contributing to a new kind of journalism—in-depth from corners of Toronto too often overlooked Lawrence Heights was built with a fence separating it from its more affluent neighbours it's the site of Toronto's largest redevelopment but it remains a neighbourhood misunderstood by the rest of the city Stories from a community in the midst of a transformation food banks are scrambling to keep Toronto fed A revitalization project promises to transform this public housing community into a mixed-income neighbourhood But meeting the needs of existing residents while appealing to affluent newcomers is a difficult balance Rodrigo Moreno photographed neighbourhood kids for a school project tracing the changing lives of people in a corner of the city few find worthy of documenting Pathways to Education's unconventional approach to community health starts with helping kids finish high school Defeating the Spadina Expressway is a celebrated story of urban resistance Less told is the story of the neighbourhood that has lived with a freeway running through its heart for the last fifty years So what makes Toronto Basketball Academy so good Join the thousands of Torontonians who've signed up for our free newsletter and get award-winning local journalism delivered to your inbox non-profit journalism from corners of Toronto too often overlooked Thirteen more Toronto neighbourhoods will be seeing community officers in their areas as the city’s police service expands its Neighbourhood Community Officer program (NCO) to cover a total of 51 localities The program was launched in 2013 with NCOs deployed in all 16 Toronto police divisions Chief of Police James Ramer and Mayor John Tory made the announcement on Saturday at a community open house at 31 Division the Toronto Police Service (TPS) said expanding the program was a priority in its 2022 budget The additional neighbourhoods were identified through “comprehensive analyses including of crime and demographics,” and will have 52 new NCOs they said NCOs are embedded in a particular neighbourhood for a minimum of four years and TPS says they co-develop solutions with the community and mobilize resources to “reduce crime fear of crime and anti-social behaviour.” The following 13 neighbourhoods will be added to the existing 38 that are currently included in the program: Warmer temperatures but showers are expected on-and-off for the next few days Meteorologist Natasha Ramsahai has your seven-day forecast Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls on Prime Minister Mark Carney to prioritize a list of projects including the proposed Highway 401 tunnel a mentally ill man who was killed in an Ontario prison is calling out the provincial government over the lack of correctional reform Monday is calling for rain and thunderstorms Stella Acquisto has the long-range forecast listen to NewsRadio Toronto live anytime and get up-to-the-minute breaking-news alerts weather and video from CityNews Toronto anywhere you are – across all Android and iOS devices Spring Toronto Mayor John Tory and Toronto Police Service (TPS) Chief James Ramer held a public session at North York’s 31 Division to share details on the expansion of the city’s Neighbourhood Community Officer Program (NCOP) for the first time The mayor and police are pushing the expanded NCOP as a model of police reform and renewed community commitment What it really represents is an expansion of layered policing—the intensification and extension of police powers throughout communities through embedded relationships (in business and community organizations) that allow for greater surveillance and social control As I have discussed previously expanding layered policing has proven a popular go-to for police forces looking to expand funding in the wake of growing movements for abolition and police defunding following the police execution of George Floyd in 2020 It provides police a cover of reform and public relations and criminalization—making policing even more invasive It provides a base for police to spread their tentacles throughout the community in relations with non-police groups (which now become adjuncts of police) it gives police access to new avenues of funding: money that should be earmarked for health care youth sports or education is instead going to layered policing projects in each of these activities Toronto’s Neighbourhood Community Officer Program was initiated in 2013 It was revised to advance layered policing goals in 2019 based on police requested studies at Humber Polytechnic in 2019 The June 2022 expansion will see 208 NCOP officers deployed in 51 of Toronto’s 158 identified neighborhoods This broadened program adds an additional 13 neighborhoods and at least 52 more officers on foot The new neighborhoods include Rockcliffe-Smyth (12 Division) Clanton Park and Englemount-Lawrence (32 Division) Eglinton East and Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn (43 Division) and Danforth and Taylor-Massey (55 Division) That this is a targeted policing program is made clear by the TPS announcement that it determined which neighborhoods to expand into through analyses “of crime and demographics.” The TPS have not disclosed what those demographic factors are or what “crime” measures motivated their decision-making The TPS also outlined some of the activities they will undertake to “foster relationships with individuals and groups in the community.” These include silly copaganda events like “coffee with a cop” spectacles where they get coffee shops to give out free coffee and snacks while cops mingle with customers police presence at local events like open houses of course regular meetings with business owners Constable Niran Jeyanesan, an NCO in Downsview-Roding-CFB gives examples of some of the quarters with whom police will take their lead—social service agencies and apartment management teams. In his words: “We’re now helping empower our community partners to do their work.” The work of policing But the real effects of broken windows-based policing have not been reduced crime or improved public safety. They have always been racial and class profiling, criminalization, and the expansion of carceral systems. The result has been a clearing ground for gentrification and property development in poor communities—dispossessing and displacing longtime residents Research shows that community policing calls are made up largely of “social disorder” issues Much of what public crime panics focus on is not crime but the survival strategies of oppressed and exploited people Often it is simply a stand in for things that business and property owners and developers do not want to have to see—discarded needles Rather than fund waste disposal and pick up or public bathrooms let alone housing—the propertied entrepreneurs push policing Community policing might assuage their fears but it will only make things worse for people already experiencing the greatest social deprivations Indeed, the TPS, in their statements on the NCOP program are explicit about this, asserting: “They are embedded in one neighbourhood for at least four years to actively co-develop solutions and mobilize Toronto Police resources in order to reduce crime fear of crime and anti-social behavior” (emphasis mine) More intrusive targeting of less harmful or even harmless “anti-social” or disorderly activities has the effect of criminalizing people without addressing the larger social harms that might underly such behavior—whether poverty or simply the pain of trying to survive under capitalism notions of anti-social behavior can be constructed in myriad ways and often reflect merely behaviors that some economic or political powerholders with privileged access to police simply do not like (from loitering There is a cynically circular logic to layered policing which benefits police in terms of public relations Layered policing expands access to communities and their residents and increases street checks These policing “successes” come in handy at budget time when police can show their “results” to secure more funding and resources claiming how much they have been able to accomplish in “catching the criminals” and contributing to “public safety.” This allows for more of the same As scholar-activists Alyssa Aguilera and Alex Vital note “Community policing tends to turn all neighborhood problems into police problems the range of community problems extends far beyond serious crime Why should the police necessarily be the sole or even lead agency in developing strategies to address community concerns about disorder and public safety?” Yet community policing programs and their deceptive and asocial “outcomes-based” analytics measures give them a privileged position within local government budgeting debates What this will really mean is reduced safety for the most oppressed and exploited community members All of these policing practices disproportionately target Black and Indigenous people Increased contacts with police also mean opportunities to wield their infamous “discretion” which reinforces harms to poor and racialized people The social factors of inequality and injustice behind police targeting will be erased of course in police reports to council which will simply read “crime reduction.” Against the repression and violence of community policing we need real community organizing for care and wellness it means community mobilization to defend residents and workers who are targeted by layered policing: community defense of unhoused neighbors organizing of harm reduction and community care spaces It can mean community counter-policing and observing and documenting police interactions It also means continued calls for the defunding of police and the cancelling of community policing projects and resources Some lower-level actions, for those for whom it s safe to do so, can involve disrupting copaganda community policing events and mobilizing against the businesses that host them. In Surrey, our abolitionist group Anti-Police Power Surrey disrupted a coffee with the cops event and the RCMP have not held one here since TorontoNewsMore police officers on foot coming to neighbourhoods across TorontoBy Joanna LavoieOpens in new windowPublished: June 11, 2022 at 9:22AM EDT Twitter feed ©2025 BellMedia All Rights Reserved A Toronto park that has long served as not just a much-needed outdoor public space but also a well-known shortcut to a TTC subway station has now been fenced off for more than 1.5 years for construction despite locals seeing little-to-no progress on the site for nearly as long Those who live in Englemount-Lawrence have long been trying to draw attention to the failed Baycrest Park Improvement project which appeared to be delayed indefinitely in fall 2023 only a few months after commencing that April The City told blogTO more than 14 months into the work last June that there had been a major dispute with the contractors tasked with revamping the park which was only the latest in a series of roadblocks The first worrying update issued in October 2023 stated that "the permit approval process identified significant infrastructure changes required to address storm water management in the park construction of the ramp continues to be delayed due to Toronto Hydro assets located near the proposed ramp site." "The City is working with the contractor and Toronto Hydro to address these issues and resume construction as soon as possible," staff wrote at the time The disagreement that followed seemed to be the nail in the coffin for work that was already delayed by many months And the lack of communication from the City as well as the continued closure of the property even while no remediation was taking place They shouldn't touch this park in the first They just ruined it and now people can't use this passage as short cut to Yorkdale stn and mall It's been too long years to complete this damn park Community members have continued to reach out to blogTO and post on social media about the dead-in-the-water facelift of their local green space in December saying that between summer and the end of 2024 One resident who had only recently moved to the pocket said they were quickly learning a lot about the "chaotic" state of the park writing that their expectations sadly remain low due to the multiple timeline extensions and delays of other key infrastructure projects in the City They worry that another summer (or even more) will be taken from the community especially seeing as "the park looks like nothing has been done." "My understanding is when they closed off the park and it was supposed to go through the following summer So it was supposed to be complete in Summer 2024," said another neighbour who spoke with blogTO on the subject last week "I hadn't complained or expressed frustration until it was very clear that the deadline was going to pass As far as I've seen when I walk in the area they don't even have construction [going on] there anymore." Her concern is not just the pause in construction but the fact that the public remains barred from using the space even though things are "in almost the same shape" as of December She also wonders if certain areas of the city get priority over others as this debacle has been drawn out so long while similar projects in other parts of the city have started and wrapped up in less time "They've not really done anything then you either commit to redoing it within a period of time "It could have easily been fixed up because it's an important thoroughfare to the subway I don't think that there would be much work to lay down a strip of asphalt so people could walk through it again." a City spokesperson told blogTO that while the contractor stopped work amid the seemingly irreconcilable differences with the City there are plans to retender the contract this month To "minimize disruptions," two smaller contracts within the park have been issued for field lighting installation — which will allow the ball diamond to be operational by spring 2025 — and a ramp for transitgoers to use to better access Yorkdale Station "The remaining work will be retendered in January 2025 with construction expected to begin in spring 2025 Further updates will be provided in spring 2025," they added The project page on the City's website has also been updated to reflect this stating that the community will be able to "enjoy the park soon" thanks to these two interim contracts This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page 2014This article was published more than 11 years ago A new measure is being used to rank Toronto's neighbourhoods – the "neighbourhood equity score" which combines ratings for economic opportunity participation in decision-making and physical surroundings change the way Toronto's 140 neighbourhoods are evaluated by city staff when they decide where to direct services The new rankings are likely to set off a lively debate about the city's role in providing social services and what areas of the city are most deserving of extra funding and attention – all against the backdrop of the fall civic election The new measures were developed in conjunction with researchers at St Michael's Hospital's Centre for Research on Inner City Health and are adapted from work done by the World Health Organization Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. 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