A 21-year-old man has been identified as the victim of a fatal shooting in the Humbermede area Toronto police say they responded to reports of a shooting near Sheppard Avenue West and Weston Road on August 27 was shot inside a business and rushed to a hospital with critical injuries The case is now being treated as a homicide Investigators are asking anyone with information to contact police A Canadian man arrested on vacation has been proven innocent Melissa Nakhavoly with why he is still being held in the Dominican Republic 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 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 A man is fighting for his life in hospital and another person was injured in an early-morning shooting in North York Toronto Police Service (TPS) officers were notified of a shooting just after midnight in the Sheppard Avenue West and Rivalda Road area in Humbermede An adult male was rushed to a trauma centre in critical condition A second male victim was assessed at the scene with minor injuries There is no suspect information at this time SHOOTING:Sheppard Ave W & Abraham Welsh Rd12:08 am– reports of gunshots heard– police o/s– man located w/ gunshot wound, transported to hospital w/life threatening injuries– 2nd victim w/minor injuries assessed o/s– no suspect info– ongoing investigation#GO1872807^sc A Canadian man arrested on vacation has been proven innocent. Melissa Nakhavoly with why he is still being held in the Dominican Republic. 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. The family of Soleiman Faqiri, a mentally ill man who was killed in an Ontario prison, is calling out the provincial government over the lack of correctional reform Now New and Improved! Watch CityNews, listen to NewsRadio Toronto live anytime and get up-to-the-minute breaking-news alerts, traffic, weather and video from CityNews Toronto anywhere you are – across all Android and iOS devices. Emergency crews responded to a 2-alarm commercial fire in North York on Sunday. Toronto police say they received a call just before 11:30 a.m. about a fire at a laundromat in the city’s Humbermede neighbourhood, near Finch Avenue West and Weston Road. No injuries were reported, but authorities say the smoke spread to neighbouring units in the plaza. Toronto Fire Services says everyone evacuated before firefighters arrived at the scene and that majority of the fire has been knocked down. Toronto police are on the hunt for three suspects who are wanted in connection with a fatal shooting that killed a 21-year-old university student. Officers say a vehicle with three people inside entered a plaza near Sheppard Avenue West and Weston Road on August 27, around midnight. “The suspect driver remained in the driver’s seat as two shooters exited the vehicle and fired numerous rounds indiscriminately in the direction of the parking lot,” said Detective Sergeant Brandon Price of the Toronto police’s homicide unit.  “Numerous people were in the lot at that time,” he explained. “The plaza goers scrambled to take cover, and several vehicles and businesses were struck by the gunfire.” Price says dozens of people were in the area at the time of the shooting, including 21-year-old Arslan Ahmad of Brampton who was shot in the far east corner of the parking lot.  Ahmad was transported to hospital and treated for his injuries, but ultimately passed away on September 2. Another individual was also injured by the gunfire, but sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Price says the two shooters returned to the waiting vehicle, which was last seen travelling southbound on Weston Road at a high rate of speed. According to investigators, Ahmad was in the area visiting a friend and enjoying the last days of summer. The pair were buying some items from a business in the plaza and got caught up in the gunfire. “This was a cowardly act,” Detective Sergeant Brandon Price told reporters on Saturday. “Many of those businesses were still open and operating, so it was very busy at the time.” The first suspect is described as having a thin build, and was last seen wearing dark pants, dark shoes, a dark hoodie and a face mask. The second suspect is described as having a thin build, slightly taller than the first suspect and was last seen wearing a grey hoodie, dark pants, dark shoes and a face mask. There is no description of the third suspect who remained in the vehicle, but the car is described as a newer model Toyota RAV4 with a white body and a black roof. The car also had black rims, tinted windows, and it was believed to have a personalized license plate. “We would ask citizens to turn their mind back to August 27 in this area, at that time, if they were in this area, and they have camera footage from their vehicles […] to review that and see if there’s any vehicle captured on it and provide that to the police,” Price added. On Saturday, police released surveillance footage of the incident. Two individuals are seen in the video firing handguns for a a few seconds before running out of frame. Toronto Police issued a public alert as they continue to investigate an assault in the Humbermede area Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience Don't have an account? 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A stop at Weston Road on the Finch Avenue West LRT now under construction and to open before a building could be built here will be a couple minutes walk to the north The LRT should mitigate any potential strain on the existing transit networks supplementing the development and providing additional services that further increase the site's appeal.  image from submission to the City of Toronto referred to as Emery Park Condominium by the proponents is sited approximately 5m from the southern facade of the existing church and 3m south of the proposed severance line a by-product of the future condominium application that would subdivide the plot Even though the development extends past the church's eastern principal elevation boundaries were established facing Emery Creek during preliminary designs back in December 2019 with the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority This ensures that the contiguous vegetation and biodiversity to the south and west are preserved The plans prepared by HCA Architecture showcase a 17-storey tower containing 160 residential units the total Gross Floor Area is around 11,460m² resulting in an overall site density of 2.09 FSI (inclusive of the church building) Emery Park Condominium is 36m wide and 40m long on a partially sunken lower ground floor This level provides an additional 48 below-grade parking spaces for the Western Road Pentecostal Church which is accessed via two dedicated ramps to the north leading from the Church's exclusive northern access Vibrant green pigmented pre-cast concrete panels that run the building's entire vertical length clad the structural colonnades and create a partial undercroft on the ground floor This provides covered condominium entrances a parking drop-off zone and ramp access to the resident's parking above and 50 of the scheme's 120 bicycle parking spaces A new 7.2m wide full movement access off Weston Road will serve this level landscaping over the church's existing southern access A narrower five-storey perforated aluminium panel and patterned glass spandrel panel-clad podium protrudes from the principal elevation This breaks up the rectilinear mass and provides adequate turning circles to the 168 above-grade parking spaces within where the podium is capped with a green roof Looking northwest to the proposal at 3350 Weston Road designed by HCA Architecture for iKore Developments 120 two-bedrooms (75%) and 20 three-bedrooms (12.5%) which meets the City of Toronto's requirements for percentages of family-size unit types and percentages of barrier free units an outdoor terrace engulfs the reduced internal building footprint which provides necessary indoor amenity space all four facades are symmetrically balanced through HCA Architecture's use of partially recessed black tinted glass balconies and green pigmented concrete panels These panels help proportionally divide up a series of aluminium framed glass panels perforated aluminium panels and patterned glass spandrel panels UrbanToronto will continue to follow progress on this development you can learn more about it from our Database file you can join in on the conversation in the associated Project Forum thread or leave a comment in the space provided on this page UrbanToronto’s new data research service, UrbanToronto Pro, offers comprehensive information on construction projects in the Greater Toronto Area—from proposal right through to completion stages. In addition, our subscription newsletter, New Development Insider drops in your mailbox daily to help you track projects through the planning process WINNER OF A 2021 CANADIAN ARCHITECT AWARD OF EXCELLENCE There’s a clarity to the architecture of this large-scale recreation centre The building is structured around a linear street which unites a sequence of activity spaces leading fluidly from one function to the other The site planning offers a high degree of attention and planting; paired with the internalized street these design decisions redefine the building’s suburban context which is especially challenging in a building with an aquatic centre that requires continuous energy use to heat the pools The architects also described a convincing community engagement strategy Although community centres are by their nature large consumers of energy and water Western North York Community and Child Care Centre (WNYCC) aims to be a net zero energy building containing Canada’s first net zero energy aquatic facility there’s more: this project’s urban design agenda is just as compelling as its sustainability targets This ‘conduit for community’ is situated between two infrastructurally divided suburban neighbourhoods The WNYCC links them together through the creation of a new linear urban park The community centre will comprise an aquatic hall South of the Humbermede neighbourhood and north of Pelmo-Humberlea the facility has a narrow street address off Starview Lane to the south A large printing plant that formerly occupied the site limited how the residential neighbourhood could be developed around it the plant bequeathed dead-end sidewalks and a faceless perimeter to the WNYCC The original footprint for the 7,250-square-metre program and zoning-mandated parking lot would have taken up the entire site early site configuration analysis and traffic studies combined with a discussion between the City and school board to share the neighbouring high school’s existing driveway and parking lot freed up space for an outdoor multi-sport court and fitness area Each major interior space opens onto a similarly proportioned outdoor room with large sliding doors connecting them and allowing them to be used as one Views through the building to the park reinforce the connectedness of the indoor facilities to the landscape Conventional energy modelling indicated that the most compact envelope would be the most energy efficient—but instead the design team successfully made a case for a triple-bottom-line approach arguing that the social benefits of high-quality outdoor public spaces and more permeable surfaces for storm-water management outweighed the penalty of energy loss This project is the first Toronto Parks Forestry and Recreation facility mandated to meet the newest version of the Toronto Green Standard which stipulates that 100 percent of the building’s energy use be offset by site-sourced renewable energy and that near-zero greenhouse gas emissions are achieved A building envelope with a maximum air leakage rate 50 percent below the National Energy Code and an extensive site- and building-integrated photovoltaic system are but a few of the project’s interlinked sustainability strategies Early site investigations revealed that a buried river valley and aquifer run under the site with geothermal heat exchange capacity to handle the building’s peak heating and cooling loads thereby reduc­ing the energy utilization index by 47 percent Feedback collected through an extensive community engagement process resulted in the inclusion of a community ‘living room’—a central gathering space and the main circulation route from which other spaces are accessed Its program includes a community-organized snack counter a gallery wall for display­ing work by a local amateur artist group and a gaming garage that will focus on bringing people of different ages together through play CLIENT City of Toronto Forestry & Recreation; City of Toronto Children Services | ARCHITECT TEAM Partner-in-Charge / Design Partner: Ted Watson (FRAIC); Supporting Partners: Timothy Belanger Andrew Filarski (FRAIC); Project Manager / Project Architect: Jeanne Ng; Design Team: Obinna Ogunedo Zaven Titizian; Landscape Architecture: Hyaeinn Lee Sandra Cook; Public Engagement: Jennifer Galda Lily Watson; Computational Analysis: Claudia Cozzitorto Sarah Hassan; Child Care Design: Tania Bortolotto (FRAIC) Elaine Welsher | Child Care Architecture and Design Bortolotto Design Ltd | LANDSCAPE MJMA Landscape Architecture | STRUCTURAL Blackwell | MECHANICAL/ELECTRICAL Smith+Andersen | SUSTAINABILITY Footprint | CIVIL EMC Group | GEOTECHNICAL Beatty Geothermal Consulting | TRIPLE-BOTTOM-LINE COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS Autocase | AREA 7,460 m2 | BUDGET Withheld | STATUS Contract Documents | ANTICIPATED COMPLETION 2026 THERMAL ENERGY DEMAND INTENSITY (TEDI) 112 kWh/m2/year | GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INTENSITY (GHGI) 0 kg CO2e/m2 | TOTAL ENERGY USE INTENSITY (TEUI) 0 kWh/m2/year  A Resilient Duplex for Fort Severn First Nation Durham Modular Supportive Housing The Butterfly and FBC (First Baptist Church complex) UBC Gateway 07mayAll Day14sepGroundwork Exhibition - Canadian Centre for ArchitectureMontreal, Quebec Groundwork is a three-part film and exhibition series exploring the conceptual development and field research of contemporary architects cultivating alternative modes of engagement with new project sites the CCA will take a critical look at how designers across diverse geographies and contexts engage with their environments in preliminary phases of projects and stages of transformation will be highlighted as revelatory aspects of architectural work that help to deepen our understanding of new critical modes of practice and engagement the project questions how different architects situate themselves in relation to changing natural and disciplinary boundaries The exhibition is on from now until September 14 For more information, click here 13febAll Day11mayElana Herzog - ExhibitionToronto, Ontario This exhibition surveys the 35 year career of Toronto-born Brooklyn-based artist Elana Herzog and is curated by internationally Canadian artist Jessica Stockholder It features a new site-responsive installation made This exhibition surveys the 35 year career of Toronto-born Brooklyn-based artist Elana Herzog and is curated by internationally Canadian artist Jessica Stockholder It features a new site-responsive installation made using wallpaper designed by the artist Part of Herzog’s process is to encrust textiles onto – and into – different surfaces explains “while working in the building trades I became intimately acquainted with the built environment and how it is constructed On a very personal level I learned about how systems interact and are installed in buildings – what’s behind the walls and under the floors.” Her work can be described as a form of domestic archeology often engaging architecture and other more intimate forms of material culture For more information, click here 01mayAll Day30Arthur Erickson: Design in MindVancouver, British Columbia The Arthur Erickson Foundation has announced the world premiere of ArthurErickson: Design in Mind The immersive pop-up exhibition will run from now until May 30 This experience marks the culmination of the AE100 Centennial Celebration a year-long series of events honouring the life and work of architect Arthur Erickson For more information, click here 08mayAll DayTMU Department of Architectural Science Year End Show 2025Toronto, Ontario Toronto Metropolitan University's Department of Architectural Science encourages its students to test boundaries and apply their skill to prevailing issues present within their evolving surroundings Toronto Metropolitan University’s Department of Architectural Science encourages its students to test boundaries The annual Year End Show presents the culmination of the 2024-25 academic term showcasing the impressive and cutting-edge works of our top students in all four years of study and at the graduate level For more information, click here To view this year’s thesis booklet, click here 08mayAll Day14University of Montreal - Cohort 2025Montreal, Quebec The annual exhibition of graduates from the Faculty of Planning at UdeM will soon be back for an extended 2025 edition A full week to admire the innovative projects of future architects For more information, click here 09mayAll Day11housed…[un]housed...[re]housed… 2025 SymposiumToronto, Ontario The housed…[un]housed...[re]housed… symposium will shine its academic light on our affordable housing and unhoused crisis in Toronto Given our recent pressing issues and experiences with affordability issues The housed…[un]housed…[re]housed… symposium will shine its academic light on our affordable housing and unhoused crisis in Toronto the symposium will probe and discuss precedents with a critical and multi-disciplinary lens and expand on the Fair Housing Act discourse which prohibits discrimination and the Ontario Human Rights Commission that housing is a human right For more information, click here 09may7:00 pm10:00 pmPresence roma XLV exhibition - CambridgeCambridge, Ontario The University of Waterloo School of Architecture class of 2025 is proud to reaffirm its  long-standing Presence in Rome with an exhibit of our design projects For more information, click here 13mayAll DayUniversité de Montréal School of Architecture's 60th anniversaryMontreal, Quebec Come and celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Université de Montréal School of Architecture on Tuesday the school is preparing a commemorative catalog and visuals to reminisce on the school’s 60-year history since joining the Université de Montréal To register for the event, click here 14mayAll Day24City Building 2025 - Call for SubmissionsToronto, Ontario This is an exhibition of contemporary works by artists who explore our changing urban environment while looking at local architecture and urban issues Artists interested in participating are being asked to send a image list, current CV /artist statement, and 4 to 6 jpegs to [email protected] Selected artists will pay $40 per selected work The exhibition will be on display from May 14 to 24 For more information, click here 24mayAll Day25Doors Open TorontoToronto, Ontario Doors Open Toronto invites the public to explore the city’s most-loved buildings and sites The event provides rare access to buildings that are not usually The event provides rare access to buildings that are not usually open to the public and free access to sites that would usually charge an admission fee it has attracted more than two million visits to nearly 700 unique locations and remains the largest event of its kind in Canada For more information, click here This article was published more than 4 years ago Edith George wraps her arms around a red oak tree which is approximately 250 to 300 years old What seems like another big oak in photos is so lavish in proportion that it has been known to elicit uncontrollable laughs buckling knees and incredulity among first-time visitors “It’s real – isn’t it?” said one city councillor’s assistant upon seeing the tree up close a few years back One veteran arborist named Stephen Smith was moved to proclaim But the reaction that mattered most came 15 years ago when Edith George a long-time resident in the northwest Toronto neighbourhood of Humbermede was cycling past the bungalow situated beneath the massive oak at 76 Coral Gable Dr and said she saw a woman crying in the driveway When Ms. George stopped to see what was wrong, the woman told her she needed help saving a beloved a tree in her backyard from some cruel neighbours Local kids had been attacking it with rocks and older neighbours saw the 24-metre oak as a threat that needed to be trimmed or felled to prevent property damage or injury I always knew there was a big honkin’ tree back there “She took me to the backyard and I’m telling you George would fight to preserve one of the city’s oldest and biggest trees – a quixotic-seeming quest that concluded successfully in recent weeks when the city made good on commitment to buy the $860,000 property after the community managed to raise half the cost While previous homeowners who have lived under the tree have cherished it this will ensure its protection for generations to come “If the city didn’t go through with the purchase I was going to mortgage my house,” said Ms who is on a first-name basis with the tree having named it Zhelevo after her ancestral village in Macedonia the big tree on Coral Gable Drive is testament to survival hand-saws and bulldozers – she has endured it all to become one of the city’s oldest trees somewhere between 250 and 300 years old and still thriving That would make her a mere sprout during the heyday of the nearby Carrying Place Trail the Indigenous route branching north from Lake Ontario that made the future site of Toronto into a strategic gateway to valuable trade networks The trail ran along the eastern bank of the Cobechenonk Michael and Anne Nicholas purchased the property and fell in love with the backyard tree even though the roots were growing perilously close to the bungalow’s foundation.Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail “The tree’s story can help tell our story,” said Carolyn King former chief of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation which called the area home for thousands of years before settler encroachment and dubious treaties forced them to move 90 kilometres southwest “It’s the story of how the tree stayed and our people left.” King is also the founder of The Moccasin Identifier project that identifies and marks significant Indigenous cultural sites She’s visited the tree on a few occasions and intends to add it to that list as soon as it officially lands in public hands “Our people hunted and fished in the area regularly and travelled in the area,” she said “A tree like that would have been a marker to show the way.” the route’s primary users would change from Mississaugas Wendat and Onondaga travellers to European traders and settlers Michael and Anne Nicholas purchased the property for $14,400 and fell in love with the backyard tree even though the roots were growing perilously close to the bungalow’s foundation Nicholas built trenches and catch basins to convey water to the tree “He did everything possible to save this tree,” said Ms “When he was lying in bed dying of throat cancer and visitors came She was the one in the driveway that day Ms George had a parade of well-known arborists come and assess Zhelevo “It’s a perfectly well-bred specimen,” said Jack Radecki former executive director of the Ontario Urban Forest Council that scaffold started to envelop the bungalow The trunk had grown to a circumference of 16 feet Limbs scraped within inches of the roofline persuading a subsequent owner to put the place up for sale “She contacted me and said the real estate is for sale we need to buy it,” said gardening author and broadcaster Mark Cullen Cullen and his wife Mary decided to help launch a fundraising campaign with a $100,000 donation The money was based on the condition that the public raise the first $430,000 with the city matching With around 1,300 individual donors contributing to the cause It will take on responsibility for demolishing the house and developing a park around the tree “I really hope they dedicate the park to our Indigenous brethren,” said Mr “the people who settled and made this area their home long before Europeans arrived We have an opportunity to say something positive to the Indigenous community.” “It can tell the stories of our people rather than those who came after,” she said “It’s an amazing feeling being there and thinking it was there when our people were there Our Morning Update and Evening Update newsletters are written by Globe editors, giving you a concise summary of the day’s most important headlines. 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