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These incidents were reported by police in the past week and reportedly occurred in the past two weeks
There were three residential break and enters reported in the district from Dec
Toronto Police Service received 24 reports of a break-in at a home between Dec
including three in the district of Etobicoke
In total 1,784 residential break and enters have been reported in the City of Toronto since Jan
1 – down 54.3 per cent compared to the same period in 2023
A break-in was reported at an apartment near Old Mill Road and Old Mill Trail on Friday
There have been 18 residential break and enters reported in Kingsway South in 2024
A break-in was reported at an apartment near Kendleton Drive and Warrendale Court on Wednesday
There have been 14 residential break and enters reported in Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown in 2024
A break-in was reported at a house near Cabernet Circle and Moselle Drive on Tuesday
There have been 19 residential break and enters reported in West Humber-Clairville in 2024
Find out where residential break and enters were reported in East York, North York, 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
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If you head to the Mount Olive – Silverstone – Jamestown community in northwest Toronto
there is no shortage of spots to gather but two community centres off of Kipling Avenue are working to provide vital services and fill potential gaps
Built in 1987, the North Kipling Community Centre became the main municipal facility in this area
its footprint has grown as has the need to expand the diversity of its programming
“We definitely want to make sure that whoever walks through our front door feels welcomed and safe,” Annabella Ferrone
a recreation supervisor with the City of Toronto
told CityNews during a recent tour of the facility
which is located between Finch Avenue West and Steeles Avenue West has many amenities
The activities for all age groups are as varied as the spaces
“We offer programs like hair braiding
all dance programs (as well as) fitness for older adults such as yoga and Pilates,” Ferrone said
In an area dubbed the “Youth Zone,” outreach workers are around to help participants
with many of those who have been through the program going on to work for the city
Building skills and having a free drop-in setting are top priorities for the zone
“The Amp programming teaches the youth how to DJ
types of different music engineering … We also have programs like ‘Chop It Like It’s Hot’ (that) teaches them how to cook
We also have a seed program that teaches them how to basically run their own type of garden,” Ferrone explained
One of the many sports offered out of North Kipling is basketball and the ability to participate in structured and drop-in programs here helped a current NBA star hone his skills
the Toronto Raptors forward who grew up in Mount Olive
still comes by to visit years after taking part in programs as a teenager
“Everybody’s able to go up to him
so that’s very nice,” Ferrone said
After being drafted in 2021 by the Toronto Raptors, Banton recognized the role the North Kipling Community Centre as well as the Rexdale Community Hub played in his life and in his athletic development
“Just being able to take advantage of those community centres to just keep yourself off the street
I feel like that was the blessing for me that I had,” Banton told reporters
“Kids being able to see me … I go to the gyms that they went to all these years and
I know a lot of people and everybody knows it’s like a tight-knit family growing up around (the neighbourhood).”
the executive director of the Rexdale Community Hub
said Banton has also made an impact within its walls
“He’s definitely a community pride and he’s been inspiring so many youth,” she said
Just minutes away from the North Kipling Community Centre
the Hub has been home to more than 30 different community and recreational groups and services dealing with various needs since 2010
Munawar and her team worked in overdrive to help the area during to COVID-19 pandemic to provide much-needed supports
“We are basically focused on seniors and single parent families and we provided them over 70,000 food hampers and hot meals,” she recalled
emphasizing ongoing problems with food insecurity in the community
“This is something that the government should be looking into it because this is a very serious issue in that community
People who were already actually doing precarious employment before the pandemic and then now they have to do more jobs to put food on the table and roof over their head.”
Munawar added getting people online also proved to be a big need
“Many families they were struggling with internet
Many families did not have computers in their homes,” she said
The Rexdale Community Hub also participated in a so-called “pod” project to connect with people who were experiencing social isolation during the pandemic
a neighbourhood engagement coordinator with the Rexdale Community Hub
said there are three biggest issues they consistently deal with today
“The lack of employment opportunities for many of us
housing remains a major limitation for a lot of people
staff at the Hub said they want to keep helping neighbourhood residents fulfill the goals of the community
we’ve had over a million visits,” Munawar said
“This space actually entertains to everyone in the family
so we offer so many programs and they’re all under one roof so it’s not actually people having to travel.”
Malhi added they’ve been working with youth in different ways to increase engagement among younger people
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Break and enters were reported at 13 Etobicoke homes between May 24 and 30
Police reported 13 new residential break and enters in Etobicoke between May 24 and May 30
and the information within may be out of date
Police reported 13 new residential break and enters in Etobicoke between May 24 and May 30. That’s eight more than were reported during the previous week (you can find the latest reports for the city’s other neighbourhoods here)
Toronto’s overall weekly incidents rose by nine to 62
bringing the city’s preliminary total for 2022 to 1,030 — down three per cent compared to the same period last year
One new residential break and enter was reported for Alderwood
It took place at an apartment in the Bellman Avenue and Valermo Drive area on Tuesday
There have been four residential break and enters reported in Alderwood in 2022
One new residential break and enter was reported for Eringate-Centennial-West Deane
It occurred at an apartment near Robinglade Drive and The East Mall on Friday
There have been five residential break and enters reported in Eringate-Centennial-West Deane in 2022
Two new residential break and enters were reported for Etobicoke West Mall
The first took place at an apartment in the Cambrian Road and The West Mall area on Tuesday
The second occurred at an apartment in the Holiday Drive and The West Mall area on Monday
There have been 10 residential break and enters reported in Etobicoke West Mall in 2022
One new residential break and enter was reported for Islington-City Centre West
It took place at a house near Laurel Avenue and Oregon Trail on Friday
There have been 17 residential break and enters reported in Islington-City Centre West in 2022
Four new residential break and enters were reported for Mimico
The first took place at a house in the Royal York Road and Struthers Street area on Thursday
The second occurred at a house near Stanley Avenue and Station Road on Thursday
The third occurred at a house near Symons Street and Wheatfield Road on Friday
The fourth occurred at a house in the Dartmouth Crescent and Royal York Road area on Saturday
There have been 17 residential break and enters reported in Mimico in 2022
One new residential break and enter was reported for Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown
It took place at an apartment in the Jamestown Crescent and John Garland Boulevard area on Tuesday
There have been 10 residential break and enters reported in Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown in 2022
One new residential break and enter was reported for Princess-Rosethorn
It took place at an apartment near Hedges Boulevard and Tromley Drive on Sunday
There have been six residential break and enters reported in Princess-Rosethorn in 2022
One new residential break and enter was reported for Thistletown-Beaumond Heights
It took place at an apartment near Albion Road and Calstock Drive on Monday
There have been two residential break and enters reported in Thistletown-Beaumond Heights in 2022
One new residential break and enter was reported for West Humber-Clairville
It occurred at a house near Kingsplate Crescent and Thoroughbred Crescent on Monday
There have been nine residential break and enters reported in West Humber-Clairville in 2022
Find the latest reports of residential break and enters for Toronto’s other neighbourhoods
Toronto’s northeast and northwest are the city’s hardest-hit area for COVID-19
according to new data released by public health
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the data displays both the total number of cases per neighbourhood and the number of infections per 100,000 people
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the Rouge neighbourhood in the city’s extreme east ranks the highest at 400
followed by Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown with 384
Lambton-Baby Point — a wealthy enclave in the former city of York between the Humber River and Jane St.
Andrew-Winfields — an area bordered north-to-south by the 401 to York Mills Rd
Mayor John Tory said he wasn’t surprised by the results
into the socio-economic characteristics of some of those neighbourhoods
and the kinds of work settings in which people work
the accommodations that they often live in
sometimes many members of a family together,” he said
“It provides more of an opportunity for the virus to spread inside those households than what otherwise might be the case.”
Eileen de Villa said that while knowing which areas of the city are hardest-hit is valuable from a public health point of view
she warned against using the map to stigmatize those living there
“Where a person lives does not necessarily indicate where they picked up COVID-19,” she said
“You are at risk of getting COVID-19 anywhere when you are in close contact with the respiratory droplets of someone who is infected with the virus.”
She also warned against assuming the map indicates parts of the city people should avoid
“Areas with lower rates of COVID-19 cases are not inherently safer from a COVID-19 perspective,” she said
As of Tuesday — the most up-to-date information available at press time — there are 10,525 cases in Toronto
Three-hundred fifty-six patients were in hospital
TEN HARDEST HIT TORONTO NEIGHBOURHOODS(Source: City of Toronto Public Health)
Rouge (400 cases)Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown (384 cases)Milliken (365 cases)West Humber-Clairville (357 cases)Woburn (325 cases)Glenfield-Jane Heights (305 cases)Agincourt North (301 cases)Agincourt South-Malvern West (301 cases)Downsview-Roding-CFB (277 cases)York University Heights (249 cases)
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the Daily Bread Food Banks is bringing local Ontario produce to five lower-income sites in Toronto this summer
and continuing through the end of September
the Daily Bread Food Bank is taking a donations of excess farmer-donated vegetables
fruits and herbs to lower-income areas in the city
The mobile produce market is piloting the program in Scarborough
but has plans to serve 20 neighbourhoods over the next year by delivering 20 per cent more food
Daily Bread Food Bank chief executive officer Neil Hetherington states: “With our network of front-line agencies and food banks across the city
Daily Bread is uniquely positioned to help these 20 neighbourhoods address the immediate needs of their most vulnerable residents by increasing our food shipments to them by 20 per cent.”
Scarborough was initially chosen after the city realized a 30 per cent increase in food bank visits in 2017
produce is being distributed at no cost to the consumer
providing residents of the areas to have unimpeded access to fresh
The neighbourhoods designated as priority by Daily Bread are Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown
The Daily Bread Food Bank has 15 member agencies that serve these areas; each will receive 20 per cent more food delivered to them
including shelf-stable products as well as fresh produce
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As part of Team Toronto’s ongoing efforts to help to remove barriers to COVID-19 vaccination
will be launched in the north-west part of the city starting on July 10
will kick off on Saturday to encourage vaccine uptake across neighbourhoods in the north-west area of the city where vaccination rates are the lowest
more than a dozen micro-focused clinics are being planned to take place across six priority neighbourhoods starting this weekend: Elms – Old Rexdale
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Somali community activist Sarah Ali works out of an office at Kingsview Village Junior School on Tuesday
The overwhelming majority Toronto residents who speak Somali live in central Etobicoke
They also face an inordinate amount of challenges
even those who are second- or third-generation Canadians
The overwhelming majority of 2016 Census respondents in Toronto who said they speak Somali live in central Etobicoke in the Kingsview-Village-The Westway neighbourhood south of Highway 401 and north of The Westway and St
Census respondents who live in Toronto who identified as Somali-speaking are the highest in number in five Etobicoke neighbourhoods
including Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown
mostly of second and now third generations
who live in the Kingsview Village-The Westway neighbourhood face challenges: insufficient youth programs
with many college and university graduates unable to find secure
Without sufficient youth support and activities
career-related employment for newly graduated twentysomethings
third-generation Canadian of Somali descent and area resident
“Everything is the need,” the mother of three said recently at Kingsview Village Junior School
a community and model school she called an exception for its strong after-school math and basketball programs for its students
“Agencies need more funding and support to sustain their programs
It causes many children and youth to roam around because they have no place to go
entrepreneurial community with nowhere to go.”
The Somali Workers Network is one of several diversity networks of the Toronto and Region Labour Council
Canada’s oldest and largest labour union with 205,000 members
unionized workers concerned with social justice issues formed the network to build bridges between the labour movement and Canadians of Somali descent
the City of Toronto identified Kingsview Village-The Westway as one of 31 neighbourhoods known as Neighbourhood Improvement Areas because they fall behind the Neighbourhood Equity Score
Low income is a reality for 25 per cent of the area’s population of 22,000 residents
higher than the 20 per cent rate of low income across all of Toronto
Data indicates 42.5 per cent of children younger than six and 39.6 per cent of children and youth younger than 18 are considered low income
22.9 per cent of those aged 18 to 64 and 11 per cent of seniors 65 and older are low income
The low-income measure after tax is $22,133 for singles and $44,266 for four-person families
Ali makes the point that Somalis who fled the country’s civil war in the 1990s to immigrate to Canada were largely well-educated
but weren’t successful in having their foreign qualifications and credentials recognized in their new home
“You had highly-educated people – engineers
teachers – fleeing the war without their papers
which led them to minimum-wage jobs in Canada
which led to depression and being unable to support their families,” Ali said
That phenomenon of well-educated people unable to find work in their chosen country is now also a reality for second- and third-generation Canadians of Somali descent
“The media portrays us as violent,” Ali said
“But people who live in other areas of the city and outside Toronto
why are they successful; because we had the resources like everyone else
“Our Somali brothers and sisters do not have the resources and have fallen through the cracks.”
Those seeking jobs or even enrolment in programs face discrimination
“(Discrimination because of) postal code is a fact; it’s not a joke or a myth,” she said
Mental illness among young Canadians of Somali descent is an “epidemic,” said Abdi Hagi Yusuf
“Stress and mental illness is high among our children when they can’t get jobs,” he said
“They need to see even one or two children hired by city parks and recreation
there is a belief this is pure targeting (against the community).”
The Canadian and Ontario governments’ support of Syrian refugees is worlds apart from the experience of Somali refugees when they fled civil war in the 1990s for a new life in Canada
the government is supporting the whole family
and the men are upgrading their skills,” she said
“If Somali refugees had had the same opportunities
resources and funding the government is giving Syrian refugees
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