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Admiral Beez said:
Will that be today and tonight's excuse?
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There's not much that will have changed in a few weeks.

Council only gave direction on some changes last week.

No snow accumulation (for any length of time) is expected today, as this turns to rain over night and is set to get warm tomorrow.
 
Looks like a large power outage has hit the financial district again today.
Looks like it is the area east of York Street through at least to Yonge.
Not sure how far north-south of King it goes.
 
Richard White said:
Nothing on the outage map yet.
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Definitely something happening and it appears spotty.

FCP has no power, neither does the new TD building on Front as you can see in this photo the LED logo signs went out.

I'm in a building on the south side of King and York and it's business as usual here.

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Coolibop said:
Eta 430
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Looks like all is back up now.
A store worker told me the origin of the outage was a fire in Commerce Court that either required or tripped an emergency power cut to the whole area.
They were later able to isolate the directly affected building from the grid and get power back elsewhere while they worked on emergency repairs.
 
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There seemed to be a fire on the roof of the low Commerce Court building with the Walrus on the ground floor. There was a fire truck with a ladder up to there, and some smoke visible around 3:00.

I don't know if it was the whole area. I was watching a Champion's League game at the Elephant & Castle, and they weren't out. But the building right to the east of it was out.
 
generalcanada said:
I think people misunderstand what it means to "ask for more to be done" about the homeless. In general, they simply want them gone, and it always happens the same way whether it be Clarence Square, Trinity, or Allan Gardens, Its always the same, start with a bit of sympathy, give them time, then through incidents as you noted, causes residents to start asking the city to do something about it, when the city takes too long they then start saying "enough is enough go away".
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Indeed. And when the city takes too long, the encampments begin to expand.

www.thestar.com

Toronto’s tent encampments are up 20% — expanding into areas they’ve never been found in before

Despite new federal funds, numbers are expected to continue to grow.
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One thing that drives me crazy for no really rational reason is that when the city officials talk about it, they refer to every single tent as an encampment. So they say thing like "Dufferin Grove has 83 encampments". No, it's one encampment with 83 temporary structures.
 
generalcanada said:
Whats interesting about this data is how far out of the core the encampments are. Like not expanded density, just more sprawly
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I can only assume that the three pillars of the homeless industrial complex (charities/non-profits, gov't services and complacent bylaw enforcement) that make encampments sustainable has also sprawled outward.
 
I imagine it's just people who have over the years been evicted from Allan Gardens, then Trinity Bellwoods, then Clarence Square, then Trinity Square and just want to maximize their chances of being left alone.
 
Northern Light said:
I'm sure we have an events thread for Jane's walks, but I still want to put a couple of them here.

Why? Because they are led by City staff from whom you may gain some insight on how things work.....and have the opportunity to ask questions...

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Sounds interesting!

I assisted with a Janes Walk once. We "broke into" the Toronto Zoo and walked the monorail guideway in 2013. It was a listed Janes Walk and we entered the guideway by hopping a fence near Old Finch and Morningside.

I actually have a video of it here:

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