Protecting Toronto’s Black culture in Little Jamaica
by TIna Yazdani and Jessica Bruno
Posted Jan 14, 2021 4:49 pm EDT
Last Updated Jan 15, 2021 at 4:56 pm EDT
A decade of transit construction and nearly a year of pandemic have taken their toll on Eglinton West’s Little Jamaica neighbourhood, and community members are saying now is the time to intervene to ensure it survives.
“As a long-time resident here, walking along Eglinton West is shocking,” says Bill Worrell, who has lived in the neighbourhood for 37 years. “The economic devastation: so many closed stores. It’s partly gentrification but it’s also the chaos of the construction.”
1 dead, 1 injured in single-vehicle crash in Mississauga
by News Staff
Last Updated Jan 9, 2021 at 11:09 pm EDT
The mangled wreckage of a single-vehicle crash in Mississauga which killed one woman and injured a male passenger. CITYNEWS/Rick Helinski
One person is dead and another has been injured following a single-vehicle crash in Mississauga.
Peel police say they were called to the scene on Erin Centre Boulevard near Glen Erin Drive in the area of Winston Churchill Boulevard and Eglinton Avenue just before 9 p.m. Saturday.
They say a small sedan was travelling eastbound when it jumped the curb and struck a light standard.
OPINION: In the midst of construction, the pandemic, and looming gentrification, Little Jamaica deserves better By Melissa Alice - Published on Dec 22, 2020
Since the start of Eglinton Crosstown LRT construction in 2011, more than 140 businesses have closed according to a report by Black Urbanism Toronto. (booledozer/Wikipedia)
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Woman found after Peel police ask for public s help in finding her
Peel police had asked for the public s help in locating a woman who was last seen Saturday night near her home in Mississauga, Ont.
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Posted: Dec 13, 2020 3:50 PM ET | Last Updated: March 18
Police in Peel Region are asking residents to check their homes and backyards for a missing woman they say is vulnerable and may have sought shelter due to the poor weather Saturday night. (Keith Burgess/CBC)
Update: The missing woman has been found.
Peel Police are asking for the public s assistance in locating a missing woman they say is vulnerable and has autism.