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Posted: May 09, 2021 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 9
Kevin Kusi smiles for the camera on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 in front of a mural on the side of Extra Burger Dundas, a joint he frequented with friend and co-worker Phillip Ackaoui.(Sam Nar/CBC)
TORONTO A Toronto man is wanted by police following a string of break and enters in the city’s west end that left one business owner in the area on the hook for thousands of dollars worth of repairs. Police said they received reports of several break and enters in the Dundas Street West and Bloor Street West area between May 1 and May 3. During that time, four businesses were broken into and the suspect targeted the cash register and fled the area. Before that, police said that between April 13 and May 1, a man broke into “numerous” businesses located in the city’s Brockton Village and Little Portugal neighbourhoods. The suspect smashed the front glass window or door to gain entry and targeted cash, cigarettes, and lotto tickets, police said.
Published Wednesday, May 5, 2021 3:53PM EDT A Toronto man is wanted by police following a string of break and enters in the city’s west end that left one business owner in the area on the hook for thousands of dollars worth of repairs. Police said they received reports of several break and enters in the Dundas Street West and Bloor Street West area between May 1 and May 3. During that time, four businesses were broken into and the suspect targeted the cash register and fled the area. Before that, police said that between April 13 and May 1, a man broke into “numerous” businesses located in the city’s Brockton Village and Little Portugal neighbourhoods. The suspect smashed the front glass window or door to gain entry and targeted cash, cigarettes, and lotto tickets, police said.
Police investigating string of break and enters in the Junction Triangle area
by Quintin Bignell
Last Updated May 4, 2021 at 12:12 am EDT
A business is seen boarded up in the Junction Triangle area following a rash of break ins on May 1 and 2, 2021. CITYNEWS
Toronto Police are investigating a series of break and enters in the Junction Triangle area.
Police say four businesses were broken into over the past weekend near Dundas and Bloor Street West.
Pascal Vernhes is the owner of one of the impacted businesses, Le Baritan, and says his phone rang just after 3:00 a.m Saturday morning his alarm monitoring system company was alerting him that something had happened.
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Dockside Quinte, a proposed triple-skyscraper subdivision on the drawing board since 2014, received final approval by Belleville city council Monday and can now move ahead if all further financial conditions are met to city satisfaction.
Combined, three 15-storey residential towers to be constructed on lands along the former Morch Marine property on the west side of the mouth of the Moira River would bring up to 302 new suites to the downtown district.
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High-rise apartment blocks set for construction at 25 Dundas St. West are to be built south and parallel to the Canadian Pacific railway tracks with appropriate setbacks that border the property.