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The city has decided to cancel a parking ticket issued to a tree-damaged car in Parkdale.
Photos of the silver Volkswagen with a yellow parking infraction notice placed on the car’s caved-in windshield went viral over the weekend, prompting questions about professional courtesy by parking enforcement officers, and vague bylaws regarding written-off vehicles parked on city streets.
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Brian Moniz, operations supervisor for Toronto Parking Enforcement, said the tree fell on the car on April 24, and parking enforcement received a complaint about the vehicle on Cowan Ave. on May 12.
Examining the ambiguous keepers of the hotel shelter list
The hotel shelter program is a highlight of the City’s homelessness solution strategy, galvanized by the effects of the pandemic. In a December press release last year, the City boasted that it created 2,300 new temporary shelter and hotel spaces for physical distancing, and their Streets to Homes team, part of the Shelter, Support, and Housing Administration, or SSHA, helped move more than 1,100 encampment dwellers inside.
So, who is the keeper of the hotel shelter list? And how do referrals get through and who manages this intake?
By calling the municipal, 24-hour non-emergency line, 311, I spoke with an SSHA staff member in the Streets to Homes team who told me that the criteria for the hotels were that the person showed “Priority” and “Requirement” needs. Priority means they live in one of the four main encampments in the city: Moss Park, Alexandra Park, Trinity Bellwoods, or Lamport Stadium. Requirement needs
Bottom Line
In light of the recent record number of COVID-19 cases in
Toronto and Ontario, on January 4, 2021, the Toronto Municipal
Government (the City ) and Toronto Public Health
( TPH ) published a
Letter of Instruction to Workplaces. The Letter of Instruction
imposes new COVID-19 obligations on Toronto employers, including
increased infection prevention measures and reporting
obligations.
Additionally, the City announced that it will be publishing its
workplace outbreak data on its COVID-19 monitoring dashboard
beginning on January 7, 2021.
Increased Infection Prevention Measures and Support for
Workers
The Letter of Instruction requires employers to implement the
following measures to combat COVID-19 in the workplace and support