A number of stabbings have been reported on the hotel’s grounds. Assaults, verbal and physical. Now last Friday’s news report of a “suspicious death” in the hotel. The Toronto Sun, reporting the incident, added that the cost to Toronto taxpayers is $220 daily per housed individual. When the building was a budget hotel, operating for profit, no room cost that much. It is the involvement of bureaucrats, security and food that leads to this astoundingly high cost.
Then there are the local businesses that are already suffering thanks to the lockdown, inane decisions made by politicians. The Homeway is a wonderful family-owned restaurant on Mt. Pleasant, north of the church. In business since 1946, they serve perhaps the best breakfast for the price around. Jessica Burns is an owner, who the slimster knows from being a semi-regular customer when in the area. A delightful human being. Imagine the surprise seeing her on the news in the summer, reporting on their first ever break-in. Alcohol and technology were taken. Imagine the consternation, when a month later that happened again. No coincidence, that this took place...
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