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Extra, Extra: Stolen Fentanyl Puts Police on High Alert, Parking Prices to Rise, and the Shaw Festival’s New Artistic Director
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- Toronto police are on high alert after 20 fentanyl patches were stolen from a car in the Yonge and Finch area on Tuesday. Police said in a news release, “If the patch is cut or altered from its original state and the gel is consumed, the results could be fatal,” urging the public to be wary of the drug, which may be added to recreational drugs such as cocaine. Fentanyl is a powerful prescription painkiller linked to 655 deaths across Canada between 2009 and 2013, with 16 overdoses in B.C. last Sunday alone.
- Fifty of Toronto’s “Green P” parking lots will be seeing a rise in price come September 8, with on-street metered parking fees likely to go up as well. Toronto Parking Authority president Lorne Persiko said Wednesday that a full list of changes won’t be available until later next week, but that the hike is expected to generate between $2 million and $2.5 million annually. “Our target users are short-term parkers—we want people to be able to visit the stores and to do it affordably, and we have to make spaces available,” he said.
- The Shaw Festival has announced Tim Carroll as its new artistic director. Carroll, who has won major awards in England and has been nominated for Tony Awards for his productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III, is best known in Canada for his work on King John, Peter Pan, and Romeo and Juliet at the Stratford Festival.