Twenty-five properties in Toronto’s Riverdale neighbourhood are being expropriated for the construction of the Ontario Line.
Metrolinx told Global News in a statement that “updated assessments” revealed the homes between Langley and Riverdale avenues are “vulnerable to potential structural impacts … due to tunnelling activities.”
Residents said the news came as a shock.
“I’ve been in this neighbourhood all my life, and I love it. I don’t want to leave,” said Peggy Leung.
Caryn Lieberman reports.
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Thank you Doug Ford. This is a provincial project and he claims there's a housing shortage. So get rid of homes and re-sell it back to them.
So they are probably going to sell the land for double in the future. How is that legal.
Some shady stuff. They are buying at fair market value now… When its all said and done when the tunnelling is done will they sell at a profit? You are forcing them out they need to be paid a premium OR you sell back to the former owners at what you bought them for you greedy pigs
Is Metrolink a privately owned rail? And are the homeowners being paid two times the market rate to find suitable replacement housing?
Sounds like Communism but we need more people apparently, who cares about residents or their children right? We just aren’t breeding, working and dying efficiently enough.
See it is no different than communist countries lol
Metrolinx, ruining everywhere they go.
And how's the Eglinton line? Criminals.
Y'all voted for subways, this is how they have to make them
Wasn't this the plot of UP?
Now you know how the First Nations felt.
Renter*
Since they’re forcing them due to their neglect they should be paying 3 to 4 times the value or put them in a empty house in the neighbourhood to their choosing and you buy it out for them but that would really in fact the profit margin of the tunnel wouldn’t it
Disgusting
We need to get together and demand some serious change in this country
This wouldn’t happen in America 🇺🇸.
This desn't look good for the Ford administration.
When you are accused of taking money from contractors, maybe don't force people out of their homes?
We gotta get these Uber eats deliveries guys off the side walks last time I checked it walk illegal to bike on the side walk? Meanwhile e-bikes… people tell me 5 times of day about almost getting hit by Uber eats delivery guys on e-bikes. Where the regulation. Canada’s police are lazy. Like I said last time I checked it was illegal to bike on the side walk. But cops do nothing
They need to hold out for big cash. I know of someone who did just that on Pape. She was the last holdout and walked away with $6mil, and her place was barely worth $1mil. That's why these budgets balloon beyond the original numbers. Fight the good fight!!
Ford has done this in st Catharines too, in order to expand the skyway. Expropriation should be illegal!
Are they being reimbursed for moving costs too? That can be a large expense.
Go talk to Olivia chow, she’ll fix it.
Kick rocks.
Shame on Metrolinks, epic engineering fail!!
The truth is you don't own your home or property. In Canada you are renting your home or property from the government. If you stop paying rent (property taxes) they will take it. That's not ownership. Furthermore they cannforce you to sell on thier terms not yours. That is not ownership.
😂😂😂😂 sad thing is Canadians fail to realize that the government owns the land u only own the house and the dirt supporting it. Now u see how evil this place is
These people are being paid way more than what their homes are worth.
A multiple of fair value AND a right to buy back the house at a discount should be the starting point! Metrolinx knows better and should act better.
they're stealing homes now in their efforts to turn us all into slaves
Why is commuting such an unstoppable funnel on our society?
Welcome to 1984 everyone…. Orwell was 100% correct. Canada has become a nightmare.
Good news. Build it finally
The Corporation will resell the property for condos and make a killing
Will Canadians tolerate the annexation of their homes without compensation ?
"Fair market value" is not compensation…
I would not sell my home for fair market value
— I am not stupid
How is this legal ?
I bet the homes go to people named E. Lee Gal brother
As Trudeau says you will own nothing and you will eat the bugs 😂😂
That woman saying it’s the government you can’t do any is complete wrong that’s the mindset they want people to have look at Europe and other places in the world when the citizens stand up to the government
Metrogrift. Use engineer to take yr home. Will you get it back? "All options on table". Great company kicking out old ladies
Why is there no referendum on this?
This is criminal.
I’d hunker down. No way they’d get me out of my home without offering at least double what my home is worth.