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Crews respond to house fire in North Central Regina
Regina fire crews responded to a blaze at a house on the 1400 block of Retallack Street on July 3, 2025. (Donovan Maess / CTV News) Several crews responded to a house fire in North Central Regina on Thursday evening, having responded to a fire at the same house the night before. Around 6:35 p.m., crews were called to the 1400 block of Retallack Street for a report of a house fire. According to a post on X from Regina Fire, the blaze was quickly controlled, limiting extension to neighbouring houses. No injuries were reported and the fire is under investigation. About four fire trucks, police, and paramedics were on site, according to a reporter on scene. Regina fire crews responded to the same house just before 11 p.m. on Wednesday for a report of a basement fire. According to a post on X, light smoke was visible when crews arrived. Crews were able to contain the fire to the basement and no injuries were reported. - With files from Donovan Maess
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Sim says Vancouver has pitched 5 supportive housing sites to province, but won't say where they are
With a club located under a supportive housing complex and heavy drug use on the street, desire to hit the Granville Strip is waning, say club owners. Vancouver's mayor says his office has provided the province with a list of five city-owned sites that could be used for supportive housing, but he won't share any of the locations publicly. In a statement released Thursday, Ken Sim said the five unnamed sites could be used to replace the three 'inadequate' supportive housing facilities currently located in the city's Granville Entertainment District. Those facilities – the St. Helen's Hotel at 1161 Granville St., Luugat at 1176 Granville St. and Granville Villa at 1025 Granville St. – have a total of 283 units between them, but account for a disproportionately high number of calls for police and fire service, according to the city. In 2024, there were a total of 1,364 calls for police service at those three Granville Street addresses. 'This meant that those three buildings were responsible for one in every 125 police calls in the city, despite only housing one out of every 2,500 residents of Vancouver,' Sim said in his statement. The mayor added that there were 74 fires and 2,203 calls for Vancouver Fire Rescue Services at Luugat and St. Helen's between January 2020 and May 2025. 'The sites submitted to the province by the City of Vancouver are for five smaller-scale facilities, each with 55 to 65 units,' Sim said. 'This model is consistent with best practices, allowing for more focused care and better outcomes, in contrast with the warehousing approach that we have seen with the existing three sites.' The mayor's statement does not specify any of the five locations submitted to the province for consideration. When CTV News asked the mayor's office for the list, a spokesperson declined to provide it. 'The locations are confidential at this point in time,' the spokesperson said in an email, adding that the purpose of the mayor's statement was 'to put it on the public record that responsibility for the next steps of transitioning supportive housing out of the Granville Entertainment District now sits with the provincial government.' Last month, Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon committed to moving supportive housing away from the Granville strip, but no timeline for doing so has been made public. 'The City of Vancouver has done its part to provide viable sites for future facilities and the responsibility to transition these units out of the GED now sits with the province,' Sim said in his statement. 'We look forward to hearing from them on a plan for carrying this work out quickly.'
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Neighbours urge city to stick to the plan after developer pitches mega-development in southwest London
Residents are concerned about the Talbot Village development, which would create too much density in the neighbourhood. CTV's Daryl Newcombe reports. A developer's proposal to build a cluster of high-rise residential buildings along Pack Road is facing opposition from neighbours, who believe the Southwest Area Secondary Plan ensured the property would become a mix of medium-density and low-density housing. Southside Construction has applied to rezone 6309 Pack Road to permit a cluster of high rise buildings with a maximum height of 16-storeys closest to the roadway, plus 206 single detached lots and 36 townhouses in a subdivision on the southern half of the property. The high-density residential portion of the development is currently designated for medium-density housing in the Southwest Area Secondary Plan (October, 2024). 'The biggest shock was that the changes being proposed simply did not reflect what was originally proposed in the secondary plan,' explains John Kononiuk of the North Talbot Homeowners' Association. 070325 Bostwick Area planning map from the Southwest Area Secondary Plan showing medium density along Pack Road. (Source: City of London) The association opposes the planning application because of the impact the high-density buildings would have on their neighbourhood of single-family homes on the other side of Pack Road. The planning application predicts about 4,000 people would eventually live on the property, including the high-rise blocks having a density of up to 300 units per hectare. Neighbours say the high-rise area would be among the most densely populated areas in London. 'Spread these high-density buildings throughout the various developments that (the city's) looking at. Don't concentrate them here on Pack Road,' says Kononiuk. 070325 Conceptual drawing of a residential development proposed at 6309 Pack Road. (Source: City of London) The homeowners' association emphasizes it wants to collaborate with the developer and city staff on an amicable solution. They hope to reach a compromise that would lower the density, reduce the building heights along Pack Road, and take into consideration the traffic impacts of the development. 'The amount of traffic that will be generated on Pack Road and the noise pollution created by it will have a significant impact on the homes that already exist here, Kononiuk adds. Southside Construction Management was contacted by CTV News about its proposal for the property at 6309 Pack Road, but has yet to reply. The planning application is scheduled for consideration by the Planning and Environment Committee on July 15.
