The province has approved a Toronto Fire Service request to order the closure of an unlicensed group home in the city’s east end after firefighters raced to the two-storey residence Monday. “There’s been no attempt, candidly, I would use the word willful neglect, to comply with the fire code,” Jessop said. Last year, the Ontario Provincial Police conducted an investigation into unlicensed group homes in Toronto, including the home at 108 Fawcett — part of a chain operated by Winston Manning and Phyllis Jackson. Article Continued BelowThe seven-month probe concluded the homes were overcrowded, unsanitary and in “deplorable” condition, but provincial health officials determined closing them would displace vulnerable people with nowhere else to go. Manning told the Star on Tuesday he moved the Fawcett Trail tenants to his other buildings scattered around Scarborough.

Source: thestar October 31, 2017 22:18 UTC