Metrolinx sent crews to Moss Park and Osgoode Hall on Saturday morning with orders to cut down dozens of trees to make way for future Ontario Line subway stations, leaving advocates and community groups scrambling to stop them.
granted by an Ontario judge, the work at Moss Park went ahead, and 61 trees were brought down over the course of the weekend.
“They've been worried for weeks and months, knowing that the trees are being cut down, but not when. I think it was unfair that they weren't given a date, and so it came to them by surprise. So there's some shock there and some despair that they weren't able to rally people to show their solidarity as it was happening.”
Melin Basi says people in the area have historically relied on the trees in Moss Park, particularly in the summer.
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