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As a property owner, it's up to you to ensure your home or business is safe, and that could mean removing the icicles from way up there or simply blocking off the area.

General Legal Standard just has to be reasonably safe in the circumstance. It's not perfect. People, business owners are not held up to a standard of perfection. It's not an insurance company where you get injured or have some damage, and they pay if it's in the policy. But as to be reasonably safe. Putting up the signs is as a first step Mike, much like a slippery floor sign.

If your property isn't hazard-free, the city can issue you a ticket.

Our first step in enforcement compliances education and informing people, but we will, if it's an immediate risk or hazard, we'll deal with it immediately. Issuing tickets is not going to remedy the unsafe situation. Doing the remedial action is how we mitigate the unsafe conditions.

These are not only a danger to those passing by. It can also mean you have a problem with your home.

Generally, the formation of large icicles on the roof as a sign of a roof that's not insulated properly. So you have the warm air from inside the building envelope, getting up into the roof space, which then melts the snow that's on the roof deck, and as the snow runs down and gets past the outside wall of the building to the unheated part of the roof, that's where it will start to freeze again.

City officials suggest removing the icicles because once they melt, there is a threat of water damage to your property.

And if you do plan on cleaning off the icicles, make sure the area around you is clear and board up the windows to ensure that no ice goes flying through them. As you there mutual, I'm Stella Acquisto, CityNews.
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No one really knows what the rules are, and I think that would be helpful if they were much clearer.

Pedestrian advocate, Dillon Reed feels it's not such a bad thing as long as you're not overstepping the law.

If you're at a crosswalk and you start walking when that "Do not walk" sign comes up, that's a ticketable offense.

But if you're mid-block, it gets a little gray because according to the law, as long as you're not interfering with traffic and yield the right away, you may not be running, or should I say walking afoul of any laws.

Nowhere is it defined how far from a crosswalk do you need to be to have to use the crosswalk, and nowhere is it defined what yield right of way means and how far that car has to be.

If cars to slow down for you, that's dangerous.

In Toronto, the number of traffic-related pedestrian injuries has fallen between 2010 and 2014. The number of fatalities, however, was up during that same timeframe.

The vast majority of pedestrians who are hit by cars are crossing with the light out of the marked crosswalk. And they're hit by cars that are turning.

Now even though data reveals that pedestrian collisions with vehicles are more common right here at the intersection, they're more fatal here, mid-block.

The research found that mid-block collisions are five times more likely to result in a fatality. At mid-block, vehicles are moving faster, so jaywalking exposes the pedestrians to greater risk. A gamble people often take.

An intersection even while doing this interview on jaywalking. Notice the guy behind our subject.

People crossing the middle of the block is something that happens in cities all over the world as part of the urban experience.

One that should be exercised with care, namely when there are no cars around and in a city like Toronto. Good luck with us. Peter Kim, Global News.

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Leslie Miller's long-haired Chihuahua Aloha is blind in one eye after a brutal attack last month by an off-leash boxer in their local park.

He grabbed her whole head and the vet later said that he was attempting to snap her neck.

And now her almost $3,000 in vet bills are piling up. And lastly, says the other dog has caused problems in the neighborhood before. She wants to hold its owners accountable.

We've found about three or four different owners that have had their dogs attacked to have seen her dog be aggressive.

After Aloha's attack, Leslie asked Animal Services to come out here and fill out a report. They said that they would ask the other dog owner to always use a muzzle on their animal. No fines were issued, and no other information was given, citing privacy concerns.

We can't give the name, address, or phone number, no?

That's just terrible. So, they're worried about her making sure it's fair for her when literally I have a dog who's now lost her eye. I have $2,800 in vet bills.

Leslie has hired a lawyer who says she is entitled to compensation through small claims court. We put the question to a personal injury lawyer.

If their dog does go ahead and bite another animal or another person, then they're liable under the law for the actions of their dog. The victim does not have to prove any negligence.

But first, the victim needs to know how to get in touch with the offender. Getting contact information can be tricky and costly. Now, Leslie with legal fees to add to her woes.

It's a Privacy Act. They can go through freedom of information through the city of Toronto and request the information.

Lawyers say the costs involved will differ for every case, and even though fighting for your dog's rights are mired in red tape, the success rate is high.

It just seems fair that the dog that was attacked would have more of the rights, and it just doesn't seem like it's that way right now.

Toronto Animal Services says that you can get in touch with them by calling 311 if your dog has ever attacked, or go onto their website for a whole list of bylaws and more information about what you're entitled to for the dog owner.

All that information is on our website, https://neinstein.ca/. At the East small animal shelter in Saphia Khambalia. 

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