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Coronavirus: Chin-ups at west Toronto park earn man $880 fine

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Chin-ups at a west end park — where amenities remain closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic — have earned a Toronto man an $880 fine.

Dylan Finlay went for a run in Centennial Park on Tuesday, but when he made his usual stop to do chin-ups, a bylaw officer got in the way. “He told me I shouldn’t have been using the chin-up bar,” Finlay said. “I apologized.

I asked for a warning.” Finlay instead got a ticket for $880 including the victim surcharge for allegedly violating the emergency order issued by the Ontario government.

He said he didn’t realize it meant all park amenities were off-limits. “I assumed if it didn’t have caution tape or a sign on it, it was safe to use and I didn’t really think there would be a really big risk of getting

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