Hi;

There is no area in Toronto called Queens but there is a major street called Queen Street- probably that is what people were referring to. Queen Street runs about 14 km across the city, and to be perfectly honest there is not a single block in which we would be afraid to walk. There is a stretch of about 3 blocks of Queen Street East between Jarvis and Parliament Streets that is a bit sketchy, mainly because there are a few shelters for the disadvantaged in the area, but it is not bad enough to deter us personally from walking through.

Having said that, there is next to no reason for you to even be in that area unless it was passing through on the streetcar out to The Beach, in which case you would be unaffected .

If you were to tell us the particular places you'd like to visit that you thought might be affected by this warning then folks here could comment further.