Supper Club dinner May 2, 2015 at Manning Canning

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Christine Manning of Manning Canning in Leaside is alerting residents to a supper club event being held at her facility at 105 Vanderhoof Ave on Saturday, May 2, 1015 by O’Brien’s Real Food. Sounds like fun as you get to gather around the chopping block and watch thing prepared. The menu features sustainable yellow fin tuna, organic winter root vegetables, Ontario beef short ribs and more. Check it out. 

 

Martha McCabe wins qualifying event for Pan Am Games

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Martha McCabe

Bennington Heights Martha McCabe has won the 200-metre breaststroke in the qualifying events  for the Toronto Pan Am Games which kick off Wednesday June 10 in Toronto. Martha was in the water at the new Pan Am Sports Centre at 857 Morningside Ave. in Scarborough on Wednesday, April 1. Trials run through to Saturday, April 4, 2015. It a qualifying event for both the Pan American Games in Toronto and the FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia this summer. Martha won the bronze medal for the 200-metre in 2011 the World Championships in Shanghai. The well-known local girl was Leaside’s first Athlete of the Year in 2013. Martha’s life, apart from university in Vancouver, has been here at home near her birthplace. Now she is in Toronto after graduating from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Human Kinetics. Morning heats begin at 10 a.m. each day at the new facility, with evening finals beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday’s finals will be followed by the live announcement of the national team for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games and FINA World Championships. Admission to the event is $5 for heats and $15 for finals with children 12 and under free and various packages available. Live webcast is available at: www.swimming.ca/2015TeamCanadaTrials

Toronto wants its police and “carding” to follow the crime

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As a background to carding, the police practice of gathering information to prevent crime, the linked column by Marcus Gee is useful. Still, many of the things which are cited by Mr Gee as newly-agreed upon at the police commission really seem rather obvious. One might have hoped singling out men because of their colour for questioning would long ago have been discarded. What is not mentioned in the column is the geography of carding as explained by the police last year. Carding, they pointed out, goes where the crime is. Maps of serious crime in the city reveal a close overlap with where the cops are asking questions. As has been said in the past, however much some people may dislike carding, there are many more residents of vulnerable neighborhoods who are protected by it. If it becomes necessary to stop and ask questions of young men in Leaside and Davisville Village because of crime, so be it. Globe and Mail