The busy commercial corner of Eglinton Ave. E and Brimley Road in central Scarborough was shaken up Monday afternoon with a collision resulting in a rollover. Shoppers and Family Day groups were flooding Twitter with questions about the cause. It does not appear if injuries were too serious. Some took pictures as shown above.
Bob White, former head of the Canadian Auto Workers union, has died at the age of 81. White died Sunday in Kincardine near Owen Sound. He called a maverick by fellow unionists and his signature accomplishment was the breakaway of Canadian autoworkers from United Auto Workers in the US. White’s death was announced by Unifor — the union created in 2013 from the combination of the CAW and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union — which said he “passed away peacefully” without specifying the cause of his death.
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Mayor Tory has visited the Balmoral Ave fire hall near Yonge St to thank the firefighters who fought the conflagration at the Badminton and Racquet Club on Tuesday. Those who are assigned to the historic 1911 architectural jewel in Deer Park are known as the Knights of Balmoral. The name was perhaps never more fitting although Station 311 has seen a lot of history. The mayor had a handful of “Tim Horton tickets” given to him by a coffee manager as a token of respect to those at the Balmoral hall A sour note was raised on Twitter (as it often is) by cynics who saw this as an “ethics breach” or as some sort of insult to the fire personnel. Sigh.
Mayor John Tory @ Fire Station 311 thanking firefighters, handing out Tim Hortons cards, for the efforts in last week's Yonge/St. Clair fire pic.twitter.com/P0kSezQEZk
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A woman was rescued from an apartment fire with minor burns because a man who had just had breakfast at an east-end hostel across the street saw the smoke and ran to the rescue. He is identified by the CBC as Leo Meawasige. He was came out of Margaret’s east end drop in centre at All Saint Church to see the apartment at Dundas and Sherbourne Streets. His dramatic tale is told in the video below
The well-known closures on Family Day are in effect — banks, government and big supermarkets — are shuttered. The movies are open and there will be skating available free at the Leaside Arena. Summerhill Market will be open on Mt.Pleasant and on Summerhill Ave. Monday.
Here we see the victorious Atom B girls of the Leaside Wildcats Association @TorontoLeaside proudly chomping down on their gold medals after winning the Orangeville Tigers Tournament over the weekend. Nice going ladies.
Adolf Hitler’s personal telephone, which he used to dictate many of his deadly World War II commands, has sold at auction in Washington on Sunday for $243,000. The auction house of Alexander Historical Auctions kept the name of the buyer secret. And in Russia, the deepest freshwater lake in the world hosted a freezing endurance race on Sunday. More than 40 Russians and 30 Dutch nationals competed in an ice skating and cycling contest at Lake Baikal in Siberian Russia.
Chris Messina, the creator of the hashtag on Twitter, is interviewed by BNN reporters.
A quaint commercial property at 1555 Dundas Street East on the corner of Hastings Ave is listed for $998,000. The offer sells the business as well — a “spa” of some type which is said to generate about $3,000 in business per month. It is a modest but no doubt proud neighborhood and it will be interesting to see if this remaining storefront from another age and the living quarters behind it can fetch a million dollars. Listing
The Family Day morning of Monday, February 20, 2017 will be the time for many police officers to launch the distracted driving campaign called “That Text or Call Could End It All.” This one-week initiative will highlight all dangerous activities associated with drivers who talk, text, type, dial or email using hand-held communication and entertainment devices. This campaign will incorporate the use of a hearse and both stealth and fully marked police vehicles. The young shown above are a wrenching reminder of the dangerous use of phones. She is now gone and he lives on in deep remorse for the romantic text session they share until her car slammed into the back of a truck on a Quebec highway. Read it here. Starting tomorrow, police will be looking for hand-held communication and entertainment devices in use on Toronto roads.
