Month: February 2017

Mulroney employs “Irish Eyes are Smiling” diplomacy (II)

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Former prime minister Brian Mulroney has sung When Irish Eyes are Smiling at a cancer charity event at Mar-a-Lago, the private club owned by Donald Trump. Mulroney was urged urged to go onstage by musician David Foster who played the piano for the former prime minister. The offering is seen in out of focus video posted to YouTube. It is said to have inspired favorable comments from the crowd about Canada and the current PM Justin Trudeau. The Saturday evening event recalled a much more rehearsed Mulroney vocalizing of Irish Eyes with then President Reagan in the 80s. On that occasion the warbling diplomacy was seen as evidence of the enduring (and favorable) relationship enjoyed by Canada with the US.

Man, 68, falls through ice while fishing in Norfolk County

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Rescuers have recovered the body of a Hamilton man, 68, who fell through ice while fishing at the Waterford Conservation Area between Brantford and Port Dover west of Hamilton.

Wildcats defeat Sharks 2-1 as they celebrate “Seniors Night”

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The Leaside Junior Wildcats defeated the Barrie Sharks 2-1 at Leaside Arena Saturday night. Sunday, the Wildcats meet the Toronto Aeros at the Millwood Rd rink. The games bring to a close the regular season of the Provincial Women’s Hockey League. The Wildcats are 10th ranked in the 20-team conference. Te Wildcats organization also celebrated “Seniors Night” at Leaaside arena. See the pictures here. Game Boxscore

Ages of the Wildcats

Genie’s “PG-13” plunge into topless SI shoot in Turks

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Genie Bouchard is Canada’s tennis sweetheart but she has also embraced the topless photo shoot as she proceeds to diversify her career. Here we see her in the Turks and Caicos and (right) being interviewed  about “staying in your lane” as a tennis player.

Boozy Councillor twice called constituent “sexy gramma”

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A Cambridge City Councillor, Mike Devine, is to be reprimanded after he was found to have violated the municipal code of conduct for calling a woman constituent a “sexy gramma”. He did so twice on separate occasions. Devine apparently had no association with the woman when he offered this remark. On the second occasion he also said the woman  was “F—— Hot.”  As well, the woman complained that Devine smelled of alcohol on both occasions. Waterloo Record

Special Saturday kicks off promising Family Day weekend

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Outside Starbucks
Record welcome
South Bayview Saturday

It was a stunning Saturday in February to kick off the Family Day weekend in South Bayview. Shoppers strolled the street and old friends embraced in — yes — 12 degree weather. The rest of the weekend also looks good as does the week ahead. Saturday’s sun and record-breaking mild temperatures had people — a few — wearing shorts. The high reached 12 C in Toronto, surpassing the old record of 10.8 in 2011. A high of 10 C is forecast for Sunday, a couple of degrees below the record of 12.5 C set in 1994. Check the full weather forecast here.

 

2 hurt, 1 critical when pickup ploughs into bridge abutment

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Two men were taken to hospital following a pickup truck crash in south Etobicoke after the vehicle ploughed into the abutment of an overpass.  Paramedics say a man in his 30s suffered critical injuries after a pickup crashed into a bridge underpass on Kipling Avenue near New Toronto Street around midnight. The second occupant of the vehicle suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries.