Month: April 2017

42 Glen Elm

Ten tenants at the apartment building at 42 Glen Elm Avenue are facing eviction because they refuse to accept an offer to move their storage lockers to a nearby building (plus a $25 reduction in rent) so that the landlord can proceed with an expansion at the midtown building. It sits at the end of Glen Elm, east off Yonge Street near Alvin Ave north of St.Clair. The CBC story says many of the tenants accepted the landlord’s offer. But the ten are being summoned to the Landlord and Tenant court and may be evicted.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms in Alberta has warned the Nova Scotia Registrar of Motor Vehicles that it will face “legal steps” if it doesn’t reinstate Lorne Grabher’s personalized license plate by Thursday (April 6). Grabher, and his father before him, had the plate for decades before it was seen by a woman who made a complaint that it offended her. The Nova Scotia government agreed that the plate could be seen as a socially unacceptable slogan. In its letter, the Justice Centre said that decision was “an affront to the dignity of Canadians, and particularly those Canadians who are not of Anglo-Saxon descent.” Justice Centre president John Carpay said the decision represented “pandering to an unreasonable complaint.” He said the cancellation perpetuated misunderstanding, subverted the dignity and heritage of Lorne Grabher and many other Canadians and that it violated the freedom of expression protected by the Charter. Previous

340 cars

Michael Hall concedes he has a problem

Spread over 5 acres

A man from the interior of British Columbia is selling a 5-acre property which is home to 340 vintage cars at Tappen on Shuswap Lake about 300 kilometres east of Vancouver. Michael Hall began collecting cars 40 years ago. He remarks wryly that for the $1.45 million dollar list price, a condo owner in Vancouver can sell his place and come to Tappen with money to spare, plus get a lifetime of work on old cars. The five-acre listing comes complete with a renovated home, property zoned for auto salvage, a 900-square-foot restoration shop, a 1,200-square-foot steel building and the 340 vintage cars ready to be restored. Hall has been getting about 15 inquiries a day.

Donations are pouring in to help a family of five who lost most of their belongings in a fire Friday afternoon on Coxwell Avenue between Currie and Earl Haig Avenues. Next door to the home where the fire started, the Rogers family had the roof of their home as well as all of the contents of their bedrooms destroyed by smoke, fire and the water. As told by Joanna Lavoie of the Beach Mirror, community members and friends have come forward in droves to help the fire family, who did not have contents insurance, with donations of clothing as well as cash to help them with their basic needs. “I am very overwhelmed with people’s generosity,”  family friend Jane Somers told the Mirror. She put a call out for assistance on a few local Facebook groups. There is a GoFundMe page as well.

It’s a theme known to many journalists. Is it really right for people whose work has no purpose but to tell the truth to engage in practical jokes on their readers?  Kathy English

Global and Longo’s people

Anthony Farnell and Susan Hay

Event ran from noon to 4

Global News and Corus Radio had celebrity personnel at three Longo’s stores Saturday — including Leaside Village — to cheer on customers making donations to April Foods Day. For sure. The proceeds went to Corus Feeds Kids and the Daily Bread Food Bank.

LLFHL champs

The Peewee A Leaside Wildcats have defeated the Lake Shore Lightning 4 to 2 to become gold medal winners at the Lower Lakes Female Hockey League Championship Weekend at York University. The Wildcats pulled a sensational game out of their hockey bags to take top honours. The 11 and 12 year-old Cats were 2-1 underdogs to the Lake Shore squad which swept preliminary games 3-0. But the Wildcats won decisively in the championship match Saturday night at the Canlan York2 arena.

What was once a day to play silly pranks with your pals has evolved into a day where some of the world’s largest corporations join in the fun.  Global news has a nice summary of some of the pranks that took place this April 1st. Fun! Did you fall for any if them?

Effective immediately, we are now Canada Air. Learn more about how we’re rebranding as the #MostCanadian airline – https://t.co/LLclRMqvDS pic.twitter.com/d1VVcELzoZ

— WestJet (@WestJet) March 31, 2017

Breaking News: Hyperloop being planned for Toronto. "I believe it will get me from Mimico to Scarborough in 30 seconds", said a real person.

— Josh Matlow (@JoshMatlow) April 1, 2017

https://instagram.com/p/BSWhCuPlYwh/

Ford is recalling about 52,600 F-250 pickup trucks sold in the US and Canada because the vehicles could roll after the driver puts the automatic transmission lever into park position. The model affected is the 2017 F-250 powered by a 6.2-liter gasoline engine and built in Louisville, Kentucky, Ford said.  It said it was unaware of any injuries or accidents occurring from the fault.

Councillor Janet Davis (Ward 31) was calling it mayhem at East York Hockey as pipsqueaks took to the ice Saturday in advance of an event called the Little Stanley
Cup. Sounds good.

Studio on Dundas at Margueretta Street,

George Pimental

The studio of celebrated photographer George Pimentel is in ruins Saturday after a car blew through the front window of the Dundas Street West building about 2.30 a.m. The driver fled but was caught. Pimental told CP24 that the building was originally his father’s. When his parents immigrated to Canada, they opened up the studio in 1975. “It is our heritage,” he said. The car could have easily gone through the window of next door bar, Wallflower, which would have been full of patrons. Pimental said he is insured and plans to rebuild.