Air Canada will cancel as many as 30 regular routes across Canada including four in Ontario. Gone is service from Toronto to North Bay, Toronto to Kingston, London to Ottawa and Windsor to Montreal. It’s clear the airline is in a shambles as COVID-19 essentially forbids travel by air. A list of other routes cancelled is seen in the Air Canada release.
Fire has destroyed a number of cars Tuesday at a collision repair centre on Champagne Drive in North York. Reporter and former police officer Cam Woolley is quoted by Newstalk1010 Radio as saying he thinks the blaze is likely deliberate.
Vladimir Putin is said to be finding lots of support for his plan to become Russia’s president forever. As in China, democracy is just another silly word. Among the tales being told by the former KGB agent to xenophobic loyalists is that the US, UK and other allies conspired with Hitler. No mention apparently of how Stalin happily grabbed half of Poland when the Nazis invaded Warsaw in 1939.
The Ministry of Health reports 157 new COVID-19 infections Tuesday during the 24-hour period ending at midnight. Some 99 of these cases occurred in Toronto, Peel and York Region, 17 were found in Windsor-Essex. Ontario reported 111 cases on Friday, 160 on Saturday, 178 on Sunday and 257 on Monday, with all but 80 of those found in migrant agricultural workers in the Windsor-Essex area. This period saw 23,759 tests completed. Daily summaries
Leaside, Moore Park, Davisville Village give virus a miss
The interactive map maintained by the City tells its own story about where, when and maybe why COVID-19 occurs. It shows local figures. There have been a total of 23 cases in Leaside and Bennington, 24 in Moore Park and Rosedale and 19 in the part of Davisville Village defined as Mt. Pleasant East. Hover your mouse pointer (or cursor) over the neighborhoods to see totals to date. NOTE: The City website forces you to find link at top of its main page. Look for COVID-19 Neighbourhood Maps
A new outbreak of COVID-19 cases in British Columbia has been traced to a Vancouver strip club which was “skirting the rules in some way.” Terrible but it’s hard to suppress a smirk. Then, China is injecting its soldiers with a vaccine that has skipped final testing. It is produced by the military’s research unit and CanSino Biologics, which has a collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada. Here at home, Mayor Tory says that he will support a recommendation that would make it mandatory for residents to wear a face mask in all “indoor settings where the public gathers.” Tory says that the bylaw will take effect on July 7, provided that it is approved by Council as it meets Tuesday.
Toronto City Council has voted in favour of a series of reforms that could alter the future of policing in the city, including the creation of a non-police response team for mental health calls and a mandate to require all officers to have body-worn cameras by 2021. But a motion to cut next years police budget failed. Members Josh Matlow (Ward 12) and Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 13) had called for a 2021 police budget cut of at least 10 percent, redirecting the money toward community services. The motion was defeated by a vote of eight to 16.
Police are asking public help in finding an 800-lb automatic traffic camera apparently stolen from near Jameson Ave and Queen St. West. The Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) system was set to go into action Wednesday snapping speeders and sending tickets for a single km/hr (or more) infraction. This device typically requires a hydraulic lift to remove it
A Kingston nail salon open less than ten days and supposedly under strict distancing rules has been the focus of 25 COVID-19 cases. The local MOH, Keiran Moore, has told the CBC that Binh’s Nail and Spa was operating without masks and no social distance plan. Six of the cases are staff, six are clients and the rest are their close contacts.
The Ministry of Health says Monday that an outbreak of 177 COVID-19 cases among Essex County migrant farmworkers has driven its 24-hour total of cases to 257. The good news is that there were just 80 cases elsewhere in the province. Once again widespread testing continues. Sunday local health officials and others completed more than 27,000 tests. Daily summaries
City Council was streaming questions to the police chief and others Monday for those with the stamina. City Council
That old tinkerer Henry Ford would be stunned to see the 2021 version of the pickup truck that bears his name. Reclining seats, a front seat that converts into an office and power plugs in the cargo bed powered by the engine. That’s so you operate an electric tool without hydro. Ford coined the name pickup truck and built the first one in 1925.
The Ministry of Health has counted 178 new cases of COVID-19 Sunday for the 24-hour period ending at midnight. This number creeps up a bit on recent counts but is still under 200 and seen as a sign the infection receding. Daily summaries
