Josee Forest-Niesing, a lawyer and Ontario senator, has died shortly after being hospitalized with C-19. She was 56. Her office said earlier in the week that the Sudbury senator returned home last Saturday after being admitted to hospital with the virus. The statement noted she was fully vaccinated but was considered especially vulnerable due to an autoimmune condition that had affected her lungs for the last 15 years.
A ticket holder in Ontario won Saturday’s $7.5 million Lotto 649 jackpot. And the draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize went to a lottery player in British Columbia. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Nov. 24 will be an estimated $5 million.
Surprise, North Leaside. The latest LRT-inspired tower proposal is a 25-storey mixed-use condominium building at the designated address of 1837 Bayview Ave on the southeast corner of Broadway Ave. Urban Toronto
The City has announced it will accept 20,000 bookings to vaccinate children 5 to 12 as soon the child-friendly version of Pfizer’s C-19 vaccine arrives in town. Parents may also arrange for vaccination at participating drugstores across the City. The vaccine is expected shortly with a possibility it may arrive by Sunday.
Canada has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children 5 to 11 years of age. A news conference is being held (or was) Friday morning.
Leaside’s Team Epping is bidding for the right to represent Canada at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Play begins Friday at the Tim Hortons Olympic Curling Trials in Saskatoon. There are nine men’s and nine women’s teams in the competition. The winning teams will represent Canada in the team curling competition at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
The astonishing performance of Canada’s men’s soccer team has them on the road to the World Cup in Qatar next year. Alphonso Davies gives Canada a shot at World Cup
School bus rammed by fire truck
The Buffalo Fire Department has released this shot of the collision between one of its trucks and a school bus. Happily, there were no children on the bus and the driver escaped injury.
Fabergé eggs on show in London
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has launched a show displaying the work of Fabergé, jeweller to the Romanov dynasty in Imperial Russia. There are 15 Fabergée Easter eggs, tiaras and many other priceless pieces in the show.
A huge highrise proposal for the west side of Broadview Ave south of Bloor St would see a 35-storey tower built on top of a seven-storey base building. There’s a virtual information meeting Thursday night. The proposal indicates that existing leases will be retained. That includes the Loblaws store at 720 Broadview.
Beginning in 2022, the Ontario government will switch exclusively to email notices to citizens that their driver’s licences, licence plate stickers, and health cards need to be renewed. Email is more than 30 years old and is everywhere but no doubt there are some folks who still aren’t converted. Below is an interview with the minister, Ross Romano on this change.
Dave Owen, the owner of the popular fresh fish and seafood chain de la mer, has posted a video in which he tells the public he has been diagnosed with cancer.
Joe Natale is gone from Rogers Communications and Tony Staffieri is the new CEO as Edward Rogers wields power at the large public firm. The report above is from Rogers owned City News, certainly as good a source as any.
Phone and television sets will wail with the sound of the national Ready Alert warning system Wednesday. In Ontario, the fearful noise that sounds like magnified fingernails on a blackboard will occur about 12.55. It’s no doubt important but be careful not to spin off the highway in fear if you’re driving.
