Month: November 2021

Toronto’s weather remains relatively warm for mid-November although freezing temps and snow cannot be far off.

Busy, busy /Photo: Skyler Ewing

Happy Helpers

This great shot is posted Sunday morning to remind area residents that the Leaside Little Helpers are selling brownies at the corner of Divadale and Don Avon Drives until noon. Love it.

Queensway near the Humber River/CTV

A woman is dead and a man was seriously injured after their car smashed into a utility pole on the Queensway near the Humber River Saturday night. The car was said by police to have “split in half” on impact with the pole.

Child critically hurt in crash into tree

Renforth north of Rathburn/Andrew Collins@ACollinsPhoto

A child is in critical condition and a woman has serious injuries after a car they were in drove into a tree on Renforth Drive north of Rathburn Rd Saturday night.

Cornwall Farm Boy

The history of Canada’s most recent grocery store success is told Saturday in the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder, a Postmedia newspaper. As South Bayview shoppers will know, the most recent Farm Boy opened this year in the Art Shoppe Lofts on Yonge St at Soudan Ave. The firm was purchased by Empire Inc (Sobeys) in 2018.

A lottery player somewhere in Quebec won Friday’s whopping $50 million Lotto Max jackpot. There were also two Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each up for grabs, but neither was claimed. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Nov. 16 will be an estimated $12 million.

Scottish garden

Heinke Thiessen

Members and friends of the Leaside Garden Society will learn about unique and ancient-looking Scottish gardens at the group’s January 13 meeting. The speaker will be Sheridan College horticulture teacher Heinke Thiessen. Her address will take those present to four gardens in Edinburgh before heading north to an adventure in seven amazing gardens found in the Caithness and Sutherland region of the Scottish Highlands. Sounds like fun. Arrange to join the Zoom meeting by visiting either www.leasidegardensociety.org  or email leaside@gardenontario.org

Canadian flags decorate lawn at Sunnybrook Veterans Centre

Sunnybrook Veterans Centre is dressed for remembrance this Thursday. Canadian flags decorate the laws of the residences. This year’s service was pre-recorded and can be seen below.

The first truck off the line will be auctioned to help GM and our Canadian dealers raise money for Sharon’s Kids.

The General Motors assembly plant has begun operations again this week after a three-year closure which seemed to augur the end of the auto industry in Oshawa. But in a surprising move, the company announced it would reopen amid growing demand for GM pickup trucks. The plant created 1,800 new jobs, supporting two production shifts. Unifor, the union representing the workers, says a third will be added in the future. Trucks produced in Oshawa will start being shipped to dealers in December. The first vehicle off the line has a patriotic paint job and will be donated to a children’s charity.

CAfeTO to become permanent/CP24

City Council made it official Wednesday with a vote that will see curb-lane patios (CafeTO) become a permanent feature of Toronto’s commercial streets. It’s part of an agenda inspired by the opportunity to close streets and add bicycle lanes during the Covid ordeal. No doubt opinion is divided.

/Bulldog

But most of these new uses of City streets — like bike lanes on Yonge St — were unthinkable as recently as three years ago. And when John Tory was first elected mayor seven years ago, he declared himself to be “a new sheriff in town” who would tow cars and trucks that dared park outside a business or coffee shop. He even pondered the use of lightning strike forklift trucks to move cars. That may have been extreme but now painted pavement and bollards have pushed delivery trucks into traffic lanes.

Truck unloading at Yonge and Roxborough/Yonge and Roxborough News

Here are the happy faces of the U18A Wildcats (Loft and Villarin) as they celebrate a silver win at the Waterloo Fall Challenge Cup last weekend. The team went undefeated heading into the final but came up just short, losing 3-1 to a strong team from Clarington.

The explosive growth of Toronto has rolled out across Southern Ontario and now the government says a high-speed road is needed between Highways 400 and 404.

It is 100 years since the poppy came to symbolize our gratitude and respect for those who have died in Canada’s wars. These reports tell the story of how the little flower inspired an army surgeon from Guelph to scribble down a few poignant lines that move us a century later.