Call it Cronut Burger Hell. It appears that the common element in the many cases of intestinal sickness at the CNE last night is the outrageous Cronut Burger.  Toronto public health officials are now on the scene at the Epic Burger concession  at the Ex to confirm the source of the nasty bug. Stories are said to be coming in from all over southern Ontario. Chris Parnell blacked out on the 401, according to CP24. Mothers had to deal with children who just had to have a Cronut Burger and other crises. The Cronut Burger is a melange of maple bacon jam, cinnamon sugar, Cronut bun (whatever that is) beef patty and processed cheese. You have to be asking for trouble. 

Loubiani and  Greyson

The on-going incarceration of two Canadians in Egypt has raised many questions. And it now seems that filmmaker John Greyson and Dr. Tarek Loubani, from London, Ont., are facing another two weeks in jail in Cairo. The federal government has said that it is disappointed that their detention will continue. Their friends and relatives say there is no reason whatsoever for the Cairo police to suspect the two of anything illegal. It must be understood however that nerves are raw in the Arab country. Have the police concocted their concerns about Greyson and Loubiani or are they merely mistaken? Do the two Canadians have political sympathies, despite their humanitarian aims, that might give sensitive Egyptian army bosses a reason to be wary. These are all fair questions in the context of the jailing of the Canadians and in no way reflect badly on them personally. It seems impossible in all the circumstances that Greyson and Loubiani will not be sent home in due course. At that time they may answer all the questions reporters will have for them.  We hope that’s soon.

There is just such a turmoil in the media over that saucy Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer. She went and got herself photographed by Vogue magazine looking like a sex symbol rather than a busy executive, wife and mom. We say it’s totally in the nature of “having it all” as Betty Friedan might have said. And who cares if no male executive would be photographed this way. Men and women are different you may have heard. Anyway, here she is on her escape-chute chaise lounge full of the “don’t bug me” attitude that prompted her to install a nursery in her office and tell employees they can’t work at home. The beast. Meantime, Ms Mayer is pulling off a huge publicity coup for her teetering last-century business. Yahoo never seems sure whether it should change its name to Yatter and limit everybody to 139 characters, or just retire from business. Marissa will figure it out. 

A man described by neighbors as “a bit of a hoarder” has died in an apartment fire overnight on St. Dennis Drive in Flemingdon Park. The man, 65, was found in his bed after the two-alarm fire was extinguished. The man was without vital signs when he was pulled from the smoke-filled room, and he died at the scene. Fire authorities said there was an “unusual amount of material” kept within the room including a  “fair amount of combustibles stored in the bedroom”.

The Globe and Mail has outed itself on an impending review of its work in publishing stories told by ten anonymous sources on the activities of Doug Ford as a young man. The story raised many eyebrows because it seemed like the newspaper was trying to get back in the game after the Toronto Star’s series of exposures on the Mr. Ford’s brother, Mayor Rob Ford, allegedly smoking cocaine and other revelations. The Ontario Press Council will hold a hearing in September on both papers after receiving complaints from the public. The two complaints will serve as representative of the 41 received by the independent press council — six of which were in writing, the rest by phone. “The council has determined that the issue to be addressed in each of the two hearings is whether the newspaper has engaged in irresponsible, unethical investigative reporting,” council executive director Don McCurdy said in a statement. Globe and Mail. 

The end is near for the elegant old stone home at 308 Rose Park Drive in Moore Park. It will be torn down this week to make way for two homes on the 68-foot wide lot. The process has been a collaborative one in the neighborhood. Many resident-lawyers and other neighbors have collaborated with the owners to make sure the builder creates homes they can live with. No one wanted to stand in the way of the deal made by their 30-year neighbors. Today (August 20, 2013) the heavy oak doors were being removed by Habitat for Humanity. Those doors will be desirable merchandise at the charity’s store. The home was listed for $2,495,000 in September 2012. The sale price was $2,150,000 in October 2012 and the now divided lot at addresses 308A and 308B may be purchased from Cimetta Properties together or singly, with or without a home built to the approved plans. No 308 Rose Park dates from the 1920s and is one of only a few architect-designed homes on the street.