The Sport Clips haircut shop hoisted up its main signage today (Wednesday, June 19, 2013). They will be located in the former money exchange shop next door to the Smokin Cigar so we will have quite a macho stretch on the west side down by Byford’s Real Estate. Nonetheless, the  ladies will feel at home because the haircutters at Sport Clips are women. Is this all okay at Gender Neutral Central? Well never mind, you get a haircut and watch some sports. Sounds okay. The price list is yet to come.  Previous post 

Bob Rae is seen with Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau at the Liberal party caucus this morning (Wednesday, June 19, 2013) where he announced his resignation from the House of Commons. His announcement was met by appleause and some tears. The member for Toronto Centre will become chief negotiator for First Nations in talks with the Ontario government about development of the Ring of Fire, an iron ore project in Northern Ontario. He is also going to tour the nine Matawa communities in the mining and resource-rich area this summer. Rae was Ontario premier from 1990 to 1995. His decision to leave the House raises the question of who might contest the important riding on the fringe of South Bayview. It will be greatly coveted by all parties in the 2015  General Election.  CBC

The Halton Region Health Department is reporting three cases of measles in Burlington. The cases are confirmed after three children from the same family showed symptoms. Doctors are not sure how the children were infected but say they think that a family member may have picked up the virus while travelling outside the province. Measles no longer circulates in Canada, but Canadians who are not vaccinated or immune through previous infection can pick it up while travelling in places where the virus is still common. Officials remember the dreadful surprise outbreak in Quebec in 2011 when 250 kids came down with measles. That was caused by travellers returning from France where they had been in contact with unvaccinated children who had caught measles.  Halton health authority advised that anyone who visited three locations in Burlington on Saturday, June 8 may have been exposed to the virus. The locations are SportChek at the Burlington Mall, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.; The Collector’s Vault, near Guelph Line and Fairview St., from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; and Al’s Source for Sports, at 3485 Fairview St., from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The children affected visited those three locations at roughly the listed times.  Measles has virtually disappeared in Canada and the rest of the developed world, and there are dramatic reductions in the developing world, to the point where last year there was beginning to be serious discussion about eradication. The problem is that vaccines only work if people are vaccinated. But some parents in the Western world are not getting their children vaccinated, or fully vaccinated.

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A huge and very old tree came tumbling out of a backyard high above Mr Pleasant Rd. south of Garfield Ave. last night around 7 p.m.. It crashed into a car causing a lot of damage but happily the driver was not hurt.  One man told 680 News: “It is actually a miracle that nobody was hurt because when I saw the car, it had fallen on the windshield and there was branch that actually impaled through the windshield, through the car, to the floor of the car.”