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WEATHER ALERT: Possibility of funnel clouds in TO today

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3:13 PM EDT Thursday 07 September 2017
Weather advisory in effect for:
City of Toronto
Conditions will be favourable for the development of funnel clouds today.
Scattered thunderstorms across Southern Ontario will continue into this evening.
Some of the thunderstorms will bring dime sized hail, wind gusts to 70 km/h and frequent lightning.
Funnel clouds may also make a brief appearance this afternoon in this unseasonably cool and unstable air mass.
Thunderstorms are expected to dissipate later this evening.
These types of funnel clouds are generated by weak rotation under rapidly growing clouds or weak thunderstorms. This weak rotation is normally not a danger near the ground. However, there is a chance that this rotation could intensify and become a weak landspout tornado.
Treat any funnel cloud sighting seriously. Should a funnel cloud develop nearby, prepare to take shelter. These funnel clouds usually appear with little or no warning.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ec.cpio-tempetes-ospc-storms.ec@canada.ca or tweet reports using #ONStorm.

Creepy, balloon bearing beings are scaring downtown TO

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Don’t worry, these child-sized figures are not aliens or something from another dimension. They are part of a marketing stunt for the upcoming Stephen King movie, It. Much of the movie was filmed in Toronto and is scheduled to be released September 7th. The stunt has its own hashtag: #WheresGeorgieTO. The Warner Brothers Canada Instagram account states, “Have you found Georgie? Post your photo with #WheresGeorgieTO for a chance to #WIN a private screening of #ITMovie!” Get snapping Toronto. If you dare.

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Gas leak reported on South Leaside construction site

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“Shelter” for those evacuated from their homes

Several blocks of south Leaside were blocked off from traffic Tuesday and many people were evacuated when crews replacing the water main broke a natural gas line Residents said the people in the block of Rumsey Rd. between Crofton Rd. and Parkhurst Blvd were ordered out of their homes. One woman, the owner of 182 Rumsey, was walking her dog only to hear sirens and rush home. Police would not let her into the street until she told them her ten-year old son was still in the home. She said the rupture occurred outside her front door. Police ordered a large bus to the scene to accommodate those who needed to rest for the estimated three-hour repair job to be done. No injuries were reported.

Molly’s Game and Downsizing screenings at TIFF 2017

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We all remember when Jessica Chastain and the film crew of Molly’s Game visited South Bayview over the winter of 2016/2017. Molly’s Game, directed by Aaron Sorkin, was filmed in numerous locations throughout our great city.  Many Torontonians are excited to learn that the world premiere of the film will be at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) this year.

TIFF will also feature a special presentation and Canadian Premiere of Downsizing, starring Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig. Matt, Kristen and crew were spotted in Leaside last summer filming some scenes from this film.

Screenshot from Molly’s Game trailer
Film set captured by The South Bayview Bulldog in 2016
Recognize the location of this screenshot from Molly’s Game Trailer?
Idris Elba / Molly’s Game
MOLLY’S GAME: Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut stars Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba in the true story of Molly Bloom, proprietor of Hollywood’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being shut down by the FBI.

DOWNSIZING: Matt Damon headlines a cast that includes Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Laura Dern, Jason Sudeikis, Alec Baldwin, and Neil Patrick Harris in Alexander Payne’s sci-fi social satire about a man who chooses to shrink himself (literally) to simplify his life.

See you on the red carpet!

Oregon McDonald’s staff get 3-minute McEclipse break

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Madras, Orgeon
Melania and Donald
McEclipse break

Oregon was the place to be this Monday as the full eclipse of the sun by the moon swept across the US beginning about 9.30 a.m. Pacific time. The tiny hamlet of Madras, Oregon welcomed thousands of visitors with all their paraphernalia for the moment. You can see the path of the eclipse in the NBC video below. The excitement of the full eclipse is heard and seen in the CNN video. In most parts of the upper Pacific, McDonald’s gave employees three minutes off (see sign) to watch the eclipse. A kind of McEclipse. Donald and Melania Trump were outside the White House with the necessary eye shades. Brides planned wedding events around the rare event. In Canada, a partial eclipse was visible in Vancouver but Toronto, where skies were to be somewhat darkened, it seemed way too normal.




Film crews on Bayview and Belsize tonight for TD Bank

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Untitled Films has notified residents that they will be filming scenes for a TD Bank commercial at 1578 Bayview Avenue today.  Traffic cones are in place on Belsize Drive and a small portion of Bayview, on the west side.  The notice states that production vehicles and various pieces of film related equipment will be located

  • on the west side of Bayview between Manor Rd. and Belsize Dr.;
  • and the north size of Belsize between Bayview and Cleveland

Filming is expected to be completed by approximately 11pm tonight.

 

Police close Bloor Street both ways Yonge to Church

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Police say they have called in bomb squad officers to the Bloor-Yonge subway station to investigate suspicious package at street level.