To celebrate this little known holiday, free wing samplers will be doled out at Wild Wing at Bayview and Millwood on Saturday from open – 5pm. Pop inside for $5 pints of Canadian (all day). Founded in 1999 in Sunderland Ontario, Wild Wing has grown to 83 locations across Canada. Wild Wing is the largest Canadian Chicken Wing chain, and is famous for offering 101 flavours. See you Saturday.
Baskin-Robbins at Bayview and Millwood is all decked out for their Customer Appreciation Day! Today, July 26 2017, from 6pm-close, if you buy one scoop, then the 2nd is on them. The Most Excellent Crew will be playing music, there will be face painting and you can spin the wheel for prizes and deals. Signage also mentions that they are under new management. We all scream for ice cream! See you tonight at 1530 Bayview Ave.
Toronto Fire Service has cleared from a Code Red (fire call) at Sunnybrook Heath Sciences Centre Thursday morning. Online accounts say it was an elevator incident, perhaps wiring.
Police have deployed water cannons as anti-G20 protests in Hamburg, Germany continue to escalate.
German police disperse #G20 protest with water cannon before summit: https://t.co/wZyslh2PqM Watch live: https://t.co/XkO1yIbz9C pic.twitter.com/Ot7xjPLPGy
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 6, 2017
More than 100K protesters are expected in Hamburg, Germany, for G20 Summit; 20K officers are on hand to patrol city https://t.co/L5Mhgo1WBx pic.twitter.com/pazVwCyR3Q
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 6, 2017
If you’re heading downtown this weekend, pass by HTO Park where you will catch a glimpse of the World’s Largest Rubber Duck. The spectacle stands six stories tall and is making its first visit to Canada to join in the Canada 150 celebrations. This weekend the duck will be bathing in Lake Ontario as part of the Redpath Waterfront Festival.
DUCK STATS
Height: 61 feet tall (just over 6 stories)
Width: 79 feet wide
Length: 89 feet long
Weight: 30,000 pounds
Sgt Kerry Schmidt recorded this Facebook Live video from Yonge Dundas Square today, where MADD (Mother’s Against Drunk Driving) and safety partners are sharing words of caution for motorists and thrill-seekers as we head into the Canada Day long weekend. Have a look inside OPP and TPS vehicles, chat with paramedics and have your picture taken getting handcuffed! Their messages could save a life. Be smart. #NeverDriveImpaired
TPS NEWS RELEASE – ROAD CLOSURES
On Saturday, July 1, 2017, the annual East York Canada Day parade will take place. At 10 a.m., the parade will begin near Dieppe Park and finish at approximately 1 p.m., at Stan Wadlow Park.
Participants will assemble for the parade beginning at 9 a.m.
Formation Area: Cosburn Avenue from Greenwood Avenue to Barfield Avenue
The parade route is as follows:
– eastbound on Cosburn Avenue to Coxwell Avenue
– southbound on Coxwell Avenue to Sammon Avenue
– eastbound on Sammon Avenue to Woodbine Avenue
– northbound on Woodbine Avenue to O’Connor Drive
Dispersal Area:
– floats and participants, Shoppers Drug Mart parking lot at Woodbine Avenue and O’Connor Drive
– spectators, Stan Wadlow Park via Trento Avenue
Motorists in the area may experience traffic delays.
UPDATE: Worker has been rescued. Toronto Fire Service has tweeted that a worker is stuck at the top of a cell tower (100ft up), equipment is broken, Toronto Fire investigating.
All Bayview lanes closured nr Post Rd. @Toronto_Fire rescuing worker in broken cranebucket 100' up. #GO1148537 ^vk
— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) June 27, 2017
BAYVIEW AVE – #TorontoFire crews have rescued the worker stuck 100ft up a cell phone tower when the equipment failed pic.twitter.com/J4y8GBgeeY
— Toronto Fire Services (@Toronto_Fire) June 27, 2017
The Edmonton Garrison’s Royal Canadian Artillery band plays Ordinary Day by Great Big Sea at the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace.
Edmonton Garrison military musicians headed to Buckingham Place. • Canadian soldier, Capt. Megan Couto, becomes 1st female infantry officer to command Queen’s Guard.
