Cara Operations has purchased New York Fries in a deal that keep the and other terms secret. Cara owns Harvey’s, Swiss Chalet, Kelsey’s, East Side Mario’s, Montana’s, Milestones, Prime Pubs (Fionn MacCool’s, The Merchant), Casey’s, Bier Markt and Landing Restaurants, including Hunter’s Landing, Harper’s Landing and Williams Landing. It is said that the 30-year-old NY Fries will help diversify Cara’s portfolio of stores into shopping centers, where Cara’s existing brands have limited presence.
Bay and Adelaide Streets have been re-opened in the few minutes before this post. They had been closed while engineers checked the stability of the antenna tower on top of the Trump Tower. There has been no explanation of what they found but the street re-oepning would seem to speak for itself.
Mount Pleasant Village will hold a public meeting tomorrow, September 2, 2015 at Briton House to discuss a new streetscape plan. Urban design company PUBLIC WORK will present an initial draft of what our street could look like in 10 years. The meting begins at 6:30. Briton House is at 720 Mount Pleasant Road at Manor Road.
Police are warning about the theft of the drug Oxyneo a narcotic pain reliever. On Sunday, August 23 2015, two containers of Oxyneo 80 mg were stolen in the Woodbine Avenue and O’Connor Drive area. These pills could be fatal if ingested, especially to children. Anyone finding the medication is asked not to handle it, but to contact police at 416-808-5400, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637). Download the free Crime Stoppers Mobile App on iTunes, Google Play or Blackberry App World.
Drunk driving is certainly delusional but the assumption has usually been that impaired motorists at least kept their eyes on the road. But now impaired driving has been superseded by the staggeringly dangerous folly of reading one’s email while driving. The mobile phone experience as been a terrible blow to the our faith in the common sense of humanity. New fines are in effect today in Ontario to try to get the attention of such drivers. The penalty for using a mobile phone in your car while it is moving is now $490, maybe higher. Cycling is included in the new legislation. Whether fines for “dooring” and a requirement for vehicles to stay a metre away from cyclists will make that form of transportation safer remains an open question. Cycling is an inherently tricky experience. Riders sit atop a nicely balanced two-wheeled vehicle with no protection from anything they may strike or be struck by. That may or may not be delusional but blowing through stop signs and hurtling around blind corners certainly is. Such conduct may be seen daily in South Bayview. Many if not most cycling fatalities are caused by the cyclist. It remains to be seen if new fines are enough to break through our enduring delusions about road safety
Toronto budget committee met today and according to reports not one of the seven members had a good thing to say about bidding on the 2024 Olympics. Budget Chief Gary Crawford was subdued as he said he has stepped back from the idea of a $50 billion dollar dive into the Olympic black hole. Others were flatly opposed. The committee members are:
INCOMPATIBLE WITH DEMOCRACY?
The games may or may not be affordable but there is continuing evidence of just how unattractive they are the top. The San Diego Times-Union writes that the IOC itself has emerged as the main obstacle to hosting the games in open and democratic societies. It says: “The problem: the organization does not meet democratic norms of transparency. The 2022 Winter Games bidding process offers powerful proof of this. In Oslo, the capital of oil-rich Norway, citizens voted yes to the candidacy for the games during the city’s first-ever popular referendum, and the national government even offered a hefty guarantee to cover any deficits. But the IOC sabotaged the process with impossible, prima-donnish demands: cocktail parties with the Norwegian royal family (where the royals were expected to pick up the bill), open bars during the night, and official-only driving lanes in the city. The investment of billions of tax crowns in such an elite event was too difficult a sell. Oslo had to drop the bid.” The IOC seems to have lost touch with the real world.
Someone submitted this compelling video to the CBC in British Columbia showing citizens coming upon a man trapped in his car, which had apparently rolled over. It is hard to turn away from the careful efforts made by the amateur rescuers to release the man, whose name is Wally, from his car.
Zach Menley is organizing this year’s Rotary Club of Leaside Community Corn Roast which is set for Sunday, September 20, 2015 at Trace Manes Park This is the 22nd annual corn roast and it always a hugely popular event. The times are as usual from noon to 5 p.m. Check it out at leasiderotarycornroast.com or if you wish to volunteer or be a sponsor give Zach a call at (416) 897-4820
Toronto has ordered the owners of Trump Tower to get an immediate engineering report on the status of the communications tower at the top of the building at 325 Bay Street. Until that is done, downtown is inconvenienced by the closure of the street between Richmond and King Streets and Adelaide Street West from Yonge Street to just west of Bay Street. The roads will remain closed until the owner of the building provides a report from a professional engineer that concludes there is no risk to the public. Roads must remain closed until this report is available and that cannot happen before tomorrow, the City said late Monday.
The Economist has simply set down the facts and given it a name. Years of U.S. government scheming to call home subsidiary businesses has been a killing experience for Canada. The Obama years have been especially brutal. Economist
Seriously. A Washington Post know-it-all has written a scolding story about why we must stop eating salads. This (unintentionally) hilarious tongue-lashing is founded on the premise that there are going to be far too many people on earth for salads. It is the quintessential rationale on how we must do with less (in this case no salads) so we can keep on making people Tamar Haspal
