Above is a live stream from outside St.Mary’s Hospital. If you catch it right you may see the Duke and Duchess leave with their new princess. Below is SKY News announcement and unofficial town crier announcement.
North America slept as the new princess arrived at St.Mary’s Hospital in London. Reuters
Ty Stemmler
Waterloo teen Ty Stemmler has been suspended for three days because he made up an official-looking notice and tweeted a fake announcement that the K-W school board would be on strike effective Monday. You can see how the kid’s mind works. There have been a lot of surprise strikes going around. Just Thursday it was announced that the entire Peel Region High school system will be out Monday morning. Just that fast “I thought it would be funny,” said the Grade 12 student. Of course, these days no offense is too small to require a suspension. Sharp reprimands are so pre-zero-tolerance. Stemmler has been yanked and let that be a lesson to the rest of you rapscallions.
An Italian man has hung up the phone twice on Pope Francis, thinking the calls were a prank. On the third call, he was persuaded that it really was the Pontiff and was able to make an explanation for his rudeness. The Pope had called the man to commiserate with him about an illness he has. The details were not published. The Pope has a habit of calling people he has heard about in the media and offering his thoughts.
Sidney Crosby’s last minute addition to Team Canada has been a treat for hockey fans. Today (May 1, 2015) he scored on a penalty shot with 23 seconds left in regulation time to top off a 6-1 win for Canada over Latvia in the opening game at the world hockey championship for both teams in Prague. Crosby got the call this week following the Pittsburgh Penguins’ first-round playoff loss. He also got an assist today and welded a potent line with Nathan MacKinnon and Jason Spezza. “It was pretty good,” said Crosby, who returns to the world tourney after nine years. “We skated well and generated some good chances.” Spezza led the attack with two goals and an assist and was named player of the game for Canada.
Goalers, goalies, netminders and custodians of the shinny net should make it down to the Leaside arena tomorrow (Saturday, May 2, 2015) where try-outs are being held for the Leaside Flames.
There’s a few more shots on the Facebook page. Get that espresso brewing. We’re on our way.
This is a complete summary of the incident occurring on the day of Freddie Gray’s arrest in Baltimore and the charges laid. Story is told mostly through the words of impressive City attorney Mosby
A female jewel thief working with another woman put a gun to the head of an 11-year-old child during a robbery and pulled the trigger several times. No one knows why the gun did not fire. The terrified daughter of the store owner escaped injury except for the awful memory of the incident. Earlier in the stick up, the gun was fired at the owner — and it blew a hole in a door. He was unhurt. The crime unfolded last summer at Asia Gold 1510 Steeles Ave West in Vaughan. The violent encounter netted the thieves little. York Region are Police are to get attention on the case. They feel these thieves must have talked about the crime to others. Pictures
Forest Hill Falcons meet 53 Division Coppers
The 53 Division Facebook page has pictures of the recent tilt between The Forest Hill Falcons hockey boys and what appears to be an unsorted squad of 53 Division coppers. Good fun. Minimal bragging by the police that they won 5-4. Minimal bragging is enough. 53 Facebook pictures
So Mr and Mrs. South Bayview, how does a wall battery that stores power from any source — the grid or solar — sound to you? This concept has been given new interest by Tesla Energy, an off-shoot of the car company. It is designed to “smooth out” the ups and down of power flow and particularly to give you power when the wires go down. That’s what Hydro One calls going off grid. The Tesla concept raises again the enormously sensible idea of homes that are semi-independent of Big Hydro. Imagine the peace of mind and sheer convenience during something like the ice storm of 2013? So much more sensible than ugly windmills marching across Southwestern Ontario.
Peter Wallace
Peter Wallace is slated to become the City of Toronto’s new manager. He will replace Joe Pennachetti who has retired. Mr.Wallace is a former secretary of the cabinet of the provincial cabinet. He reportedly was able to speak to the police about plans by some to erase the contents of computers in the Premier’s office following exposure of the Hydro plants scandal. Mr. Wallace retired as head of the Ontario bureaucracy last year after more than 30 years working for the province. Since then, according to the Globe and Mail, he has been a visiting fellow with the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance. While serving as Ontario’s top bureaucrat, Mr. Wallace repeatedly warned the Liberal government its plan for balancing the budget would require significant program cuts. He has been quoted as saying that the government’s debt reduction targets were so ambitious “it’s not even funny. … More directly, this is more gravy than [Toronto mayor Rob] Ford even promised to look for.”
