The design team, Joanna, Rick, Karen, Heather and Margaret, tweeted a wonderful photo of their arrangement on display at the 2015 Canada Blooms. This year’s theme is “Horsepower”. According to the Canada Blooms website, the festival was “founded in 1996 by the Garden Club of Toronto and Landscape Ontario. Today, it is the largest flower and garden festival in the country, celebrating the very best in Canadian gardening and floral design!”. Canada Blooms runs from March 13th-22nd, 2015 at the Direct Energy Centre in Exhibition Place.

Leaside Garden Society's entry at Canada Blooms has lots of Horsepower! pic.twitter.com/to8pSidvMg

— Leaside Gardeners (@LeasideGardener) March 12, 2015

Remarkable sequence sees his friends digging in avalanche snow in the hope that somehow they will find their Australian friend James Mort. This occurred in January at Les Crosets on the French-Swiss border.

See capacity figures for these bins at bottom of the post

The new cost of garbage bins in Toronto reminds us once again of the entire chain of trash creation from elaborate packaging to shoving it under the meadows of Ontario. Ugh! Toronto is still burying garbage in landfill, a doubtful act which many would call an abuse of the fertile soil. A lot of people on the staff at City Hall think we should be moving to Energy from Waste, the well-proven and safe system now at work in Durham Region. At home, it seems we can use a smaller bin to the save taxes. It’s up to you. The new higher prices set in this week’s budget are shown in the image above. The sizes need a capacity figure so here they are: Small hold 75 litres, medium 120 litres, large 240 litres and extra large 360 litres 

There was a call to a location at Bayview Heights Drive and Heath Street East this evening about a suspected natural gas leak. The fire department has investigated and found no leak. It has cleared the site.

This short video shows the Duchess of Cambridge at her engaging best and happy at whatever the stage of her pregnancy. It looks like maybe seven or eight months. She was visiting the set of Downton Abbey and there were many fine photo ops.

The Leaside arena was jumping tonight with continuing action on both pads. The new rink was booked right up courtesy of the North York Hockey League. The 7.50 p.m. game was looking good shortly after the opening face off. Vaughan Rangers battled it out with the Leaside Atom Blacks.

The world is imperfect, why not our produce? Canadian Press

Toronto Police are thanking the public as they report that 14-year-old Jordyn Lyons has been returned home safely. She was missing for ten days. from the Midland Avenue and Lawrence Avenue area.

Ontario is now thought to be measles-free but in Quebec the number of cases has mushroomed from 32 to 119. A serious breach in efforts to protect school children occurred in the town of Joliette when a student who had the disease infected dozens of unvaccinated kids in a single day. All of Quebec’s cases have occurred among unvaccinated children and adults. In Ontario the health department has been counting the days from the last outbreak and now concludes that the incubation period for any more cases as expired. That’s 21 days at a maximum. Unless there are unreported cases somewhere, the outbreak should be over, says Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins. In Joliette there are 114 students and 51 staff members at the school who have been identified as not fully vaccinated. Health officials said that parents and staff members have been notified of the exposure and that vaccinations will be offered at the school today (Thursday,March 12, 2015). Those who deny vaccination will be required to stay home for two weeks. All 119 cases are connected to a measles outbreak in California’s Disneyland, which began in December 2014, according to the California Department of Public Health.

A proposed new tower at the corner of Yonge and Bloor streets has 80 floors — on paper at least — and is ready to become the City’s second highest building after the CN Tower. It will be pricey too and one price to be paid will be the view from St. Clair and Mt. Pleasant. The developer of the former Stollerys site showed off renderings at a community meeting on Wednesday with a 318-metre tower. The plan calls for 72 levels of apartments on top of an eight-level luxury shopping mall, and 10 stories underground, at a total cost of $1 billion. Developer Sam Mizrahi has called his new monument The One. (Oh my. He’s The One). The design is by Foster Partners and Toronto’s Core Architects. Some have noted that external steel skeleton. Keep in mind it would run all the way up to the clouds. It is reminiscent of the first so called exoskeletons built in Hong Kong during the 1980s.years.