The Greater Toronto Hockey league has voted to ban body checking from the Bantam A category of players ranging in age from 13 to 17. CBC is reporting that the ban will be phased in over a four-year period starting with the younger players. CBC reports that league members voted 60 percent in favour of the ban.

There are complicated explanations to explain why you may feel crummy for a day or two after setting the clock forward. Not everyone does, by the way. But look, just go to bed as early as you can. Here are some tips

• Avoid sleepiness on Sunday by getting to bed at a reasonable hour Saturday.
• Get some exercise on Saturday to ensure you sleep well that night.
• Avoid caffeine and excess alcohol for four to six hours before bedtime, since both can disrupt sleep.
• Avoid bright light before bed, including TV screens and handheld devices.
• Sleep in Sunday morning if you like, but by no more than an hour.
• If you need to take a nap Sunday afternoon, that’s OK, but make sure it’s not too close to bedtime.
• For parents of small kids, start making the transition a few nights ahead of time, moving bedtime ahead by 15 minutes each night.

Eerie spectacle as CN freight train burns near Gogama

Several cars have caught fire after a CN Rail derailment Northern Ontario. Residents have been advised to stay indoors and avoid consuming water from local sources. OPP said 10 cars derailed four kilometres southwest of Gogama and there were no initial reports of injuries. Gogama is located 580 kilometres north of Toronto, 191 km north of Sudbury and 114 km south of Timmins.

Former East York mayor and Member of Parliament Alan Redway will be signing his book Governing Toronto: Bringing Back the City That Worked this afternoon  at the Walter Stewart Library at 170 Memorial Park Ave in East York. The book contrasts today’s post-amalgamation metropolis with the well-remembered “Metro Toronto” in which a number of separate municipalities shared a senior government. That period lasted from 1954 to 1998. The reception will go from 2 to 4 p.m.

Cell phone video has emerged of Harrison Ford piloting his engineless vintage plane down onto the California golf course where he crashed yesterday. The video is quite graphic with commentary by golfers watching him in the sky. It is said today that Ford was given his first medical aid by doctors who were playing a round. First time it would be good to learn your doctor was on the course.

TO’s first movie house, the Theatorium, in 1906. The customers posed for the shot.

Here’s why Twitter is a good thing. Thousands of people who could not tell you what day this City was incorporated are now history smarties thanks to the Hashtag TO181. Take a look. There’s lots of action there. Seriously, Toronto the Good was stamped, sealed and delivered on March 6, 1834 and took the name Toronto at that time. It is a first nations word meaning meeting place. Toronto began as the Town of York, a community which grew up around Fort York beginning in 1793.  At incorporation, the City had a population of less than 30-thousand inhabitants.   A highlight of the City’s first century includes gas-fed street lamps which were installed in 1841.  In 1849, King’s College was renamed the University of Toronto.  In 1861 streetcar service began but they were horse-powered vehicles in the most literal sense of the term.  The first Eaton’s store opened in 1869.  The CNE was first held in 1879 and in 1893 Union Station (not the present building) opened.

There’s an important reminder from Wildcat Nation that the fourth game of the team’s best of five Provincial Women’s Hockey League finals is Saturday night at Leaside arena. The Wildcats won a big one Wednesday defeating the Mississauga Chiefs 3-1 to stay alive The series stands at two games to one for the Chiefs. Game time is set for 6.40 p.m.

Officers at 53 Division’s are warning South Bayview merchants in the Yonge Street, Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Bayview Ave. area of South Bayview about a rash of bogus $100 U.S. bills. Merchants and shoppers are asked to be alert and report suspicious looking American money to 53 Division. If you think you have received one of these fraudulent bills, or have any information, please contact 53 Division @ 416-808-5300, report it to Toronto Police Service @ 416-808-2222 or Crime Stoppers @ 222-TIPS.

The showpiece transit project all the way to the City Above Toronto is turning into the Disaster Beneath Contempt.  It was revealed today that analysis of the Spadina subway extension, with its terminus at the Vaughan City Centre, is two years late and more than $400 million over budget. It was supposed to be built for $2.5 billion and open this year. Today Mayor John Tory was feeling the heat, even though he could hardly be blamed for whatever man-sized sloppiness caused this embarrassment. He says he is furious and vows to review of all “mismanaged” city projects. He even talked of stopping the project at York University and finishing the subway to Vaughan later. That remark seemed to gore a different ox at Queen’s Park, where Transportation Minister Stephen  Del Duca represents the riding of Vaughan. He said no such delay would occur.   CP24 Twitter 

This video is beautiful in a number of ways. It shows a touching series of human contacts through what is essentially an X-ray view and then surprises onlookers at the gender of the people they were seeing. It was done in Santa Monica, California, which brings us to the weather and the beach. Yeah. Beautiful. The video is said to have viewed some nearly 29 million times on YouTube.