Aerial shot from CP24 helicopter shows workmen at Toronto Hydro Bridgman Transformer Station on Davenport Road as they try to figure out what has happened. Officials have said that there was a loss of supply after a  loud explosion hit the station about 10.30 a.m.  That was followed by a power failure across a large section of midtown. A positive sign is that engineers say they hope to have the power on again at around 1 p.m. according to a statement tweeted at noon. The outages are in an area bounded by Eglinton, Wellesley, Spadina and Yonge. 8000 customers affected although this figure may be deceiving because it counts customer accounts, not people. Josh Matlow (Ward 22) says he has been in touch with Hydro, see link to his statement. Cam Woolley has reported that there was apparently no fire or visible damage at the Bridgman TS. @HydroOne crews are on site: Toronto Hydro (@TorontoHydro)  February 13, 2015  Matlow statement

PC Brenda Dolenc of 53 Division Community Response Unit is seen delivering some much needed warm clothing in recent hours from the TPS Coat Drive to local homeless. Hard to imagine this man could survive a night on this sidewalk. In a different time, before human rights police had authority to take such persons into custody as “vagrants”. It was demeaning perhaps, but not as inconvenient as dying. 

Automaker will invest $560 million in Ingersoll plant which currently makes the best selling Chevrolet Equinox SUV. This will tool up the plant for the re-modeled version of the same popular vehicle. It is a case where the low price of oil means jobs in Ontario. Cars made in Ingersoll with the 80-cent Canadian dollar  only need to be shipped 150 miles to make GM a nice bonus. And the local pay cheques represent money that will find its way to Toronto. Globe and Mail

A Valentine’s Day feature sponsored by the Daily Mail newspaper has found that a love letter written by Johnny Cash to his wife June in 1994 is judged by readers the greatest such missive of all time. Writers today are recalling Cash’s rather stoic image in the context of this letter revealing a deeply romantic soul. His relationship with wife June Carter Cash was chronicled in the movie ‘Walk the Line,’ as well as ‘Anchored in Love,’ a book written by their son, John Carter Cash. The letter was written to mark June’s birthday and reads in part: “Once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met.” Cash wrote while he was in Odense, Denmark. “You’re the object of my desire, the #1 Earthly reason for my existence.” The sweet letter has been voted the greatest love letter of all time by the readers of the Daily Mail in the U.K., topping romantic missives from Napolean, Richard Burton, Beethoven, King Henry VIII and John Keats.  See the note and read it here.