The first annual general meeting of the newly-formed Midtown Yonge Business Improvement Area is scheduled for Monday, February 23, 2015. The executive will be chosen at that time. More information will be available in a few days. The new BIA fills a gap among the many BIAs on the long street. Midtown runs north from the Kay Gardner-Belt Line trail at Merton Street to the Soudan/Berwick Avenues boundary.
Mayor visits Leaside Select Hockey Tourney
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Mayor Tory and Councillor Jon Burnside visited the Leaside Arena this afternoon (Sunday, February 8, 2015) as the Select Hockey Tournament was booming right along on its final day. In the main picture, Mr. Tory drops the puck for one of the championship games. At top from left, Tory and Burnside with Laura, a volunteer at the Cops and Kids Pro Action League from Flemingdon Park, centre the mayor has picture taken with a young Leaside Flame and on the right enjoys some of Andy Elder’s Brisket Chili. These pictures were taken by the mayor’s office and there are many more on Twitter.
Toronto a Smart City? Not til we swab the subway
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Toronto Weather: February’s descent into hell
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Forecasters say we will get a messy mix of rain and possibly freezing ran Sunday night. It is not unexpected at this time of year but neither is a spirit-lifting thaw, however brief. Well forget that. By the measure of temperatures predicted for the second month of 2015 it would appear February is on its own private descent into hell. We will be well under freezing until the end of the month it appears, with the mercury plunging to 14 below next Sunday, February 15, 2015.
Updated list of ice time availability at arena
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Leaside Memorial Gardens Arena has published an updated list of some daytime and evening availability for the remainder of our Fall/Winter Season. LMGA
B.C. court finds Natpost libeled Green Party MLA
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NBC anchor Brian Williams forced to take leave
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Wisey’s has new store, new scone in planning
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Wisey’s Pies and Bakehouse has plans to open a second location in the Roncesvalles neighborhood this Spring. The dynamic young company run by New Zealander Gary Wise and his Canadian wife Karen has become part of the lives of many Leasiders since the first shop opened in June 2014 at Eglinton Ave E and Laird Drive. You read about it first in the South Bayview Bulldog. Now the couple has teamed up with friends Anthony Spinley (another Kiwi) and his partner Jen Orenstein. This good news is transmitted from the Hawkes Bay area of New Zealand where Gary and Karen are catching some rays and conducting baking R&D on new products and varieties of pies at the Wiseys NZ bakery in Napier. That business is managed by Gary’s brother. Gary says that the perfected items will also be made at Wiseys in Toronto when he returns in March. Particularly, Gary notes a new scone recipe. So you heard it here first. The new scone is called the DOC — an acronym that stands for Date, Orange, Cinnamon. We are told it is divine. Gary also has an imaginative idea for a “bakers’ exchange” program by which well-known NZ bakers could work in Toronto and a Canadian baker would work at a Hawkes Bay Bakery in exchange. Wisey’s Pies and Bakehouse is up and running everyday even though the boss is away. Today’s output was right up to standard. (Saturday, February 7, 2015).
See why horse stuck in a bathtub is no problem
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Phantom likes to dance around between mouthfuls of oats at the bathtub which is used as a feeder on the California farm where she lives. But her terpsichore made her topple into the tub. Horses are apparently unable to climb out of bathtubs. But there is a very simple solution which you will see on the video.
Does Ottawa plan to privatize Canada Post?
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The linked story from Hamilton raises this prospect and recalls the 2013 privatization of the Royal Mail in the United Kingdom. Hamilton is a hotbed of resistance to the end of door-to-door delivery. City council seems to be in daily conflict with the crown corporation over the cost and other specifics of remote mailbox installations. Matta Busby
It’s Saturday and COBs Bread has re-opened
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If this is Saturday, COBs Leaside must be open with its new shop, wonderful goodies and its Hot Cross Bun promotion. There will also be a COBs gift bag giveaway to three lucky winners. See you there. Hot Cross Buns
Measles “currently circulating” in City warning
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A sixth case of measles has been confirmed in Toronto. St. Joseph’s Health Centre announced that a patient who was in its emergency department from January 27 to 29 has been diagnosed. Two children, both under two years and three adults in the Toronto area were diagnosed with measles earlier this week. The St. Joseph’s patient was born before 1970. A challenge for health authorities is that there appears to be no known connection between the cases which, officials say, means measles is “currently circulating” in the city. Another case, number seven, was confirmed earlier this week in the Niagara region. Measles is a difficult disease to control because is it is so easily transmissible — contagious in fact — and it can be communicated by a patient before he or she shows symptoms. CBC News described a letter sent to patients at St. Joseph’s warning them to watch for symptoms until February 19, 2015. The good part is that this outbreak of measles has not broken out in the school system. The boards of education have sent letters home warning parents that if there is an outbreak children without proper vaccination “will not be allowed to attend school until the outbreak is over.” Shelley Deeks of the provincial health department says 30-something adults should be on the alert for themselves. “We have people who are about 35 to 40 that probably only received one dose,” of the vaccine. So there is a differing level of susceptibility.” Deeks says she suspects there will be more cases. Two doses of measles vaccine provide full protection against mumps, measles and rubella for over 95 per cent of people, according to Toronto Public Health. Officials say anyone unsure of their immunizations should contact their health care provider. There are no confirmed measles cases at St. Joseph’s, according to the statement from Dr. Mark Downing, head of the infectious diseases division. Globe writer rails against superstition