It’s very much outside the box for a coffee shop business like Starbucks to talk about delivering the drinks to your door but that’s what’s happening this weekend. Starbucks has announced plans for coffee and food delivery services. It would not seem to pay Starbucks to mount such a service but this may be the catch: the delivery will be available to Starbucks loyalty program members as part of a mobile order and pay app. What this means is that the coffee and food will be paid for in advance, maybe quite a lot in advance, with money loaded onto a card.  The scheme will launch nationwide next year. Will it do better than “lunch is ready?” Starbucks is good when it comes to coffee but many people would rather pay them to take the food away. CEO Howard Schultz called the service “e-commerce on steroids.” 

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt, 46, is scheduled to undergo surgery on Tuesday, November 4, 2014  to remove a “solid growth” on her ovaries. She says diagnostic imaging and blood tests suggest the growth is not cancerous, but she won’t know for sure until it is removed and analyzed.

A Tweet from Warren Kinsella has generated a lot of interest in just what if anything passed between Karen Stintz and John Tory at the time she stepped out of the race. Ms Stintz hustled onto CP24 to deny that she was offered money or anything else to quit the race. Her explanation of the “money” reference and “harmony dinners” seemed vague. One might draw from her remarks that Mr. Tory said he would help with what amounts to a passing of the hat for Ms. Stintz. At the time of her exit from the race, the South Bayview Bulldog did point out that cynics made a connection between the former Councillor’s interest in the commissionership of  the CFL and Mr. Tory’s history in that department. Of course there is no love lost between Tory and Kinsella after a life of political combat.

Tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time Nik Wallenda will risk his life again, This time his sky-high walk without a harness will take the 35-year-old heir to his daredevil family’s reputation will wire walk his way between Chicago’s Leo Burnett building and Marina City West Tower – a personal record incline of 16 degrees. Then he’ll put on the blindfold for the second crossing, between the two Marina City Towers. They call him crazy and the fans, while wishing him well, think they may see him die. The women commenting hate him because they say his son will see him die. (Sunday, November 2, 2014).  

From immigrant’s son to cultural icon to pariah, Mr. Brean announces.  He tells a story where the Ghomeshi fall seems as shocking to those who cared about his importance as that of RCAF Colonel Russell Williams, although the cases are very different of course. National Post

Ontario Premier Wynne has ended her trade trip to China in what is being heralded as nearly $1 billion in new investment in the province and the addition of some 1,800 jobs here. It is a welcome achievement and there will be eager interest in the details. One element is an agreement with  the Chinese telecom company Huawei to create up to 325 new jobs in the next five years. The premier is said to have squeezed in some sightseeing at the end of her trip, She took time for walk, if not a jog, along the very steep slopes of the walkways on the top of the Great Wall.  Government News Release