The federal transportation minister Lisa Raitt has endorsed John Tory for mayor. That’s nice for Mr. Tory and particularly so because the endorsement comes from a woman. He is dealing with the John-Tory-is-out-touch-with-women cadre that couldn’t like Tory short of a sex-change, it seems. Ms Rait is from neaby Halton and has had lots to say about how everyone can like and be  unified by John Tory. 

Oh gee. Forgive us for smiling behind our hand but this linked story about how to avoid social media regret reminds us of the time fathers used to “have a talk” with their sons.  Maybe they still do. The first generation of  Internet users had to learn that email was forever. The words lie on a server owned by God knows who and it doesn’t matter if you beg the recipeint to destroy the message — it still lives on and on. Now it is even easier to let loose the unfinished judgement of youth on Twitter and whatever. Before social media, we were taught things like not to tilt our chairs at dinner and of course to stay fully dressed when someone had a camera at a party. Fast Company

There are reports of patients with symptoms and a history sufficiently of concern that they are under watch in hospital around Canada today. Such stories comes from Edmonton, Ottawa and Belleville. In most of these cases the authorities seem to think it is unlikely this dsiease had been contracted but the isolation is part of the prevention process.  Ebola leads 

Two toddlers sneaked behind tapes and got into a bouncy castle that was not open to the public. They trapped inside the playhouse when a gust of win swept the it as much as 30 feet in the air and then sent it crashing to the ground. The two New Hampshire brothers, 2 and 3 years old, were both hospitalized, with the younger boy in critical condition. The toddlers climbed into the bouncy house while it was in a restricted area of Sullivan Farm, in Nashua, that was supposed to be off limits to the attendees of the festival. Witnesses said they saw the bouncy house fly up in the air before it came crashing down in a neighboring orchard. It seems to a warningagain that these popular toys need complete grounding and adult supervision. Previous — Flying bouncy castle hurts kids 

An underground fire has plunged blocks of downtown Calgary into darkness and the power authority, Emmax, says it doubts power will be restored in less than four days.  Residents and businesses will remain without power in the critical urban hub following damage to wires and cables. Enmax has shut down power to a large swath of downtown, from 4th Avenue to 7th Avenue S.W. and 4th Street to 11th Street S.W., as crews repair the damage. It will take a minimum of four days to repair the damage and get power back online, Enmax reported.

Prime Minister Harper has called a by-election for November 17, 2015 to replace the late Jim Flaherty in the riding of Whitby-Oshawa.  The Ontario riding has been vacant since Mr. Flaherty’s death in April, There will also be an election in the Alberta riding of Yellowhead which was vacated last month when former MP Rob Merrifield quit to take a job as Alberta’s envoy to Washington.

Health officials in the U.S. insist that someone made a mistake in order for the women caregiver to contract Ebola from her patient.  They call it a “breach in protocol” but its a mistake. Somehow the full protection gear this woman wore as she looked after the late Thomas Eric Duncan was compromised. The experts on the scene in Dallas at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital are not sure who let it happen or how it happened. It may have been the woman herself. Or not. It is possible to touch the outside of the protection gear when it is removed. It may have been contaminated. It is a disturbing additional mystery and concern for the authorities as they work to keep the virus isolated. Thomas Frieden, chief of the Centre for Disease Control, said his agency will investigate. “At some point there was a breach in protocol,” Frieden said. “That breach in protocol resulted in this infection.”