Police are asking public help in finding an 800-lb automatic traffic camera apparently stolen from near Jameson Ave and Queen St. West. The Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) system was set to go into action Wednesday snapping speeders and sending tickets for a single km/hr (or more) infraction. This device typically requires a hydraulic lift to remove it
A Kingston nail salon open less than ten days and supposedly under strict distancing rules has been the focus of 25 COVID-19 cases. The local MOH, Keiran Moore, has told the CBC that Binh’s Nail and Spa was operating without masks and no social distance plan. Six of the cases are staff, six are clients and the rest are their close contacts.
The Ministry of Health says Monday that an outbreak of 177 COVID-19 cases among Essex County migrant farmworkers has driven its 24-hour total of cases to 257. The good news is that there were just 80 cases elsewhere in the province. Once again widespread testing continues. Sunday local health officials and others completed more than 27,000 tests. Daily summaries
City Council was streaming questions to the police chief and others Monday for those with the stamina. City Council
That old tinkerer Henry Ford would be stunned to see the 2021 version of the pickup truck that bears his name. Reclining seats, a front seat that converts into an office and power plugs in the cargo bed powered by the engine. That’s so you operate an electric tool without hydro. Ford coined the name pickup truck and built the first one in 1925.
The Ministry of Health has counted 178 new cases of COVID-19 Sunday for the 24-hour period ending at midnight. This number creeps up a bit on recent counts but is still under 200 and seen as a sign the infection receding. Daily summaries
North Leaside homeowners on Thursfield Cres. are demanding that Metrolinx and its agent Crosslinx keep a promise to replace the huge swath of trees that was clear-cut to make way for the LRT. When work began, Metrolink promised that the original privacy of the ravine lots would be restored with new trees. But now it says that the use of polypropylene mesh to rebuild the sides of the ravine will not support the replacement of trees and that it plans to plant shrubs rather than trees. Leaside residents have started a petition calling for Metrolinx to keep its promise.
Brutal price paid by homeowners
The petition says the “ravine lot” status of homes on Thursfield Cres. has been compromised to the point they have lost all privacy at the rear of the properties. “The wholesale destruction of the greenspace has forever changed the habitat for birds and other wildlife. And the area is now exposed to traffic noise. The ravine view has been replaced with an unobstructed view of the Eglinton traffic,” says the petition. It’s a brutal price to pay for conscientious homeowners who chose this pleasant corner of the City in which to settle. The petition is targetting 1,500 signatures and is well on the way.
The Ontario Ministry of Health has found 160 new cases of COVID-19 in the province after a record-breaking 24-hours of testing ending at midnight. That’s up from 111 found the day before but continues the under-200 litmus test in a winning struggle to eliminate the infection here. Officials are heartened that it took a record 33,492 tests to find merely 160 cases. At least 91 of them are in the GTA with data for Toronto (56) and Peel (35) published. All daily summaries
Nature photographer Colin Mcconnell has posted another of his frequent Facebook galleries from walks in Leslieville. Always worth a look. FB
Air Canada and WestJet will start sitting passengers next to each and loading planes to the maximum following decisions by US airlines to do the same. The airline industry has been savaged by COVID-19 shutdowns and passenger fear of close contact with strangers. Both airlines had blocked the sale of adjacent seats in economy class. But the carriers said Friday that starting July 1 they will revert to health recommendations from the United Nation’s aviation agency and the International International Air Transport Association (IATA) trade group.
The City has announced that automatic traffic cameras will begin issuing fines on Monday, July 6. It is an unforgiving system, sending you a fine for even a single kilometre over the limit infraction. See the City News report for all the levels and what it will cost offenders. As many will know, there is an ATC on Bessborough Dr. near the public school and not far from St. Anselm Catholic School. There is another on Brownlow Ave. near Eglinton Ave. as well as a location at Overlea Blvd at Thorncliffe Park Drive. Speeding traffic on Overlea beware. Here is an interactive map to help you stay alert.
