The weather for Wednesday night and early Thursday will be clear but cold. A low of minus 9º Centigrade is forecast. A cold weather alert has bee issued by the City to check on those who may need help.
Nottinghamshire cobbler Dave Lee is back in business at a craft he loves, thanks to surgeons who replaced his mangled thumb with his big toe. ITV
The Leaside Garden Society will meet Monday, February 13. The guest speaker will be Toronto naturalist Miles Hearn. His subject will be common weeds. The meeting convenes at 7:30 p.m. at the Leaside Public Library. Guests are welcome. Other LGS news includes the #Butterflyway Red Canoe recently placed at the corner of McRae Dr. and Rumsey Rd. It will be planted with Milkweed and other growth which help sustain the Monarch Butterfly and bees.
This Video Wheel catches up on Monday’s pedestrian accidents, a big meeting about the Ontario Line, hilarious New England-speakers selling the Hyundai and a 4-year-old Winnipeg boy who has made his own album.
There are now 19 cases of possible coronavirus infection in Canada and one confirmed case — a man in isolation at Sunnybrook HSC. Federal authorities say 19 others are being checked for apparent symptoms and because of their travel history.
Ryerson, McMaster, Durham College target of phony virus scare
Three Ontario universities and colleges are warning students and the public of fake notices circulating, which supposedly report positive novel coronavirus cases on each of the institution’s campuses. They are Ryerson, McMaster and Durham College. “Ryerson University is aware that there are fake social media posts alleging that students have been admitted to hospital with the coronavirus today. There are no cases of coronavirus at Ryerson,” the university tweeted on Monday, referencing an image circulating online that claims that two students have tested positive for the virus.
The wife of the Wuhan traveller who arrived home in Toronto with the coronavirus infection is also in isolation for the disease. She is at the couple’s home while tests continue to confirm that she and her husband do indeed have the virus. “Since arriving in Toronto with her husband, this individual has been in self-isolation,” a statement from the provincial government says. The two landed in Toronto January 22.
As most cell owners know, it is possible to transfer your number to a new phone at another phone company with a simple request. Guess what? Anyone who knows your number can ask to have your account moved too. Everything is delivered to the thief’s account. What a great age in which we live.
A man in his 50s who travelled to Toronto from Wuhan, China earlier this week is now in isolation at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. As heard in this City News report, Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, says the case is considered “presumptive positive” until the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg finds the same positive results as the tests conducted in Toronto.
A woman has surrendered 97 cats she kept in a two-bedroom apartment on Huron St. in Guelph because she was being evicted from the unit. A report in Guelph Today indicates the landlord had acted because of the damage done to the plumbing system by kitty litter being poured down the drain. He told GT it would cost $20,000 to clean and make repairs to the apartment.
A car owner has lost the vehicle and a pet dog after leaving the 2006 silver BMW X3 (licence plate BYXX 637) with the motor running outside a convenience store about 11:20 p.m. last night at McCowan Rd and Eglinton Ave. The dog is a young female tan coloured Black Mouth Cur weighing 60lbs.
