The Cenotaph at Old City Hall was vandalized overnight. The words “Ye broke faith” were scrawled on the monument. The words are reminiscent of the World War I poem In Flanders Fields written by Canadian medical officer John McCrae. The poem became an anthem to the dead in that war and others. It inspired the use of the poppy as a form of remembrance. Police are investigating. Part of In Flanders Fields reads:

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Vandalism at Old City Hall/City News Bert Dandy

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, physician and poet

18 Keewatin Ave/Nathara Imenes @nathara_imenes

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Fire has damaged the home at 18 Keewatin Ave. just east of Yonge St. early Tuesday. Flames broke through the roof of the three-storey stucco home as fire crews arrived shortly after 6 a.m. They rang a second and third alarm. No injuries have been reported.  The TFS said the fire started at the rear of the residence and worked its way to the front.

Mystery writer Peter Robinson will be at the Sleuth of Baker Street book store at 907 Millwood Rd. on Tuesday (November 12) from 6 to 8 p.m. to sign copies of his latest Inspector Banks novel Many Rivers to Cross. Previously on Peter Robinson

Don Cherry has been fired from his role at Coach’s Corner on Sportsnet over his comments about immigrants who don’t wear the Remembrance Day poppy. Cherry targeted immigrants in his hometown of Mississauga. “You people … you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple of bucks for a poppy or something like that,” Cherry said, with Coach’s Corner co-host Ron McLean looking on. “These guys paid for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada, these guys paid the biggest price.” Cherry is 85. He helped create the concept of Coach’s Corner at the CBC 37 years ago.

Cherry unrepentant

Cherry told Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun that he is untroubled by the dismissal. “I have just learned I’ve been fired by Sportsnet for comments made on Coach’s Corner Nov. 9,” Cherry told the Sun writer in a phone interview. “No problem.” Cherry added: “I know what I said and I meant it. Everybody in Canada should wear a poppy to honour our fallen soldiers.” He said his words were not racial or bigoted but patriotic and respectful of our troops. Sportsnet story.

Police have named two people, a man and a woman, found October 26 at about 12:30 noon in an apartment at 141 Davisville Ave. at Pailton Crescent. A release states that Bethlehem Geleta, 22, of Toronto had been strangled. The man, Aboma Daba, 30, of Toronto, was suffering from what is described as trauma. They were both pronounced dead at hospital. The deaths are not being treated as suspicious and there are no outstanding suspects.

Police have released these pictures of a man wanted in connection with a 4.20 a..m. stabbing last Friday at Yonge and Elm Sts. There was a fight and one man was cut many times, says the TPS. The suspect is described as white, 6′ to 6’2″, 20-30, thin build, and was wearing a blue winter jacket with fur on the hood, blue jeans with rips on the left leg, a black baseball hat with a flat white rim and white logo, and black shoes.

A FB post tells of the theft of license plates off a vehicle on Donegall Drive at 3.22 in the afternoon last Friday. FB

There’s anger and dismay among many at Don Cherry’s careless slide into a finger-pointing rant at immigrants over the use of the Remembrance Day poppy.

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