Police say that a shooting incident in west-central downtown early Sunday occurred at an Airbnb condo rental. One woman is in critical condition and a man has less serious injuries after slugs starting flying about 1.20 a.m. near Portland and Wellington Sts. Police are trying to sort it out.
No winning ticket was sold for the $14 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. The guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Oct. 2 will be approximately $17 million.
Pope Francis has unveiled a statue by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz depicting migrants of different eras packed on a boat. The ceremony on Sunday morning in St. Peter’s Square marked the 105th World Day of Migrants and Refugees. The work is called Angels Unaware. It depicts 140 migrants and refugees from various historical periods including the Virgin Mary and Joseph, Italian migrants, Jews fleeing Nazi Germany and those from war-torn countries. It was requested by the Vatican’s Office of Migrants and Refugees and funded by the Rudolph P. Bratty Family Foundation of Markham.
Three people are injured, one without vital signs, at Kennedy Rd. and St. Clair Ave. Saturday night. The critically injured person is said to be a man in his 60s. Two cars collided at the intersection.
Man dead in North York shooting
A man, 26, is dead in a shooting in at a home near Sunnycrest and Rockford Roads, west of Bathurst Street, before 5:30 p.m. Saturday. The investigation is underway.
Car into a tree in Mississauga
A man in his 30s has been seriously injured after a collision in Mississauga Friday about 2:30 p.m. at Council Ring Road and Ash Row Road, east of Glen Erin Drive. Peel police said a vehicle crashed into a tree
Rene Zellweger plays Judy Garland in the much-anticipated film Judy released Friday. Then, Greta Thunberg and the honest concern for her well-being. Below that, a fascinating look into China’s elite Maoist academies, places where no child or teacher ever even murmur that dirty word, Democracy. Lastly, the final word on Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky, those sad and terrifying young killers from northern British Columbia.
No winning ticket was sold for the $55 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. There were also four Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each up for grabs, but none of them were won either. That means the jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Oct. 1 will grow to approximately $60 million, and six Maxmillion prizes will be offered.
Maurice Cody parents and kids had nice weather for the annual movie night Friday in the school playground. A few sprinkles were hardly noticed. The Disney animation Ralph Breaks the Internet was the feature. It was well-watched by many kids and some parents chatted (it must be revealed). But the adventures of Ralph, Vanellope Von Schweetz and others in the cyber-game wonderland known as Litwak’s Arcade rolled on regardless.
Plot: Over the last six years, Wreck-it Ralph and Vanellope Von Schweetz have stayed best friends and hang out after work in Litwak’s Arcade. Vanellope expresses how bored she has become of Sugar Rush’s tracks, so Ralph sneaks into the game and makes a new track for her. The arcade player fights Vanellope’s control, and causes the cabinet’s steering wheel to break off. As the company that made Sugar Rush is defunct, and the cost of a replacement wheel on eBay is too high, Litwak decides to ship Sugar Rush away. Ralph and Vanellope help to evacuate the game before it is unplugged, and with Felix and Calhoun’s help, find homes for all its citizens as a short term measure as they figure out how to save the game. After talking with Felix, Ralph decides to grab Vanellope and travel to the Internet via Litwak’s new Wi-Fi router.
Toronto Council will fight the provincial law that cut its size from 47 to 25 members all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. The City was given an incentive to make the appeal by a surprise split decision on the part of the Ontario Court of Appeal a week ago. Three justices relied on the Constitutional declaration that municipalities are “the creatures” of the provinces. Thus they ruled, Queen’s Park had an absolute right to enact the Better Local Government Act slicing Council essentially in half. But two judges roamed into the land of rights and concluded that the Ford government move, launched in the middle of an election campaign, was unconstitutional because it violated the rights of candidates.
Posts at #Climatestrike Toronto on Twitter show many tweets on the large demonstration at Queen’s Park. The Toronto school board gave students permission to be absent for the rally, and have asked teachers to avoid scheduling tests and other assessments on the rally day. Students at Bessborough School could be seen (& heard!) hosting their own strike around their schoolyard. Toronto Police Operations posted the map below with the following advice: #ClimateAction protest in #Toronto is happening today at noon, many people are expected to attend. @TorontoPolice officers are there and will have rolling road closures in place. From Queens Park along Wellesley to Bay. Bay to Queen. Queen to University. North to Queens Park
We care about our future and the future of our planet! @BessboroughEMS #climatestrikeTO pic.twitter.com/DtMvlP1N43
— Rachel Standing (@rachellstanding) September 27, 2019
Here are aerial shots of the #ClimateStrike happening in Toronto pic.twitter.com/f6l9Yj2cDY
— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) September 27, 2019
Upper left, Toronto’s Natalie Spooner and colleagues in Canada’s women’s hockey elite met members of the Toronto Leaside Wildcats at Westwood Arena last weekend. Spooner, Olympic medalist Nancy Marie-Poulin and national champion Loren Gabel were kicking off the Dream Gap Tour at Westwood Arena in Etobicoke. Etobicoke. Spooner said they drew strength from the Atom AA girls in the struggle to establish a professional hockey league in Canada.
Alison Jane
Upper right, Alison Jane has returned to Leaside United Church following an exciting tour to the UK with the choir of the Church of St. Peter and St. Simon on Bloor St. East. The choir visited both Gloucester and Chichester Cathedrals and joined in the services. “It was a remarkable experience to play the organs and sing in such beautiful spiritual spaces,” Alison has told her friends at LUC. Centre-right, the new storefront has been unveiled at 688 Mt. Pleasant, former location for so many years of DiSantis Men’s Hair Salon.
Leaside Station
Centre-left, a revealing new picture from Crosstown LRT of two new bridge cranes in the spacious Leaside Station as work continues. Lower-left, is an enormous Chrysler sedan from the early 60s seen in a Leaside lane by Rudy Limeback. Finally, make sure October 5 is marked on your calendar. The Bayview BIA Apple Fest is coming.
Climate Friday may unfold in ways predictable and unseen. But as urgent as the need for an environmental fix is the need not freeze in the dark. Hope we get it right. Next to that, a quiet Quebec laneway to the US border remains a kind of Grand Central Station for migrants from all over the world, says the CBC. Below at the right is news of McDonald’s PLT. Call it Big Plant. Finally, they’ve named the new UK climate research vessel after broadcaster and historian David Attenborough. The public had favoured Boaty McBoatface.
The Magical Aquarium Club at 1911 Kennedy Rd. has been fined $35,000 and ordered to hand over 26 Asian Arowana fish to the government after pleading guilty to unlawfully importing regulated live fish from Malaysia. Environment and Climate Change Canada learned of the shipment in December 2018, which occurred without an import permit. The fish are highly trade-restricted. They are sought after for use as pets and are considered by some cultures to bring good fortune.
