There has been a noisy but peaceful demonstration by several thousand truck convoy protests on and around Parliament Hill Saturday. What tomorrow and beyond may bring is not clear. Many truckers have said they will demonstrate all week but this may be bravado or wishful thinking.

There’s another cold weekend ahead with forecasts for daytime temperatures of minus 11° and minus 6° Celsius on Saturday and Sunday. Environment Canada has issued a wind chill warning for those who are going to be outside for very long. On the bright side, Saturday will be sunny.

Fred Arsenault

In Holland with the First Canadian Army

A greatly loved local figure who fought with the First Canadian Army in Holland in 1944-45 has died at Sunnybrook Veterans Centre. Born March 6, 1920, Fred Arsenault was only weeks short of his 102nd birthday. Obituary

• Remembering A War Hero
• How a birthday card callout for a WW II veteran turned into something much bigger
• Outpouring of thanks to WW II vet as birthday approaches

Car thefts, and particularly the theft of Land Rovers, go on apace in Leaside. Hardly a morning passes without another report that these desirable SUVs made by Tata Motors of Mumbai, India, have disappeared from a local driveway.

Site of proposed tower in North Leaside

The Leaside Residents Association (LRA) has outlined the specifics of an outrageous plan to build a 25-storey mixed use building containing 288 residential units at the corner of Bayview Ave and Broadway Ave.

Weather forecasters seem all over the place with warnings of snow Monday afternoon and evening. There’s word of “as much as 10 cm of snow possible in some places” but then an estimate that “peak snowfall rates of 1 to 2 cm” might fall.

Snowfall associated with a clipper system will begin along the Lake Huron shorelines and southwestern Ontario around noon on Monday. Snow will gradually move into the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) from west to east just after midday and will continue falling through the afternoon and evening hours. For areas east of Toronto through Durham County and including, Pickering, Oshawa and communities towards Cobourg, these regions will see higher snowfall rates through the late afternoon and early evening. Reduced visibility due to higher snowfall rates and slick roads will make travel more difficult along this stretch of the 401

Meanwhile, everyone is getting used to a world where is no space. It’s that Canadian state of things where the term “snow removal” is simply foolish. There is no place to put snow where it doesn’t already sit a mile high.

January’s enduring deep freeze has caused concern among many Leaside residents for the welfare of a local man experiencing homelessness known to them simply as John. A long thread on Facebook describes him as a humble and decent man who wants to stay in the area he knows (up and down Laird) and won’t go to shelters for his own reasons. This thread has many comments from kind-hearted Leaside friends with suggestions on how to ensure John survives the cold.

Photo by @liamtakesaphoto

Toronto Fire Service has extinguished a three-alarm fire at Nobel Auto Services on Danforth Rd near Warden Ave overnight. Two persons suffered minor injuries. The tweet below from Derek Craig shows ice-covered personnel who had to work in sub-zero weather.

Russian troops are massed on the border of Ukraine and the world wonders just much Vladimir Putin is willing to pay for his foolish expansionism.

Weaning kids away from peanut intolerance

It’s been reported already but the research goes on urgently at weaning very young kids to a successful life of enjoying peanuts

Bionic Nana hopes to see her grandchildren soon

A UK woman has been dubbed Bionic Nana by her grandchildren as she prepares to receive a so-called bionic eye at London’s Moorefield Eye Hospital. Odds are that the recent development will let her see them again.