Complaints on Twitter that it was taking too long to lay down a new sidewalk at Sutherland Drive and Hanna Rd. seem to have been heard somewhere. The concrete went down Wednesday. Sidewalks take time, Inglewood original and gimme Service
All children aboard this smoking school bus on the Gardiner Expressway were safely removed in noon hour traffic Wednesday. Video shared with CityNews shows the bus traveling slowly in the right lane leaving a trail of thick white smoke in its path. Two fire trucks, sirens blaring, are following it. More later.
York Regional Police have released a video of their interrogation of a woman driver on August 2 that recalls the folly of trying to reason with a drunk. The woman drove into a fast-food drive-through, stopped and refused to move the car when employees asked her to clear the lane. The ensuing conversation between the woman and police is both sad and funny. Here’s part of it.
“I wasn’t driving, I was just ordering some food,” says the sloshed woman.
“How did the vehicle get here,” the officer asks.
“I don’t know, I was just ordering some food,” is the reply.
“So there’s no one else here,” the officer says.
“No, but I was just getting some food,” the woman replies.
Never argue with a drunk is good advice.
McDonald’s is responding to the substitute-meat burger vogue by making a “suite of burger improvements” to its all-beef burgers. They include a shorter top bun by three millimetres, an additional 10 millilitres of Big Mac Sauce to Big Macs and a reduction in its grill capacity by two patties. It says the adjustments have been in development for several years. McDonald’s Canada, along with McDonald’s Australia, is taking the lead on the rollout. Interestingly, McDonald’s is concerned it has been squeezing the juice out of its burgers. Now it won’t squeeze so much.
The Danforth Business Improvement Area will host the 2019 Taste of the Danforth street festival beginning Friday through Sunday with road closures starting at 10 a.m. Friday and ending at 3 a.m. Monday. Danforth Avenue between Broadview Avenue and Jones Avenue will be closed to all traffic
Leaside resident Wilmar Kortleever has been observing police activity at the Bayview Ave corners north of Eglinton where drivers continue to make illegal turns during rush hour. Mr. Kortleever notes that some (a few, many?) of the drivers eager to slip in and out of the neighborhood illegally are residents of Leaside. No doubt they are among those who voted against the outrageous idea of permanent concrete blockades (or jersey barriers) at these intersections. Leaside jersey barriers archives
The province plans to offload funding for commercial blue box pick up to businesses, or so it seems based on this City News report. As it stands, homeowners pay taxes to Toronto for regular pickup of recyclables. A right, a child is bitten by a bear at the Vancouver Zoo when she got too close to the cage. At least, that’s how zoo officials explain it. Below that, two reports on Canadian tennis stars playing in Montreal and Toronto.
It’s a special construction method seen all over Toronto. At left, is the rubble left at Hanna Rd. and Sutherland Drive. This mess has been there a month. It’s because one crew wrecks the old sidewalk and an entirely different one lays the new walkway. Top right, a fine old Inglewood Drive original is getting an addition near the corner of MacLennan Ave. Center-right, the sign of Service Ontario reminds us that a new storefront has opened in the Flemingdon Park Shopping Plaza at 747 Don Mills Rd. Enter off Gateway Blvd and you will see it between the Vietnamese restaurant and the Vape store. Centre-left, a tweeted photo of how Toronto’s modern refuse bins just don’t seem to get emptied before the trash is all over the sidewalk. This one is at Davisville Ave. and Yonge St. Lower left, they say Nerpy’s hot sauce will thrill you or kill you. The Toronto-made condiment is now at Andy Elder’s Grilltime on Laird Drive. Finally, it’s never too early to make note of the Northlea corn roast coming up in September.
Canadian Press reports that the Toronto Real Estate Board GTA home price index was up 4.4 percent in July as the supply of properties for sale tightened and the number of sales jumped 24.3 percent from July last year. The TREB said Tuesday the overall average selling price for properties in the Greater Toronto Area was up 3.2 percent year-over-year to $806,755. The number of properties sold increased to 8,595 from 6,916, with sales of all four categories of housing up by double digits.
St. Monica’s Catholic Church at 44 Broadway Ave. opposite North Toronto Collegiate will divide its property at the site to permit construction of a 44-storey condominium and a modern new church in front of it. The plan is in the hands of builder Collecdev. The current church was built in 1959. Contents of the church such as statues and stained glass windows will be incorporated in the building. The plan calls for severing the property into two and selling one half to Collecdev. The money generated from the sale will be used to build a new, $17-million modern church in front of the condo.
Officials at London’s Heathrow Airport and a union representing 4,000 workers have averted a two-day strike at Europe’s busiest airport during the peak of summer travel season. The strike, which had already been called off for Monday, will also be suspended Tuesday so that the workers, including security guards, firefighters, engineers and drivers, can vote on a package offering improved pay. Heathrow and Unite the Union both confirmed the news on their Twitter accounts; however, the union said it was keeping its planned strike for Aug. 23-24 on the calendar until it learns the result of the vote
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Canadian basketball players apparently have no interest in playing for Canada. Along with Andrew Wiggins of the Minnesota Timberwolves, who already was ruled out, several other prominent Canadian players won’t play for Canada, including Denver guard Jamal Murray, New York Knicks rookie RJ Barrett, Cleveland’s Tristan Thompson, Dwight Powell of the Dallas Mavericks, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of Oklahoma City, and Nickeil Alexander-Walker of the New Orleans Pelicans. CBC
