Superintendent of Education Diana Panagiotopoulos will join TDSB board staff at Hodgson Middle School, 282 Davisville, on Tuesday (today) to update families and the community on construction of the new Davisville Public and Spectrum Alternative School. The meeting begins at 7.15 p.m.
Albertans go to the polls Tuesday with every indication that the United Conservative Party of Jason Kenney is some ten points ahead of the NDP led by Premier Rachel Notely. Election fever is fuelled by discontent at the rest of Canada for opposition or indifference to pipeline construction, or simple ignorance about the role of oil and gas in the national economy.
The overhaul of driver’s permits, license plates and government anger with the federal carbon tax is happening at a furious pace. Listen to Christina Howorun. Then, Leafs forward Nazem Kadri has been suspended for the rest of his the opening-round playoff series against Boston after he delivered a nasty cross-check to the head of Bruins forward Jake DeBrusk on Saturday night. Leafs win 3-2 without Kadri Monday at home. Below that, hopeful murmurings from women hockey as they are forced to watch Finland in the final of the Women’s World HOckey Tournament. They lost 2-1 on a contested goal. Finally, is there enough marijuana or not? Many say the demand is staggering.
The happy faces of four students from Children’s Garden School on Eglinton Ave. at Hanna rd. are shining from literature sent to all schools in Ontario to prepare them for the 2019 run. It was a particularly pleasant surprise for CGS JK teacher Sara A who has headed up the Terry Team at CGS for 20 years. She found the familiar faces from last October’s run when she opened the mail this week. The newsletter goes out to 9,000 schools across Canada. Watch for it!
The Ford government has raised the spectre of Ottawa regulating “almost every facet of life” if the federal carbon tax law is permitted to stand. The Liberal climate-change law is so broad, a lawyer for the province told the Appeal Court hearing, that it would give the federal government powers that would be destabilizing to Canada in the name of curbing the cumulative effects of global-warming emissions. This view seemed to evoke the alarm which occurred back in 2016 at the Wynne government’s action plan for the environment. That scheme raised fears Ontario would ban the use of natural gas in homes. In court Monday, Ontario lawyer Josh Hunter said: “They could regulate where you live. How often you drive your car.It would unbalance the federation.”
In his submissions, Hunter was categorical that Ontario’s constitutional challenge to the federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act was not intended to be a debate on the realities or dangers of global warming. What’s at stake, he said, is which level of government has the power to deal with the problem. “Which measure is the best measure — the most efficient measure — is best left for legislatures to decide,” Hunter said. “Which legislature? That’s what we’re here to decide. The federal government law that kicked in on April 1 imposed a charge on gasoline and other fossil fuels as well as on industrial polluters. The law applies only in those provinces that have no carbon-pricing regime of their own that meets national standards — Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick. The federal view will heard in court Tuesday.
Peel Police say the November attack on a Mississauga woman on the doorstep of her home was committed by a man with a crossbow posing as a delivery person. The woman, 44, has life altering injuries from the attack which police say was intended to kill her. The police release says:
On November 7, 2018, at approximately 8 p.m., emergency services responded to a residence on Bayberry Drive in the City of Mississauga, in regards to an injured person. Upon arrival, a 44-year-old woman was located suffering from life-threatening injuries and was transported to a trauma centre.
It has since been determined that the victim answered the front door of her residence and was met by the suspect who was carrying a large box and posing as a delivery man. After a brief conversation, the suspect shot the victim with an arrow using a crossbow that was concealed inside of the box. The suspect then fled the area.
On November 8, 2018 investigators from the Criminal Investigations Bureau and Forensic Identification Services conducted a search warrant at the residence and collected evidence of the crime, including an arrow that is believed to have caused the injury to the woman as well as surveillance footage which captured images of the suspect and the incident. The arrow used in this incident is designed to hunt large game such as moose and deer and inflict the maximum amount of damage possible.
There’s wet weather along with higher temperatures coming this week. But nothing can stop to reappearance of the summer cars.
A post at Leaside Community Facebook Saturday tells of yet another car theft in which thieves tricked the keyless entry technology incorporated in the key fog to unlock and steal what is called “a large Lexus SUV.” It was taken about 2 a.m. after the family returned home from dinner in Yorkville. The writer thinks they may have been followed. There have been detailed stories written about this problem. Owners are advised to keep their keys away from the front door or anywhere near the home’s perimeter that the unlocking signal might trigger the car lock. Some people keep insulate keys in tin cans or the freezer of the refrigerator. The correspondent in this matter makes the modest suggestion that manufacturers of luxury vehicles probably owe their customers something that is safer. You might think so. This post was re-posted from another group so the location of the theft is not apparent.
Toronto police are urging the driver of a Ford or Lincoln SUV that hit and critically injured a man on College St. to get a lawyer and surrender. Cops have identified the speeding vehicle from parts left on the street after it hit a bus shelter about 2 a.m. They have traced a side mirror to either a 2015 to 17 Ford Expedition or a 2007 to 2017 Lincoln Navigator. A man, 21, standing in the shelter is fighting for his life in hospital. They say the hit and run fugitive was heading west on College when he passed at least three vehicles that were stopped in the passing lane. His car mounted the TTC traffic median and struck the glass shelter and the pedestrian
The Ontario Court of Appeal, highest legal authority in the province, will stream proceedings at Monday’s challenge to the federal carbon tax. “Typically cameras are not permitted in courtrooms,” Jacob Bakan, special counsel in the office of the province’s chief justice told the National Post. “The court is making an exception for the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act.” The case will see the Ontario government and supporters challenge the federal authority over imposition of a charge on gasoline, heating fuel and other pollutants as a way to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Ontario maintains the federal law is unconstitutional. In an order last week, Justice James MacPherson gave the CBC permission to put up to five cameras in the courtroom. The livestream will be available to other media and on the court’s own website.
