Toronto Hydro restored power to as many as 1,00o customers in Old East York across the Don Valley from Leaside Sunday evening. Most of the darkness lay across Broadview Ave. The report came in shortly after 9 p.m. This picture of the Hydro Outage Map was current at about 10 p.m.
Fire (transformer/pole) [East York]O'connor Drive @ Stanhope Avenue
Dispatched: 05/12/21 @ 21:05 EST
[Stn: 322] Aerial-322
General Area:— Toronto Fire (@tofire) December 6, 2021
Toronto Fire Service extinguished a single-arm fire in the homeless encampment in Lamport Park at the corner of King St West and Jefferson Ave Sunday. There are no reports of injuries. Lamport Park has seen a large gathering of tents and encampments in recent months. In May, the fire service was called to the same place at 5 a.m. on reports of a fire that caused “screaming and explosions” but no one was treated.
A Mississauga lottery gambler will collect the $8.8 million Lotto 649 jackpot on a ticket drawn Saturday. The second prize of $207,248.90 was sold in Lambton County. A $1-million ticket was also sold in Niagara Region.
The details of how his parents enabled a young man to kill four of his classmates at a Michigan school are almost beyond belief. Among the crushing details is evidence that Jennifer Crumbley told her son, Ethan, that he had to learn not to get caught with his newly-purchased handgun.
Josephine Baker honoured in France
She was a popular feature at the Folies Bergere, a spy for the French resistance and a maternal strength who adopted 12 children. Josephine Baker was also black. Last week she became the first woman of her race to be given the highest civilian honour in France.
Creepy robot reality wakes up in Britain
The subtle humanity in the faces of these British robots is creepy.
MP Rob Oliphant has sent out information about a virtual meeting related to commercial aircraft noise over Leaside and other Midtown neighbourhoods like Moore Park, Rosedale and others. The return to business of Porter Airlines and increased traffic at Pearson Airport is obviously noticeable. Porter’s piston-engine aircraft take off for Ottawa and Montreal over homes and there doesn’t appear to be much altitude. The meeting is on December 6, 2021 at 5 p.m. It is organized by Nav Canada and anyone may sign up to attend. Nav Canada is a privately run, not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates Canada’s civil air navigation system (ANS). It was established in accordance with the Civil Air Navigation Services Commercialization Act (ANS Act).
Toronto Fire has extinguished a fire Friday night on or under the roof of Churrasco Chicken at 254 Eglinton Ave at Mt Pleasant Rd. Many units responded to the two-alarm fire. Personnel had to access the fire from a lane off Mt. Pleasant between the construction site of the new LRT station and the Roehampton Hotel. Mt. Pleasant was closed from Soudan Ave to Roehampton Ave for about three hours but has now reopened. The 34 Eglinton East bus detoured via Redpath Ave, Soudan Ave and Forman Ave.
The Ontario Auditor-General says the government is using a previously little-used land-planning tool to fast-track development and circumvent normal planning processes. An audit by Bonnie Lysyk’s office released Wednesday said the government issued 44 Minister’s Zoning Orders between March 2019 and March 2021, when in the past, about one was issued per year. In 2017 and 2018, there were none. The report said that 17 of the 44 orders were issued to the same seven development groups or companies. Canadian Press at CP24
The City of London, Ontario is reeling in shock and heartbreak after an out-of-control car mounted a sidewalk and struck a group of Girl guides, killing one eight-year-old.
Services were held Sunday at noon at the Steeles Memorial Chapel for long-time Bayview hardware merchant Ray Gork. He died Friday, November 26 at home. A very moving obituary is published on the Steeles website.
A man, 36, was knocked onto the tracks and hit by a train at the Yonge-Bloor subway station last Friday during a freak pushing incident with another man. The victim is said to be recovering. It began when he apparently bumped into the man while carrying a large box. The suspect is described as 6’0″, with a slim build, and light brown hair. He was wearing a black coat, light brown hoodie with the hood up, black pants, grey running shoes, and carrying a blue backpack with a floral pattern. Call (416) 808-5100.
A startling number of Canadians now say this country should cease to be a constitutional monarchy. But, as seen in this CBC report, there is reason to worry about what the country might do as an alternative. Like, make one person both the prime minister and president. That’s been known as a recipe for monarchical rule by a politician.
Harassed Ontario MD says anti-vaxers don’t have enough to do
Dr Gretchen Roedde is quitting her Timiskaming practice after anti-vaxers launched a harassment campaign against her. Dr. Roedde concludes that such people really don’t have enough to do. Wise words.
Michigan governor calls gun killings “a uniquely American problem”
Another horrifying shooting at a US school. Three kids are dead and many injured after a boy brought his father’s gun to school. The governor of Michigan choked up at she dealt with the truth. Such mad killings are a result of the unique American constitutional right to walk around with a firearm in your pocket.
The Ontario government says it will install electric vehicle charging stations at most ONroute rest stops in Ontario by this summer. A release Wednesday says 17 ONroute locations will be open in time for the good weather with another three ONroute locations opening before the end of 2022. The pay-per-use charging stations will be installed by Hydro One and Ontario Power Generation’s joint network called Ivy, and won’t involve direct funding from the provincial government itself.
