Many said it felt like the Toronto-Montreal rivalry of old Saturday as the Leafs and Habs battled to secure second place in the Atlantic Division of the NHL. Leafs won in overtime 4-3. NHL highlights are on YouTube.
The sudden appearance of signs with the Rolling Stone tongue sticking out and the date June 29, 2019, make it seem certain that the oldest bad boys in the world will bring their North American No Filter Tour to Toronto this summer. It happened by stealth at the Eaton Centre, Union Station, on the outside of Rogers centre and many other places. Fans are delighted and are burning up social media with their comments.
Are the Rolling Stones Toronto-bound with their No Filter Tour? https://t.co/83pjJaFlsI
— casey helmons (@caseyhelmons) February 9, 2019
Juicier in Washington to be sure, as the National Enquirer is accused of threatening to release naughty pictures of Jeff Bezos if he doesn’t disavow charges that the Enquirer is in bed (so to speak) with Donald Trump. In Ottawa, the former Justice Minister, one-time indigenous cabinet all-star Jody Wilson-Raybould, refuses to say the words Justin Trudeau longs to hear. To wit, “I wasn’t pressured to stop Lavalin SNC from being criminally prosecuted.” She just won’t say it. Juicy.
Hope springs eternal on Coxwell Ave as Shamrock Bowling, an East York landmark, gets set to open again Thursday, February 28. This time it will have food and dancing as well as five-pin action. The new name is Shamrock Bowl and Restobar. Nice. It has a food menu and beer, wine and liquor offerings ranging from Margaritas to Jim Beam. The legendary Shamrock dates from the 1950s but has been dormant since 2011 despite efforts by real estate agent Peter Knox the find an operator in 2017. The Shamrock is upstairs over Goodlife Fitness at 280 Coxwell at Gerrard St. Looking for bowler to operate Coxwell Ave. 5-pin throwback
HAZARD:
Danforth Av + Broadview Av
-Possible water main break
-Water seeping from building
-Starting to get onto roadway
-Water is now freezing
-311 has been notified@311#GO252985
^dh— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) February 9, 2019
The third Toronto Polar Plunge is Saturday Sir Casimir Gzowski Park, 1751 Lakeshore Boulevard West. Toronto Police members of prominent in this charitable benefiting the Special Olympics. A release says TPS members are proud supporters of the plunge, which is organized by the Law Enforcement Torch Run. Check-in for participants will be at 11 a.m., with opening ceremonies, including remarks from Chief Mark Saunders starting at 11:30 a.m. The plunge will be taking place at noon.
No winning ticket was sold for the $10 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Feb. 15 will be approximately $16 million.
The Line One Subway will be closed Saturday and Sunday between Lawrence and St Clair stations while Metrolinx crews continue construction of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, which is scheduled to open in 2021. Shuttle buses will run along Yonge St., stopping at each station along the route. At Lawrence, Eglinton and Davisville stations, customers can get on and off shuttle buses on Yonge St. At St Clair Station, customers board inside the bus bay and exit on St. Clair Ave. E., outside the station. As an alternative, customers can use the 97 Yonge bus and the University side of Line One.
Hang onto your hat as reporters dig away at whether bitcoin smoothie Gerald Cotton, merely 30, (at left) is really dead of natural causes in India as reported previously. The Canadian lone ranger of cryptocurrency firm QuadridaCX supposedly expired in Mumbai with all the passwords and known whereabouts of $250 million in bits sealed inside his laptop. And maybe he did. But that part of the world is known, say scribes, as a great place to get a false death certificate for yourself. Then at centre is Michael Maguire. the TTC bus driver who has made a hit (or whatever) with riders for his wild manicures. See his brightly-lit Instagram midway here. Lastly, that’s Dental Assistant Arieta Gouvakis at right. She’s given new meaning to the toothache by stealing patients’ jewellery when they were asleep in the chair.
#Breaking: Serial killer Bruce McArthur sentenced to 8 x life in prison with 25 years before he can apply for parole in the first-degree murders of eight men. He will be able to apply for parole at the age of 91. https://t.co/7VAPj8qvvo
— Toronto Star (@TorontoStar) February 8, 2019
There is much comment on whether the sentence given to McArthur is adequate. One tweet calls it “horrendous.”
A man has been shot dead in an early morning incident outside a bar on Queen St. east of Parliament St. Little is known but more will come out as police dig into it. Below is a photo of the collision of a pickup truck and a fire truck about 3 a.m. at College and Bay Sts. Again, it remains to reported what occurred here. No one was hurt.
