Ottawa has updated its travel advisory for China, suggesting Canadians exercise a high degree of caution “due to the risk of arbitrary enforcement of local laws.” This comes after China revoked the jail sentence conviction of Robert Lloyd Schellenberg and said it would instead seek the death penalty. Schellenberg is accused of smuggling drugs. “We are constantly evaluating our travel advice for Canadians traveling to China, as we do for all countries around the world,” Global Affairs Canada said in a statement. “All Canadians who are considering travel to China should carefully review the Government of Canada’s complete Travel Advice and Advisory.”
Jamye’s abductor gives long, detailed confession to crimes
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Cops seen in flirty game of “handcuffs” with women in bar
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Two policemen have been captured in video apparently flirting with two women at a west-end bar, the Queen Street Warehouse. The women are seen laughing Sunday night as they are handcuffed in a suggestive moment of roleplay. The two officers, identified today as Jian Liang and Aaron Isaac, are under investigation.
Homebound civil servants died in OC Transpo horror Friday
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Bruce Tomlinson
Judy Booth
Anja Van Beek
The three dead in Friday’s double-decker bus crash in Ottawa are named Monday as civil servants. They were all on their way home from work when the bus slammed into the overhang of a bus stop at Westboro station. They are Bruce Tomlinson, 56, Judy Booth, 57, and Anja Van Beek, 65. Close two dozen others are injured.
Why was woman, 92, riding in cab with violent mental case?
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Montreal family members are demanding answers after their mother, 92, was placed next to a man who is a known, violent mental case in a taxi being used to carry the disabled. Photos of the badly-beaten women are shocking.
Police will peer from trams, buses to find distracted driving
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Police will ride streetcars and buses as part of the distracted driving campaign which starts Monday. They will peer out the window into vehicles below and perhaps communicate what they see to other police nearby. The blitz is set to last until next week but there are suggestions an effort will be made to extend it. City News video.
Old sign on Queen recalls day of milliners and haberdashers
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When women patronized milliners
1412 Queen St. W/Sstrong@hotelbaudin
Renovation at 1412 Queen St. W. has revealed the sign of a 1930s women’s hat shop, Parkdale Millinery. It appears the sign, which has been partially disassembled but not yet destroyed, belonged to a business run by a man named Arthur Levine. Records show him there in 1931. Many stores have filled the space since then but Gordon Robb, who will open a cycle store there in March, says he would like to preserve the sign if he can. The sign recalls a time when women, and men too, wore stylish hats all the time when in public. Men visited a haberdasher to buy the necessary headgear. Holy Spaceballs! Sign for Mel Brooks classic on Eglinton W.
Cops, Flemingdon locals mark decade of ProAction Hockey
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A shared interest: Local lad and police officer discuss the rubik cube toy handed out Sunday/Bulldog
Jon Burnside, George Mullin and Dave Croutch/Bulldog
Spirited game/Bulldog photo
Hot dogs, toys like rubik cube games and frisbee discs helped police and citizens mark a decade of ProAction Hockey in Flemingdon Park Sunday. Angela James Arena on Grenoble Dr. was full of community friends, locals, moms and dads helping to tie skates and notable friends of the program. Jon Burnside, who spearheaded the program ten years ago, was seen chatting with two other ProAction originals, George Mullin and Dave Croutch. Among others present were MPP Kathleen Wynne, Deputy Police Chief Peter Yuen and women’s hockey legend Angela James. Many high-ranking officers and rank and file mixed with the crowd. Three PCs got to stand outside to cook the popular hotdogs.
Man shot, badly hurt, in laneway near Church and Colborne
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One man has been shot Sunday afternoon near the corner of Church and Colborne Sts, south of King East. Reports on his condition are mixed but it seems his injuries are serious at the least. The location of the shooting, constructed from fragments of information seems to have been the laneway off Colborne behind a building on Church. The Google image below shows it. The view looks east to Church along Colborne.
Two watermain breaks on Sunday at Bayview and Davisville
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Work at Bayview and Davisville to repair watermain breaks/Bulldog
Scene on southwest corner/Bulldog photo
A number of residents were scrounging for water Sunday as emergency repair of two breaks was underway at Bayview and Davisville Aves. Workmen said the job would be finished by nightfall.
Vehicle breaks gas line at Bathurst and Ellerslie Sunday
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Residents near Bathurst St. and Ellerslie Ave. are out of their homes on this cold Sunday as a gas leak forces evacuation. Police say they are being housed in a shelter bus. The leak occurred when a vehicle, so far unknown, struck a gas line or main. There are no injuries. No timeline is stated for repair so far. The first report is 15 minutes old at 10.20 a.m.
50,000 liters of jet fuel spilled on Hwy. 401 at Cambridge
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Highway 401 remained closed eastbound at Townline Rd. in Cambridge Sunday afternoon/DR@Media371 Twitter
A tractor trailer collision with another vehicle has shut down Highway 401 in Cambridge and caused a jet fuel spill. OPP say both directions of the highway are closed between Townline Road and Highway 6 South. The crash happened around 2 a.m. Sunday, causing 50,000 liters of jet fuel to spill onto the highway. The clean-up is expected to take several hours and there is no estimated time for the highway to re-open — City News
Overturned tanker spilled jet fuel/OPP photo