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Sunnybrook Hospital has announced the arrival of baby Sebastian as its first baby of 2019. Parents Rachel and Riccardo welcomed their second child, sweet Sebastian Antonio at 12:02:56. He weighed 3770.5g (8 lbs, 5oz)
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Only a night from old to new;
Only a sleep from night to morn.
The new is but the old come true;
Each sunrise sees a new year born.
Helen Huint Jackson, 1892
A Vancouver man has died after he became stuck in a street side used-clothing bin, police report. The victim, 34, was found Sunday morning by an off-duty doctor who happened to pass the bin. The man was unresponsive and stuck partway in the opening of the bin. Paramedics attempted to resuscitate him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. In July a woman died in a bin in Vancouver while in March 2016 a 20- year-old-man died in a clothing bin in Surrey. In September 2015 a woman died in a bin at Pitt Meadows near Surrey and a man died in a bin on Hespeler Rd. in Cambridge in November. A sixth person died in Calgary in 2017.
A large truck sideswiped as many as five poles on the Gardiner Expressway westbound at Dufferin St. Monday morning. Police say there were no injuries but lots of debris. Video
The TTC Metropass will be discontinued as of midnight when those wanting discounted fares will be required to purchase a Presto pass. The TTC will offer TTC passes, including a 12-month pass, through Presto. The price for the monthly pass will be unchanged at $146.50 for adults and $116.75 for seniors/ youth. Presto passes can be purchased at Shoppers Drug Mart, Fare Vending Machines at TTC subway station entrances, from the TTC Customer Service Centre, or online at prestocard.ca. Tickets and tokens will be phased out at the end of 2019 however. BT interview bdelow with Anne Marie Aikens is informative.
Stores are open Monday for you to catch a last-minute touch or taste needed to mark the 2019 countdown. Happy New Year All.
Madrid hairdresser Alberto Olmedo is appealing to jaded customers by fixing their hair with a blow torch, samurai swords and a pair of fearful slicing fingers that make him look like Edward Scissorhands. Euronews says that Alberto is a “real barber who owns a real hair salon.”
The incident at Summerhill subway station on Shaftesbury St. Saturday was the playing out of one’s worst fears. Many fire and paramedic personnel responded but their job was sadly too simple in bringing the victim up and out of the track channel. Readers are commiserating Sunday with a man who was there.
SEPARATE INCIDENT ON SUNDAY
One man is in custody after an attempted stabbing aboard a TTC subway train on Sunday afternoon. Police and transit officers responded to a call around 12:45 p.m. after a passenger assistance alarm was activated aboard a train at Summerhill station. A man with a knife aboard the train reportedly tried to stab a woman. When the train was held at the station due to the alarm, the man got off and left the scene. Transit officers pursued him on foot and he was taken into custody. Officers believe the knife was discarded and were searching for the weapon in the area. No injuries were reported and it’s unclear if the suspect and victim knew each other — City News
No winning ticket was sold for the $13 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. The guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in the Prairies. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on January 2 will be approximately $16 million.
A little December surprise has been greeted with poetic resolution in many parts. Suzanne Hadju tweeted from the front window of her midtown home that “There is a quiet stillness to the day today.” So true. There will probably be mucky conditions underfoot soon with a high of 2 Celsius predicted for Sunday. Monday will be rainy with a high of four.
