Leaside’s Team Epping is bidding for the right to represent Canada at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Play begins Friday at the Tim Hortons Olympic Curling Trials in Saskatoon. There are nine men’s and nine women’s teams in the competition. The winning teams will represent Canada in the team curling competition at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
The astonishing performance of Canada’s men’s soccer team has them on the road to the World Cup in Qatar next year. Alphonso Davies gives Canada a shot at World Cup
School bus rammed by fire truck
The Buffalo Fire Department has released this shot of the collision between one of its trucks and a school bus. Happily, there were no children on the bus and the driver escaped injury.
Fabergé eggs on show in London
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has launched a show displaying the work of Fabergé, jeweller to the Romanov dynasty in Imperial Russia. There are 15 Fabergée Easter eggs, tiaras and many other priceless pieces in the show.
A huge highrise proposal for the west side of Broadview Ave south of Bloor St would see a 35-storey tower built on top of a seven-storey base building. There’s a virtual information meeting Thursday night. The proposal indicates that existing leases will be retained. That includes the Loblaws store at 720 Broadview.
Beginning in 2022, the Ontario government will switch exclusively to email notices to citizens that their driver’s licences, licence plate stickers, and health cards need to be renewed. Email is more than 30 years old and is everywhere but no doubt there are some folks who still aren’t converted. Below is an interview with the minister, Ross Romano on this change.
Dave Owen, the owner of the popular fresh fish and seafood chain de la mer, has posted a video in which he tells the public he has been diagnosed with cancer.
Joe Natale is gone from Rogers Communications and Tony Staffieri is the new CEO as Edward Rogers wields power at the large public firm. The report above is from Rogers owned City News, certainly as good a source as any.
Phone and television sets will wail with the sound of the national Ready Alert warning system Wednesday. In Ontario, the fearful noise that sounds like magnified fingernails on a blackboard will occur about 12.55. It’s no doubt important but be careful not to spin off the highway in fear if you’re driving.
Toronto has announced that Hackman Capital Partners (HCP) and its affiliate, the MBS Group (MBS) will develop and operate the Basin Media Hub, a $250 million state-of-the-art film, television and media hub to be built on an 8.9-acre waterfront development parcel in Toronto’s Port Lands. The lots are located at 29, 35, 41 Basin St. The Port Lands lie more or less at the bottom of the Don Valley Parkway. For most people, it’s a dreary and remote place. Four images depicting this glamorous new Hollywood North community are seen on the City’s news release. It calls the development the most significant contribution to Toronto’s film and television production ecosystem in more than two decades.
This dramatic shot from Twitter photographer Celadon Kate shows new LRT train during testing as well as the transformed view looking west up Eglinton from Leslie Street.
A tree on Mt. Pleasant Rd. split in half during Monday supper hour creating blockage on the road. The tree is a few feet north of Belsize Drive. Police had northbound traffic narrowed as they waited for City Works to remove the obstruction.
Leaside United Church has its venerable Awesome Sale online again this year. Lots of interesting items but of course not as much fun as lining up around the corner and then staring down other buyers for your favorite find.
Toronto’s weather remains relatively warm for mid-November although freezing temps and snow cannot be far off.
