Holly Berry Fair at Rosedale United Church was packed Saturday with buyers, sightseers and fans of those hearty ham sandwiches. Always great fun.
UPDATED: Pedestrian bridge near Crescent Town elementary school partially collapses https://t.co/NEFeBlTKBt pic.twitter.com/LITEwketA6
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Crumbling infrastructure at Victoria Park and Danforth Aves. as a pedestrian bridge used daily by school kids starts to fall apart. No one was hurt but a man about to walk underneath narrowly missed getting hit by falling concrete. CP24
No winning ticket was sold for the $55 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. However, three of the draw’s Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each were claimed by ticket holders in Ontario and the Prairies. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Nov. 23 will be approximately $60 million, and there will be 21 Maxmillions up for grabs.
There seems to be some fretting about a possible coverup regarding the bullying video described by police as pornography. The video does indeed sound terrible but that definition seems unlikely to have occurred to the youthful perpetrators who have now been expelled from St. Michael’s College School. The administration learned of the video on Monday and called police Wednesday. Information provided today tells of eight explusions, not ten as rumoured among students.
A natural gas leak from a half-inch pipe that closed Mortimer Ave. at Pape Ave. Friday morning has been safely capped and the street re-opened to traffic, police and fire sources say.
Doctors, as represented by the Canadian Medical Association, a kicking back against a move by the Ontario government to require employees to present a doctor’s note if they miss work because of an ailment. The Canadian Press story Friday says a note will be required for “even minor illnesses, such as the common cold” It says a privately commissioned poll suggests a majority of working Canadians oppose allowing employers to require sick notes for minor illnesses. The survey also finds that eight in 10 Ontarians who responded said they would likely come in to work when ill if their employer required a sick note.
Canadian merchant banker and television dragon Michael Wekerle waxes wild about his ambitious plans for the new El Mocambo. Listen to him as he gabbles on to City News downtowner Lindsay Dunn. Then, it turns out homeless Johnny Bobbitt was part of the fraud perpetrated by Kate McClure and her boyfriend, Mark D’Amico. The Philadelphia DA says they all schemed to get rich by cooking up a fake GoFundMe crisis. It gathered more than $400,000. Thursday they were all charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. Then, at right, Laura Softley, 34, is a British choir teacher. But it seems her taste ran to teenage male pupils who she took home, fed booze, entertained by stripping and invited to bed.
A Montreal lawyer has succeeded in launching a class action suit against the advertising of Happy Meals to Quebec children. He is Joey Zurkan and his action was authorized this week by a superior court justice. Quebec law is strict about advertising to children. Zurkan apparently contends that toys offered with the meals, and models of the toys shown outside McDonald’s, is advertising to children. The question will be about where advertising to parents ends, and advertising to children begins. Needless to say, the potential for the shutdown of toy store windows and cereal box giveaways in grocery stores lurks in the background.
Weekend road closueres including those for Sunday’s Santa Claus Parade are noted in this release from the City.
Toronto Christmas Market – Distillery District
Northbound and southbound curb lanes on Parliament Street, from Lake Shore Boulevard East to Front Street East, will be closed from Friday, November 16 at 4 p.m. until Sunday, November 18 at midnight.A map of this closure is available at http://bit.ly/ChristmasMrktDis
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Dundas Square Street between Yonge Street and O’Keefe Lane will be closed on Saturday, November 17 from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. for this event.A map of this closure is available at http://bit.ly/Illuminite2018.
Rosedale Cavalcade of Lights
Scrivener Square will be closed from Yonge Street to 10 Scrivener Square on Saturday, November 17 from 2 to 6 p.m. for this event.A map of this closure is available at http://bit.ly/RosedaleCavalcad
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Cumberland Street from Old York Lane to 114 Cumberland St. will be closed on Saturday, November 17 from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. for this event.A map of this closure is available at http://bit.ly/HolidayMagic2018
. Santa Claus Parade
This event will involve full and rolling road closures on Sunday, November 18 from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m.:
• Bloor Street West from Ossington Avenue to Queen’s Park
• Queen’s Park/Queen’s Park Crescent/University Avenue to Wellington Street West
• Wellington Street West from University Avenue to Yonge Street
• Yonge Street from Wellington Street to Front Street
• Front Street from Yonge Street to Jarvis Street
• Lower Jarvis Street from Front Street East to Lake Shore Boulevard EastIn addition, parade-related curb lane closures will occur on Sunday at the following locations and times:
• Front Street East from Jarvis Street to Sherbourne Street from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Queens Quay East from Lower Jarvis Street to Parliament Street from 2 to 6 p.m.
• Lower Jarvis Street northbound curb lane and laybys from 1 to 6 p.m.The full parade route is available at http://thesantaclausparade.com
/. The Holly Jolly Fun Run
This event will precede the Santa Claus parade and follow the same route, with the following additional closures on Sunday, November 18 from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
• Bremner Boulevard will be closed from York Street to Lake Shore Boulevard West
• York Street southbound from University Avenue to Bremner Boulevard.This news release is also available on the City’s website: http://ow.ly/1CI930mDcHK.
Police will kick off the 2018 the annual RIDE campaign against impaired driving Thursday morning at the police college at 70 Birmingham St. in New Toronto. TPS will be joined by the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP), the Ministry of Transportation and Arrive Alive DRIVE SOBER. The driving campaign comes with predictions of snow Thursday evening.
Source: theweathernetwork.com
A member of Leaside Community Facebook writes Thursday that the mystery of how white cat hair kept appearing on the roof of her convertible is solved. The handsome fellow seen here (she calls him a beautiful boy) has been posing on the vinyl roof when no one was looking. Good traction up there for cat models to the neighborhood.
