Good Saturday morning. The Awesome Sale (Part 2) at Leaside United Church starts at 10 a.m. Then at 11 a.m. there’s the Leaside Block Party across the street at Trace Manes Park. It is a chance to support the work of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. Up in the right corner is a reminder about the wretched overnight bottleneck on Eglinton Ave between Donlea Dr. and Hanna Rd. to re-pave and paint the road. Details from the TTC. Looking ahead to next week, the Leaside Blood Donors Clinic is Tuesday at Northlea School. At bottom right, new ATM machines at Scotiabank on Bayview glow green. But don’t forget your card.
Princess Eugenie, 28, has married Jack Brooksbank at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor. She’s the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. There were guests from Canada, friends of the groom’s family. Prince Phillip, 97, famously no fan of Fergie, arrived with the Queen.
The final report from the US National Transportation Safety Board on the near-miss at San Francisco in 2017 says the pilots delayed reporting the incident to Air Canada. Associated Press says the captain, identified in NTSB documents as Dimitrios Kisses, was supposed to report the San Francisco incident to the airline as soon as possible but didn’t because he was “very tired” and it was late. He waited until the next day. By that time, the plane was used for another flight, and the audio loop on the cockpit voice recorder was taped over. The NTSB does not allege that Kisses and co-pilot Matthew Dampier deliberately delayed reporting the incident, but it did say that investigators could have gained a better understanding of what the crew was doing before the close call. The jet flew less than 60 feet over crowded planes waiting to take off.
CONFUSED BY CLOSED RUNWAY
The NTSB is considering recommending that cockpit recorders capture the last 25 hours of flying time, up from two hours under current rules. Board member Weener also criticized the airline industry’s reliance on self-reporting of safety issues, saying the industry and the Federal Aviation Administration should consider stronger measures to intervene after a dangerous situation. Weener noted that other pilots were alert enough to turn on lights to warn the off-course Air Canada jet. Yet once the danger passed, he said, they took no action to prompt “an intervention and evaluation of the Air Canada crew.” The five-member board determined last month that the incident was caused by the Air Canada pilots being confused because one of two parallel runways was closed that night. The closure was noted in a briefing to the pilots, and nine other planes had made routine landings after the runway was shut down.
Michelle Hanson, 35, the mother of a little boy who apparently slipped out of her arms and perished in the flooded Grand River last February has been charged with impaired driving, dangerous driving and criminal negligence.causing death. She had driven her minivan into deep water and was trying to escape the stranded vehicle when her son Kaden Young, 3, fell into the river. The accident occurred near Orangeville. Little hope in search for Kaden Young, 3, in flooded Grand
Elderly man (note cane) with manager and security person/Facebook
A Metro Inc. shopper records her distress over an incident at the Bayview-Eglinton store in which an elderly man was browbeaten by staff after he parked his car in a walkway beside the handicapped spots. All the parking places were apparently full. It is not said in the post, which has many replies, if the man had a handicapped permit but it seems clear he should have had one. The FB writer says the man was visibly shaken, and trembling, for being called out on the PA to move his car. But it was in the parking lot that the writer says the staff seemed overbearing and angry with the vulnerable senior. Facebook
Canadian Press says Thursday that delivery service Foodora and 7-Eleven will offer delivery of the convenience store chain’s products in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. Berlin-based Foodora says starting today it will deliver everything from Slurpees to condoms to medicine ordered through its app. Foodora says the partnership will make use of 48 7-Eleven locations to facilitate deliveries and marks the first time the delivery service has partnered with a large-scale convenience store chain in Canada.Canadian Press
Four provinces now allow Sikhs to ride without helmet
Religious stricture
Liberals refused permission for this
The Ford government will permit Sikhs to ride motorcycles without helmets, it was announced Wednesday. There was no reference to road safety in the statement, the reason given by the previous Liberal government for refusing an exemption. It is a classic instance of religious freedom coming face to face with potential peril — death in fact — on the road. Sikhs wear a turban instead of any other headgear as a matter of religious observance. The PC government said it considered the decision to be an election promise kept. “We promised to establish a helmet exemption for Sikh motorcyclists,” Ford said in the statement. “Today we are taking action to fulfill that promise. We listened to the Sikh community and we intend to exempt them from the requirement to wear a helmet while riding a motorcycle.” MPP Prabmeet Sarkaria has tabled legislation which if passed, as expected, would grant the exemption. Currently, the law requires anyone riding a motorcycle in Ontario to wear a helmet. No doubt many will be watching for the first Sikh motorcycle fatality. Alberta, British Columbia and Manitoba all exempt Sikhs from helmets.
The sign on the window at 1568 Bayview says Eggstatic. It looks like the location next door to Verdi, which was L’Avenue Bistro, will become a brunch restaurant. At top right, the beautifully decorated Afghan restaurant Naan and Kabob will open Friday at Laird Drive and Kenrae Rd. Lots of parking beside Andy Elder’s Grilltime. Below that, the road into Leaside Arena was blocked Tuesday as they erected a hammer-head crane at the condo construction site at 3 Southvale Rd. Centre left, Alyson Schafer will be at Maurice Cody School next Wednesday (October 17) to speak on how parents should answer questions about distressing subjects in the news. Schafer is a distinguished family counsellor, author and acclaimed parenting expert who can tell you how to leave kids feeling safe and aware. Below that, the huge disruption outside Humphrey Funeral Home Wednesday was about putting in a new Bell Fibe line. Centre right, the Awesome Sale is back at Leaside United Church this Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. At the bottom, see you at the Bloorview Holland Leaside Block Party in Trace Manes Park on Saturday. It should be fun. Also Saturday, SERRA will be handing out its free trees for those who applied. It’s in the parking lot of the Church of the Transfiguration at 111 Manor Rd. East.
Canada’s main stock index fell more than 260 points Wednesday, driven by a drop in energy stocks as oil prices slipped. New York was near a 500 point decline near closing. Concerns of a slowing global economy weighed on equity markets after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its global GDP forecasts for the first time in two years on Tuesday, sending U.S. 10-year bond yields to multi-year highs.
