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Wednesday: Razor thin edge for DST status quo in Alta vote

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Albertans have voted by the narrowest possible margin (50.1 percent to 49.9 percent) to retain the daylight saving time annual clock change. There’s growing unrest nonetheless to get rid of the annual dislocation of sleep and work that extends to life and death things like road safety. The Legislature has voted to eliminate the change if only Quebec and New York State will do the same. Should Ontario wait, or be a leader?

Pope may visit Canada

Pope Francis has agreed to visit Canada to help ongoing efforts at reconciliation with Indigenous peoples following revelations of the church’s role in the attempts to integrate native children, the Vatican said on Wednesday. In a brief statement, the Holy See’s press office said that the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has invited the pope to make an apostolic journey to Canada “also in the context of the long-standing pastoral process of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.”

RCI matriarch says son supplied inaccurate information

Stunning details have emerged from a court petition filed by Edward Rogers at the BC Supreme Court. It reveals that the Rogers Communications Inc. board voted to accept CEO Joe Natale’s retirement but the decision was reversed in another board meeting just a few days later when Edward wasn’t there. That disclosure has prompted Edward’s mother, Loretta Rogers, 82, to declare that the reason for the reversal was because she felt her son supplied her with inaccurate information about Natale’s performance as CEO.

Welcome to big weather change as October draws to end

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Weather change is a bit of shock

Rain, wind and chilly temperatures will continue Tuesday as seasonal changes take effect. Tweet from Graham Paine below reveals the ferocity of wave action at Burlington.



Freeland to keep powerful role as lesser MPs shuffled about

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Government required new cabinet members, all of whom are no doubt vaccinated, to wears masks for the official photo

A major cabinet shuffle Tuesday morning has brought new faces to the forefront and seen others demoted and effectively discarded. Chrystia Freeland, the MP for University Rosedale, will remain as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister. The full story is here. Her permanence and proximity to the Prime Minister’s ear reveal again the stark difference between ministers who really matter and those who are appointed for reasons that seem merely convenient.

Melinda’s lawyer says strong judge will end Edward’s coup

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Walied Soliman
Melinda Rogers-Hixon
Edward Rogers

The lawyer for Rogers board member Melinda Rogers-Hixon says he is confident a “strong judge” at the BC Supreme Court will “see through” the plan of Edward Rogers, Melinda’s brother, to appoint a new board for the firm “with the strike of a pen”. Walied Soliman of Norton, Rose, Fulbright LLP, is quoted by Canadian Press Monday as follows: “My response to that is we have shareholder meetings for a reason. If at any time, somebody had the majority of votes in connection with a company and were able to just sign a piece of paper and replace the independent directors then we would never have shareholder meetings.” There’s no indication so far just when the matter might be referred to the court or how quickly it might act.

Wires down at Danforth and Oak Park, outages in west end

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Windy weather appears to be responsible for wires down at Oak Park Ave and Danforth Ave Monday morning. Police have the roads closed. And power outages are seen on the Toronto Hydro Outage Map in west-end Toronto.

Report windsurfer in trouble off New Toronto

A marine rescue has been launched Monday afternoon after a report that a windsurfer was seen trying to climb onto a buoy off Colonel Sam Smith Park in New Toronto. The outcome of all this remains in the hands of fate, it seems.

Soudan/Bayview bugaboo will only calm down to stoplights

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Photo by Ian Smith

Many residents are commenting Sunday about the on-going challenges of the pedestrian crossing at Bayview Ave and Soudan/Parkhurst. There are calls for a more elaborate pedestrian crossing similar to the one on Moore Ave at Mud Creek. Other people want a stoplight but the hostility to this idea is expressed in a one-word comment (No!) from Ario Hojabri. Sadly perhaps, only stoplights will help the carnage at this bugaboo corner. Unlike the Moore crossing, which is single file pedestrians and just two (not four) lanes of vehicles, the Bayview/Soudan corner is a busy, multi-lane intersection that obscures the view of drivers in the curb lanes. Facebook

Sister’s Twitter salvo vows to stop brother’s takeover of RCI

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Twitter salvo Saturday
Empire that Ted built

The nasty family battle for control of Rogers Communications Inc. continued Saturday with the company claiming its recently fired chairman, Edward Rogers, intends to hold a weekend meeting with a slate of hand-picked board directors and pre-emptively rejecting the outcome of any such gathering. “The proposal by Mr. Edward Rogers to hold a purported board meeting with his proposed slate of directors this weekend does not comply with laws of British Columbia, where Rogers Communications Inc. is incorporated and is therefore not valid,” newly appointed board chairman John MacDonald said in a statement. And Mr. Rogers sister, Martha, also a board member, exploded in a series of tweets vowing to “spend every penny” of the firm’s money to stop him from taking over. Another sister, Melinda, and their mother, Loretta, board members too, equally oppose Edward Rogers. Global