Cause of tariffs on steel and aluminium?

Battle of York prompted British retaliation

CNN and other US media are saying that Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau had a testy phone call on May 25 over new tariffs imposed by the US on steel and aluminum imports. Trump has used the improbable excuse for this penalty that Canada is a security threat to the US. CNN says Trudeau pressed Trump on this position and Trump is said to have quipped: “Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?” referring to the War of 1812. Apart from the elapsed time (205 years) this 1813 attack occurred during the aftermath of the Revolutionary War and was in retaliation for an American attack on York (now Toronto) then a British outpost in Upper Canada, established in 1791.

Anna Postill wins STEM scholarship to UNB (Twitter @DiscoverUNB)

Flowers at Passion Fruit

Creeds has “factory houses” exhibit

Banff Rd. Street Sale Saturday

Going to market/Parkside Elementary School

Leaside and Presteign United Church birthday

Coming July 14

Upper left, Leaside High graduate Anna Postill has reason to smile as she looks forward to her first year at New Brunswick University. Anna earned a Schulich Leader Scholarship in Engineering at UNB. Hat’s off to you Anna. Upper right, celebratory flowers on Bayview Ave. at Passion Fruit. Centre left is the scene at Creeds, 1595 Bayview, where the exhibit of architectural portraits of the so-called factory homes built by Canada Wire and Cable Company will reside until June 11. The pictures are illuminated in the wall screens that are a permanent fixture at Creeds. The exhibit is created by Leaside Matters, in association with architectural photographer Vik Pahwa. Beside that, a reminder of the enduring Banff Rd. Street Sale this Saturday. They really get into it over there. Further down on the left, a charming picture of Room Six kids at Parkside Elementary School on an excursion to the East York Farmers Market Tuesday. It’s weekly in the summer at 850 Coxwell Ave. Lower left, a reminder of this weekend’s celebration at Leaside United Church on the first anniversary of its amalgamation with Presteign-Woodbine United Church. Looks like fun. Finally, at right is the first word of the Bayview-Leaside BIA Sidewalk Sale on Saturday, July 14. South Bayview Bulletin Board

Nicky Ward

Gretchen Carlson

Candace Bergen

Left, the face of Nicky Ward, LGBTQ advocate who feels the police were less than candid last year when they said they had no evidence of a serial killer. Nicky makes the cop’s job sound so simple. At centre is Gretchen Carlson, Miss America 1989 and former Fox News personality. Today she’s the new boss of the Miss America Pageant. Her first act was to end the swimsuit competition. Then at the right, Candace Bergen, older and no doubt funny as ever. She will reprise her enormously popular portrayal of Murphy Brown on CBS this fall. Wags are saying she will be much better on Twitter than Roseanne Barr.

Cantilevered amenity level with pool

The E Condo towers at Yonge and Eglinton boast newly revealed cantilevered, red-coloured “amenity levels” which in one case will have a pool in which swimmers will be able to look down at the street through the transparent floor. Do you believe it! Urban Toronto

Legendary fashion designer Kate Spade was found dead hanging in her Park Avenue apartment in New York Tuesday in an apparent suicide, police said. She was 55. Spade’s body was found by a housekeeper not long after 10 a.m., police said at an afternoon news conference. Her husband and business partner, Andy Spade, was in the apartment at the time. The couple’s 13-year-old daughter was at school. Fox News says it has heard that Spade was not going to see any money from the sale of her company last year, although it had no details of why. CBC

Coca-Cola Canada has announced it will build a new factory in Peterborough to produce Fairlife brand lactose-free milk. It will cost $85 million and will employ about 35 people. It will operate in conjunction with the Minute Maid juice factory in Peterborough. Minute Maid is owned by Coca Cola The company says the facility is scheduled to begin operations in the first quarter of 2020. The plant will be supplied with milk from local dairy farmers in Ontario.

The Toronto Public Health Department has confirmed a case of measles and issued information for anyone who may have been in contact with the subject party. Members of the public are alerted about the following settings:

• May 30 Ukraine International Airlines flight PS423 that departed from Boryspil International Airport in Kiev, Ukraine at 9:25 a.m. and arrived at Tegel International Airport in Berlin, Germany at 10:35 a.m.
• May 30 Icelandair flight FI529 that departed from Berlin at 2:05 p.m. and arrived at Reykjavik International Airport at 3:40 p.m.
• May 30 Icelandair flight FI603 that departed from Reykjavik at 5 p.m. and arrived at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Toronto at 7:15 p.m.

Good afternoon #Toronto. I’m back from an awesome extended weekend in Ohio🇺🇸 & there was no shortage of #bikeTO offenders today. Some verbal abusive drivers after receiving a ticket & some clueless drivers. 👀 for signs before parking, it may save you $150 😯@UPS 🚲 pic.twitter.com/mTVTTf0duS

— PEO Erin Urquhart (@TPS_BikeHart) June 5, 2018

The exploits of chirpy PEO Erin are tweeted frequently and whererin she recounts motorist and trucker bad behavior in a light-hearted style. Nobody here but us chickens Officer Erin.

Erin is watching you

Heng Xiaojun of the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa visits one of the bus passengers injured in Monday afternoon’s crash on Highway 401. (@ChinaEmbOttawa/Twitter)

Bus crash aftermath/MARSHALL HEALEY/Special to The Recorder and Times)

A man from China has died and four other Chinese tourists remain in hospital with life-threatening injuries after a tour bus carrying 37 passengers sideswiped a rock cut along Highway 401 near Prescott Monday afternoon. The man who died was a 54-year-old from Suzhou in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, according to OPP. Survivors were visited by members of the Chinese embassy. The passengers are from the cities of Suzhou, Nantong, Shanghai, Hefei and Ningbo.

Mr. Lobraico / Instagram @cycle_solutions

Instragram posts/Instagram

Cyclist John Lobraico has reported encountering barbed wire “fencing” stretched across the trail used by hikers and bike riders that runs from the parking lot near Bayview Avenue and Pottery Road to the ravine behind the Loblaws grocery store on Redway Road. He posted a photo showing scratches to his arms. The utterly malicious nature of such an ambush seems beyond the capacity of adults using the trail. Police have been notified. The incident has been posted to Leaside Community. It has inspired some unfortunate us versus them comment in the context of cyclists and “hikers and workout moms with their starbucks/yoga pants and baby strollers.”  It does seem unlikely however that “workout moms” would be stringing barbed wire across a local trail. Leaside Community 

Shattered motorcycle/DR@Media371 Twitter

A motorcyclist and a car driver are both dead after their vehicles collided Monday night in Brampton at Queen St. and Bramalea Rd. Peel paramedics told CP24 that both persons were pronounced at the scene. A shattered motorcycle could be seen in photos tweeted by DR@media371. Police hinted at a possible cause saying the driver of the motor vehicle may have suffered a “possible medical episode” at the time.

Rob Ford’s widow, Renata Ford, has launched a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against her brothers-in-law Doug and Randy Ford and the family business, Deco Labels, claiming she and her children were bilked out of millions of dollars. The suit was filed Friday in Ontario Superior Court, Mrs. Ford claims Doug and his brother Randy, who run the Ford family businesses “conspired together” to deprive her and her children of shares in the family company Deco Toronto and the proceeds of a life insurance policy. The brothers are trustees for their late brother’s estate. A statement sent by a PC Party spokesperson on behalf of Diane Ford, mother of the Ford brothers, says “it is heartbreaking that Renata has chosen to bring forward these false and baseless allegations against our family, right in the middle of a provincial election campaign.” Coming as it does, 48 hours before the General Election, the action, whatever its merit, would seem to have been timed to influence matters beyond whatever is decided in court. Read tweets pro and con.

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