The Lotto Max jackpot for Friday’s draw has risen to $65 million after there was no winning ticket Tuesday night. None of the six available Maxmillions prizes of $1 million were claimed either.

This informative Wikipedia post Tuesday morning gives the seat count above for Canada’s new House of Commons — another minority for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. The resurgence of the Bloc Quebecois reveals a very Canadian outcome in which Quebec opts out of national politics and creates political uncertainty. It’s Canada.

Liberal Toronto and how

Predictions of a Liberal bonanza in Toronto have been fulfilled. There are essentially no changes among seats in Midtown Toronto. CTV has a full list of GTA outcomes here.

Conservatives win popular vote

The CPC won the most votes in the 2021 federal election but wasn’t able to translate that support into the most seats. Tory voters live in the wrong places to create a win in the HOC. They collected 34.1 percent of the gross ballots with the Liberals taking 31.8 percent of the total number of votes cast. That translated into 46.2 percent of the total seats for the Liberals (158 seats).

Yet more spending for everything it seems

This City News yack early Tuesday suggests a Liberal/NDP arrangement to introduce many new spending projects — nice but of course, someone has to pay.

An election-eve poll puts the major parties neck and neck in today’s vote. There’s an incentive here for you to make a difference. Please vote.

You may need your vaccine passport for these events but the scheduled Variety Show next Thursday at the Amsterdam Barrell House looks like fun. Below, the Leaside Heritage Preservation Society is holding a get-together at the Leaside Pub on September 29.

Toronto Fire Service has extinguished a two-alarm fire at a home under construction on Crescent Rd between Wrentham Place and the Mt. Pleasant ramp early Sunday. The traffic map shows there is still a lot of congestion in the area including the ramp.

There’s an outpouring of good wishes towards a former 53 Division policeman and high hopes for the return of the cat Gingy at Leaside Community Saturday. Lauren Herz tells how the officer agreed to use his sniffer dogs trained to find pets to bring Gingy home.

Canada’s armed forces often seem to be greatly distanced from national defense.

Russian chess champ sues Netflix over Queen’s Gambit

Nona Gaprindashvili, a Soviet-era chess star seems to be making a quick grab for $5 million from Netflix for a single line in the hugely popular series Queen’s Gambit. We’ll see.

Kids wreck schools, steal things to become TikTok celebrities

 

 

The City will fully close Allen Road this weekend for maintenance, starting Friday at 11 p.m. until Monday at 5 a.m. The closure will extend from Eglinton Avenue West to Sheppard Avenue West, including all on/off ramps at Allen Road and Highway 401.

But of course, change the names of all the vaccines for — ah, well — see if you can find a good reason. CTV

Faces that tell us of heartbreak and joy. On the left is Shemima Begum, the British-born girl who left England at 15 seven years ago to join ISIS and is now begging to be allowed to come home. It doesn’t look good. At centre is Gabby Petito, 22, who has vanished while on a US cross-country van trip with her boyfriend Brian Landrie. Some think the two sweethearts began to suffer emotional distress from too much closeness. Uh-huh. At right, the shining face of Amanda Gorman, 23, an eloquent young woman who is skyrocketing to stardom since her brief speech at Joe Biden’s inauguration. Wonderful.

Explosions can be heard on the Global News video at the scene of a fatal collision between two trucks at Havelock in Belmont Township near Peterborough Thursday. Highway 7 is closed in both directions between Belmont Township 11th Line and Mary Street.