The sidewalks are going in at The Stack on Bayview Ave. The residential commercial development is also known as 730 Hillsdale. As seen below, there will be a number of attractive retail spaces on the ground level. So far there hasn’t been a whisper about what businesses might move in there.
Leslieville residents and others are commenting at length on the Canadian International Airshow underway this weekend. Saturday saw a jet fly past Rob Stewart’s balcony at Park Lawn Rd and Lake Shore Blvd West. Is that okay? FB
The OPP Highway Safety Division has posted pictures of an overturned car in a river off of the QEW east of Skyway bridge. A woman driver is said to have been rescued from this scary incident. Below is a picture from a distraction accident on Highway 401 eastbound near Dixie Road. A trucker apparently ran into a guardrail. This information has prompted twitter readers to complain that truck drivers are occupied with everything from cooking dinner to watching movies while they are at the wheel.
Some residents of the Mt Pleasant West neighbourhood and beyond are applauding the demolition of the building at 55-65 Broadway Ave. The address became notorious in recent months as the location of a City-operated shelter. It was the scene of many criminal incidents.
Hamilton police continue their search Friday for 84-year-old Peter Ashby. His boat was washed up near the Burlington lift bridge overnight. He was last seen leaving the Queens City Yacht Club on Toronto’s Algonquin Island.
MISSING BOATER: Search efforts con’t for missing sailor 84 y/o Peter Ashby, after his unoccupied 27’ sailboat was found overnight washed-up on rocks near #Burlington Lift Bridge. @HamiltonPolice remain o/s as @CoastGuardCAN con’t to search Lake Ontario. pic.twitter.com/8YTvlWEqMW
— Graham Paine (@GPmedia_24) September 3, 2021
Toronto police said they are looking for a 84-year-old man named Peter Ashby who went missing after taking his boat out. An empty vessel was found in Burlington.https://t.co/dLYQI2W4Zj
— 900 CHML (@AM900CHML) September 3, 2021
The City is reviewing plans for a proposed 14-storey residential tower at 11 Pleasant Blvd. That’s the site of a long-time convenience store. The project is opposite St. Clair Line 1 station. The store has been there forever and the picture above shows it in 2015 as a Mac’s. That lovely little parking lot may not be there much longer. Urban Toronto
The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says August home sales slowed from the frantic pace seen earlier in the year, but market conditions have tightened as supply fell by 43 percent and prices rose yet again. The Ontario board announced Friday that 8,596 homes were sold in August, a 19.9 percent drop from 10,738 at the same time last year and an eight percent fall from 9,368 in July. New listings in the region fell to 10,609. That was down 43 percent from 18,599 last August and 15 percent from 12,551 in July.
Toronto Fire Service has extinguished a two-alarm fire in an apartment residence on Penrose Rd. between Mt. Pleasant Rd. and De Savery Crescent Wednesday morning. Some 20 units responded and Penrose was closed for a period. Fire personnel at the scene said no one was injured.
Informative graphs reveal that Ontario hospital intensive care units are so far coping with the pandemic of the unvaccinated. Above, a graph showing that more than 80 percent of ICU cases are among those without vaccine protection. Cases by vaccine status in Ontario have seemed consistent. Below, overall infection is running two out of three unvaccinated and general hospitalizations are three out of four unvaccinated.
A man is dead in an early morning fire on the seventh floor of the apartment at 77 Huntley Street Wednesday. Temporarily displaced tenants huddled outside the building as firefighters extinguished the blaze.
Tuesday has dawned with Covid-age excitement focussed on that oh-so-essential pandemic curiosity the vaccination passport. The government was said to be ready to announce such a scheme this morning but CTV is saying that the cabinet was unable to agree upon a scheme presented to it Monday evening. As a result, Premier Ford is said to have asked that changes be made to the certificate plan. It is now said to be unclear when the program could be rolled out, CTV says.
Quebec passport hacked
Meanwhile, there’s been a cyberattack targetting Quebec’s digital vaccine certificates. This may portend challenges ahead for the upcoming Ontario vaccine passport, and others. The Journal de Montreal reported that hackers obtained some QR codes tied to Quebec’s vaccine passport campaign, including those belonging to Premier François Legault and Health Minister Christian Dubé. Quebec’s vaccine passport is scheduled to roll out on Wednesday. Did someone say Covid is running humans like a lawnmower?
