A member of the Leaside Community Facebook group has posted a “heads up” notice about the theft of her wallet from a purse about 2.30 p.m.Thursday while she was in the Starbucks on Bayview Ave opposite Belsize Drive. She says that within six minutes the thief had put $2,000 in US funds on her Visa card. There is a fairly long thread growing late this afternoon with many people expressing regret. One notes that she was followed by a “young guy” who she “ditched at Value Mart.” Among the items lost in the wallet theft were baby pictures, it is posted.

Ward 25 Safety Meeting

Prom Drive

Laugh Out Loud in Leaside #9

Shrove Tuesday

PA Day Horse Camp

Leaside United Shrove Tuesday February 13

Northlea Shrove Tuesday

St. Luke’s Anglican Shrove

From the upper left, Jaye Robinson’s Ward 25 Safety Meeting is February 20. Chief Saunders will be there. Friend Patrick Rocca posts the New Circles Prom Drive details. They’re working on this until April 23 for kids who need that rite of passage called Prom Night. Next, friend Charlene Kalia’s good works extend to Laugh Out Loud in Leaside #9. It is often sold out. Shrove Tuesday is next week so plan now to support your local church by enjoying some yummy pancakes. Centre left, who knew there was a PA Day Horse Camp? Giddy Up.

The Ontario PC party says it will have an online, two-stage verification process for what it says will be an “open, transparent” voting process. The party says that members will be mailed a verification number and will be asked to verify the membership information on file. Members will also be asked to send in a photographed or signed copy of identification documents to be able to vote once membership information is verified. CBC 

• TDSB revises U.S. travel ban to allow certain trips
• TVO host Steve Paikin among few accused to fight harassment allegations

One in regulation, one in the shootout

James van Riemsdyk sealed a 3-2 win for the #MapleLeafs over the #Preds. https://t.co/jXdw69Xabi

— 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 Canada 🇨🇦 (@sportingnewsca) February 8, 2018

The man known as JVR scored two Wednesday night at ACC, including a solid shootout goal, to lift the Leafs to a 3-2 win over a plucky Predators team that had battled back from a 2-0 deficit. Game highlights on YouTube

Sandra and Bob Donaldson/Lotto 649 release

A retired couple from Smithville east of Hamilton has been revealed as the winners of a $23.3-million Lotto 649 jackpot. Bob and Sandra Donaldson were overjoyed and overwhelmed (as shown above) when they picked up their cheque at Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation headquarters in Toronto Wednesday. They have been married for 36 years and plan only modest goals with their winnings.They will share with family and buy a new car. Oh yeah, they need a walk-in closet. Mr. Donaldson is a manager at Dofasco (the Dominion Foundry and Steel Co) and was in China on the job when Sandra found out about the lottery win. She didn’t tell him until nearly a week later when he came home. The CBC took this to conclude that Donaldson had 23 million reasons to forgive Sandra for forgetting to clean up after their dog, as he had asked. The precise sum of the win is $23,324,912.20.

Temporary move in Fall

Tanya Wiles-Bell

Resolutions

Dufflebag Theatre

Nebuchadnezzar sized bottle

Upper left, Kindergarten parents (present and future) at Davisville Public School were briefed Tuesday night about the coming temporary move to Vaughan Road Academy while a new DPS is constructed on Millwood Rd. As the graphic shows, it will be two years before children from Davisville Village will be able move into their new three-story school just east of Yonge St. Right, Tanya Wiles-Bell is the team leader of LUCY, the Leaside United Church stalwarts who will participate in the nationwide walk-a-thon and fundraiser called the Coldest Night of the Year on Feb. 24. Its goal is to educate the public about poverty and homelessness across Canada and there is a nice story in the Toronto Observer. Centre left, Alok Tomar of Leaside Insurance has tweeted some useful resolutions for 2018. Below that, a peek in at the kids of the Duffelbag Theatre at Davisville Public. Click the photo and see how engrossed they are. Finally at the right, the folks at Avenue Bistro are tweeting how much they would love to have that giant-sized bottle of wine known as a Nebuchadnezzar. Be careful, God struck down this prideful fellow (according to Daniel) but perhaps not for drinking wine.

Car crossed centre line colliding with truck/@OPP_NER

OPP Northeast detachment say several people are dead following a collision between a transport and car north of Nobel on Tuesday afternoon about 4 p.m..The crash happened on Highway 69 in Shawanaga Township, about 20 kilometres north of the community, said Sgt. Carlo Berardi of Ontario Provincial Police. A northbound car crossed the centre line and collided with the southbound transport. The car caught fire. All the deceased were in the car. The scene is on a remote stretch of the Trans Canada Highway heading to Sudbury.

Snow fun in the Rolph Road playground (Twitter / @RolphRoadSchool)

Twitter / @CBCToronto

? Randy Risling / @randyrizz

The special snow notice from Environment Canada predicts a range of 5 to 10 cm by the time the snow tapers off this afternoon. Snow amounts are expected to be below the snowfall warning criteria of 15 cm or more within 12 hours,

Rachel Notley and John Horgan

No BC wine

Keep your hydro

Alberta Premier Rachel Notely has told her BC counterpart John Horgan to take his wine and stick it. She’s banned it from Alberta liquor stores and encouraged consumers to treat it like poison. Same thing goes for BC electricity. Not welcome in Edmonton or anywhere else in Alberta. It’s the war that kicks NDP fretting about the environment to the sidelines as Notely fights for petroleum jobs and an economy that stands on two legs — oil and oil. Horgan’s government depends on its continued existence from the Green Party. He is saying that his resistance to the Kinder Morgan Pipeline should not be the cause of a trade war. Kinder Morgan has been approved by the federal government. Their interest in moving Canadian crude to the sea grows daily as the new world of hardball trade with the US is all too real. Canada hopes to find markets to sustain the country’s nearly 80 years of unparalleled prosperity in a world where it may no longer be the biggest trade partner to the Americans. Now add the growing worry over Canada’s merchandise trade deficit. It was a ballooning $3.2 billion in December as rising imports outpaced export growth.

Expensive Tesla ad?

We’re not judging understand. But we can’t quite grasp the meaning of the “special payload” in today’s Elon Musk spectacular. You decide. Then harrowing motor news as cars and trucks slam into each other in the fog on the highway from Dubai to Abu Dhabi. Frightening. Below that, the Berlin Wall has now been down for longer than it stood. Cold War hero Willy Brandt called it the Wall of Shame and so it was. Finally, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has had a bulldozer roll over some smuggled luxury cars in a lesson to the perpetrators.