A post to Leaside Community tells of a 2.30 a.m. Saturday egg attack on a home in Leaside. The owner asks if anyone recognizes the car or people in these photos. A comment from another person says: “Our house was egged a week ago Friday…a real mess.” She posts these views of the mess, very hard to clean.
The Video Wheel catches up with the pothole blitz courtesy of City News. Thank you. Then Sunday in the US saw urgent spasms from officials as they rushed to re-open tourist sites during the budgetary shutdown. This one is about a move to keep Statue of Liberty ferries at work. Below that, our headline photo/video feature on the principal at Union Pointe Academy in Florence, Kentucky. Chad Caddell sings snow day alerts and other urgent news to parents and kids. Here’s a bonus video on Facebook as Garth Brooks. Finally, protests in 34 countries by women with a kitchen sink of complaints ranging from #MeToo to the environment. They were chanting an ominous message of “Time’s Up.”
Early risers may find fog across Toronto Monday morning but it is expected to dissipate quickly. Forecasters say it may result in zero visibility Sunday night.
Becky McHugh of Corner Brook Newfoundland is one of many people getting a text purportedly from the CRA which when she clicked the link took her to a site where she was told to enter her Social Insurance Number. She did, and now she knows her identity is likely being stolen. Police say the most important thing to remember about the CRA is that it already knows your SIN. If you are asked to provide it, you can be sure you’re not talking to the CRA.
MP Rob Oliphant had Premier Wynne at his side (and two gentlemen) for pictures at his New Year’s levee Saturday at the Toronto Botanical Gardens on Lawrence Ave. Nice. But seriously, did you lose your keys on Millwood Rd. between Cleveland St. and McCord Rd? If so, PM Jessica Palombella from Leaside Community. Lower right, Leaside Junior Wildcats goalie Alysha Letwin shakes off the pain after a hard shot at Leaside arena Saturday night. The Wildcats dropped the game 3-1 to the Barrie Sharks. One goal went into the empty net. Then finally, Dimiter Todorov and family got a kick out of a brief hydro outage as they tried to cycle down Mortimer Ave. after dark
Denzil Minnan-Wong has been acclaimed as the PC candidate in Don Valley East to contest the riding against MPP Michael Coteau. Minnan-Wong is the long-standing member of City Council for Ward 34. The NDP has an unnominated prospective candidate in Khalid Ahmed. Don Valley East sits between Leslie St and Victoria Park Ave. It has been represented by Mr. Coteau since 2011. Minnan-Wong, a deputy mayor, received the nomination at a meeting held in the riding on Saturday morning. The Ontario general election is June 7, 2018.
Upper left, friends of Lambert Moo will wish to know that he is working Saturday and Sundays at Tao Northern Chinese Cuisine at 220 Laird Dr. Moo was the owner of the popular lunch spot Chai on Bayview for many years. Top centre, two Canadian novelists, R. J. Harlick and Ken Ogilvie, will be at the Sleuth of Baker Street at 907 Millwood Rd. on February 1 from 6 to 7.30 p.m. Top right, he’s back. The promotional figure gyrating outside Bros. Cuisine is known as an air dancer. Lower left, the restaurant space at 1614 Bayview is for lease. Old timers are hoping for the return of a simple menu eatery like Diner 55. It was there 15 years ago. Next, meet Rev Jeff Rock, the new pastor of Metropolitan Community Church in Riverdale. He takes over from Brent Hawkes. Moving right, it’s the last Mac’s parking sign in town as the Quebec firm that owns the name goes about turning Southern Ontario into Texas (Circle K that is). This one remains on a vacant store at the corner of Eglinton and Petman Ave. Finally, Residents are invited to drop off spare ice skates to the office of Davisville Junior Public School. They will go to good use on February 9 at the Annual Skate night at Hodgson Public School.
It’s been decided that 22 North Korean athletes will play in combined teams with those of the Republic of Korea (ROK) at the Winter Olympics in Peongchang, South Korea. What will they talk about in the Olympic Village? Defections anyone? Then, the Nutella folks, Ferrero, will buy the US brands of Nestles for $2.8 billion. Sweet. Below that, some gripping images of that Pegasus jet being lifted off a steep slope leading to the Black Sea in the Turkish town of Trabzon. Pegasus is a Turkish budget carrier. Finally, the Video Wheel posts the escape of a tow truck from an insane motorist on a highway in Michigan.
The frightening tangle of two trucks and car at O’Connor Drive and Dohme Ave. Friday about 5 p.m. has sent two people to hospital. The intersection has traffic signals and is northeast of the intersection of O’Connor and St.Clair Ave.
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Judge Timothy R. Lipson has found senior Dalton McGuinty aide David Livingston guilty of mischief and unlawful use of a computer in the notorious gas plant cover up scandal. His assistant, Laura Miller, was found not guilty. The Crown contended the accused had illegally erased emails from government computers to hide what had been said and done by the Liberal government ministers and staff on the eve of the 2010 general election. In convicting Mr Livingston, 65, Judge Lipson said the former chief of staff to former premier McGuinty was a sophisticated individual who knew exactly what he was doing.
BREAKING: Laura Miller not guilty, David Livingston guilty in Liberal gas plan email scandal. #onpoli https://t.co/1fgpH5elWe
— Toronto Sun (@TheTorontoSun) January 19, 2018
BREAKING: David Livingston found GUILTY of both charges in #onpoli #gasplants trial (still waiting for verdict on Laura Miller)https://t.co/H6TzW9UCE0
— Mike Crawley (@CBCQueensPark) January 19, 2018
Jurors have acquitted the three former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) railway employees charged with criminal negligence causing death in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. Locomotive engineer Tom Harding, 56, rail traffic controller Richard Labrie, 59, and operations manager Jean Demaître, 53, were all charged after the derailment of a runaway fuel train early on July 6, 2013. Several tankers, carrying highly volatile crude oil, exploded, turning downtown Lac-Mégantic into an inferno and killing 47 people. CBC
Creeds Coffee Bar and Dry Cleaning opened Friday at 1595 Bayview Ave. with brisk business and a few finishing touches still to come. Patrons were told that the storefront sign will be installed Monday. The espresso is a suitably solid jolt to the brain. Other South Bayview news includes (right) the Shrove Tuesday (so soon?) Pancake Dinner at St.Cuthbert’s Anglican at Bayview and St. Cuthbert’s Rd. Centre left, the Carnaval de Glendon will take place Saturday, January 27 just up the road at the Gendon campus. Ça à l’air amusant. Then below, duelling events of St. Cuthbert’s and Leaside United, a potluck dinner versus a Trivia night. Hard to choose but they both go this Saturday (tomorrow). Finally (lower right) the January 22 meeting to plot a future for the old Belsize (now Regent) Theatre.
