Audra Brown of City News reports on a little known seed perpetuating program available at 21 Toronto Public Library branches. The public may take the seeds and are honour bound to replace them from their own garden growth. It seems to be focussed on vegetables but that isn’t said so maybe horticulturists can inquire as well.
Uber has been kicked out of London by the local transportation authority. It finds Uber kind of sneaky. Then, Cynthia Mulligan of City News on Toronto buyer’s remorse over the 20 year (!) contract with Tuggs Inc to rule prime Beach waterfront. What were they thinking or doing? Then, Prince Harry has his own fan base waiting when he arrives at Scotia Plaza Friday. Finally, remarkable video of a family pulled safely from its overturned sailboat by a Royal Navy helicopter off Puerto Rico
Sunnybrook veterans were able to enjoy the pleasant September weather Friday on an excursion which took them to the Eglinton Square Shopping Centre food court. This sunlit space is located off a not very busy approach to the mall from residential Englehart Crescent.
Saturday will see the re-opening off the Lower Don Trail with a ceremony attended by Mayor Tory and others at the new Pottery Road trail bridge. It begins at 9.50 a.m with remarks at ten. This is at the south side of Todmorden Mills. Media parking is available at Todmorden Mills parking lot. Also present will be Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon (Ward 32 Beaches-East York), Chair of the City’s Parks and Environment Committee, Councillor Mary Fragedakis (Ward 29 Toronto-Danforth) and Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 27 Toronto Centre-Rosedale). The event will begin with a bike ride from Evergreen Brick Works to the Pottery Road Trail Bridge and will include food, games, music and activities at locations along the trail including the Cloverleaf, Riverdale Park East and Corktown Common.
The Crown has begun its opening statement in the trial of former Dalton McGuinty aides Laura Miller and David Livingston Friday morning in Toronto. They are accused of breach of trust and mischief in the erasure and deletion of records including email related to the infamous election-eve cancellation of two gas-fired power plants in 2010. This summary by Mike Crawley says the evidence includes ten banker’s boxes of documents and exhibits brought to court on a dolly this morning. CBC
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Police say a man was injured in a road rage incident in the parking lot at Upper Canada Mall in York Region Friday morning when he fell off the top of his car. He was up there, it appears, to escape another person who was trying to knock him down. An air ambulance landed at the mall about 7.50 a.m. and took the man to Sunnybrook HSC. Strange happenings.
The Invictus Games flag visited Sunnybrook Veterans Centre Thursday. It was duly honoured but hope of seeing the game’s creator, Harry, was in vain. Toronto Star
There has been another fall of glass windows from a high floor of the Four Seasons Hotel at Yorkville and Bay Sts. Thursday afternoon. This is the fifth such rain of glass onto the street since the hotel opened in 2015. The fall was called “substantial” by the fire service and occurred about 1.30 p.m when people and cars were in the street. Engineers are said to be at the scene assessing the structural stability of glass panels on the building. There has been concern elsewhere in downtown Toronto about falling glass as the City deals with an apparent syndrome of collapses from glass towers.
Cumbrae’s butcher shop is set to open Friday, September 22, according to a post on Instagram and elsewhere Thursday. The large new store is at 1589-1591 next to Badali’s Fruit on Bayview Ave.
The Federal Government has appealed the case of Alexander Vavilov, 23, and his brother Timothy, 27, to the Supreme Court of Canada in an effort to have the two deported. They are the sons of Russian spies, born here in the 1990s, as their parents reputedly lived the lives of “sleeper” agents, waiting to be ordered into action on behalf of the Kremlin. It is, as Maclean’s says, utterly stranger-than-fiction. The last-minute action by Ottawa and its purposes in seeking the expulsions is explained by Melanie Ing of City News, which is owned by Rogers Communications, owners of Maclean’s. Thursday, the court had yet to accept the case but it seems hard to imagine that SCOC will refuse to decide a matter of such intimate meaning to Canadian citizenship.
Eglinton Ave. remains closed at 8 p.m. Thursday as the Special Investigations Unit does its work in relation to the men who were stopped, and in one case, arrested by Toronto Police. The other seems to have gotten away. The SIU was there because a woman passenger in the car suffered a back injury.
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Eglinton & Rumsey, CLOSURE on Eglinton from Hanna to Sutherland & Rumsey from Eglinton, ongoing inv #GO1713904 ^cb— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) September 21, 2017
