A truck driver is in hospital with serious injuries after a transport truck rolled over on Highway 407 in Brampton. Firefighters used hydraulic jaws equipment to free him from the wreckage, Peel Paramedic Services said.
President Donald Trump threatened North Korea and its leader on Tuesday during his first United Nation address. Trump called North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “Rocket Man,” a reference to the country’s recent missile and nuclear tests and said he was on “a suicide mission.” “We will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea,” Trump said, before adding that “hopefully this will not be necessary.” Trump’s comments come after Kim said the nation would continue working on its various weapons programs despite international condemnation. North Korea has also threatened U.S. territory Guam and has fired missiles over U.S. ally Japan — Time
Toronto Fire Service extinguished a single alarm residential fire at Erskine Ave. and Elvina Gardens Tuesday morning. Twelve units responded.
Black Lives Matter demonstrators blocked the intersection of Yonge and Bloor Sts. Tuesday during rush hour to protest a possible deportation of a Jamiacan woman who recently gave birth here. Beverly Braham came to Canada and married a Canadian.
Protest still blocking Yonge and Bloor. Many frustrated drivers saying this is not the way to do it. pic.twitter.com/CAkbGOZGhP
— NEWSTALK1010 (@NEWSTALK1010) September 19, 2017
That Balliol St. pickling wife and mom Dina Rock has just put down another season of Mighty Fine Brine dills. Here she is seen with Andy Elder as the shelf at Grilltime on Laird Drive is re-stocked. Try the horseradish dills. The red two-wheeler is a Dropbike seen on Yonge St. by Yonge and Roxborough News where it appears they are showing up more frequently. Dropbike is in tough we are thinking against the City of Toronto’s well-funded Bike Share plan in the cycling world’s dream of reinventing transport. No really. Take a ride. Below in poster-form, some genuine examples of God’s work as the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office and Leaside United Church hold commendable events. Thank you both from our benighted conscience.
New signs on the former Four Seasons Auto Collision building at 199 Laird Drive reveal the property is now in the hands of the Crombie REIT, a real estate investment trust which is said to be located in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. It was established in 2006 and says it is one of the country’s leading national retail property landlords with a strategy of “owning, operating and developing a portfolio of high quality grocery and drug store anchored shopping centres, freestanding stores and mixed use developments primarily in Canada’s top urban and suburban markets.” Four Seasons Auto at 199 Laird sold for $10.5 million
Toys “R” Us has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and will seek similar protection in Canada under the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act. Toys “R” Us has a $5 billion debt incurred in unstated operations. It is saying it will continue its normal business operations. Toys “R” Us said court-supervised proceedings would permit it to set the stage for long-term growth. “The company’s approximately 1,600 Toys R Us and Babies R Us stores around the world — the vast majority of which are profitable — are continuing to operate as usual,” the company statement added. “Customers can also continue to shop for the toy and baby products they are looking for online.”
The salad bar restaurant at 1581 Bayview Ave has opened and closed within a few days with no explanation at the location of this unlikely sequence. The sign of agent Andrew Lin hangs in the window of Untold indicating the business (some say the building) is for sale. Strange as can be. These pictures are from the story on the imminent opening just two weeks ago.
They were talking two weeks to opening as The Bulldog sniffed impatiently around the Amsterdam Brewery Barrel House at 87 Laird Drive in the Leaside Village Monday. There are some nice features like the newly cloistered patio, hemmed in by friendly wood and rock fences, with the rocks held in sturdy metal gabions. Inside, through a window, we see a wall of barrels. Also striking the barrel note, a fountain of (ahem) barrels. Looks like fun.
Businessmen and women in the Leaside Business Park are proposing a large Business Improvement Area which would include small shops on Eglinton east of Sutherland Drive to industries such as Del Equipment truck fabrication on Laird Dr., to the East York Town Centre in Thorncliffe Park. The BIA, as proposed, would also include the SmartCentre and all its tenants like Winners as well as the unbuilt Costco. A meeting has been held and pending matters were identified as follows: final boundaries, proposed budget, agreement of the many merchants and businesses in the proposed space and the need to spread the word. Mail from organizer Ian Morton to more than three dozen businesses and individuals speaks of the BIA as a “seat at the table” with the City on issues such as infrastructure investment, research studies, beautification, safety/security and marketing the area “as an excellent place” to do business.
ZONING TO BE RATIONALIZED?
For many, the size and sheer spread of this concept will be alien to known BIAs. They normally bring together merchants on a single street or adjoining streets. But as Morton noted, there are two or three other such giant BIAs in operation. The proposal may well raise the matter of consistent zoning which on the surface does not exist within the proposed area. That and the status of businesses now operating outside the industrial status of the land east of Laird may now be rationalized. A second meeting is set for Wednesday, September 27, with other details to come.
Hockey moms and dads will be familiar with the Hockey Canada rule requiring 6-year-olds to play on a small rink — so-called Cross-Ice or Half-Ice pads. In North York there is a lot of resentment as reported by Cristina Howorun of City News.
Two people rushed to hospital after four-vehicle crash in Ledbury Parkhttps://t.co/hgrkahhDLB pic.twitter.com/Rre1oC8awQ
— CP24 (@CP24) September 18, 2017
Five people were injured in an accident involving four vehicles at Lawrence Ave. West and Grey Rd. Monday morning. It appears the driver of a car trying to enter westbound traffic failed to yield. The car landed on the lawn of a home on the corner of Lawrence and Grey. Two occupants were taken to hospital with serious injuries but non-life-threatening injuries. Two children and one adult, were treated for minor injuries.
