Collision: Somers Ave/ Donlands Ave.. 4 vehs involved. Occupants of 1 veh have fled. SB Donlands closed. #GO1594529 ^adc

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) September 3, 2017

Joseph Howarth/Toronto Hydro

Hydro has tweeted the bad news that unexpected “equipment failure” continues to leave as many as 5,000 customers in the dark even though the utility had said it expected to have things fixed by 1 p.m. The curious outages are in “pockets” according to Hydro, testing no doubt the understanding of laymen and maybe some engineers too. The power failures hit about 6 a.m in an area defined as Ossington, St Clair, Mt. Pleasant and College. Police warned that traffic signals were out as well. There was also an outage in West Hill where some customers seem to feel forgotten as far as updates are concerned.  One tweet from Dalek Deegue complained about the lack of information at the Toronto Hydro outage map. This is a place which purports to show outages but frequently shows nothing. See tweets here

Nothing showing

https://twitter.com/12upSport/status/904130030086889474

Blue Jays right-hander Marcus Stroman took a hard drive smack on the elbow Saturday but fortunately was spared a broken bone in his pitching arm. He was down and struggled to regain his feet after being hit by a drive from Mark Trumbo of the Orioles  Blue Jays officials say the injury is an elbow contusion and X-rays are negative. Jays won 7-2

Police have intensified their search for 9-year-old Maëlys de Araujo in the French alps after they concluded that neither of two men being held had anything to do with the girl’s disappearance. Maëlys vanished at a wedding last weekend in Pont-de-Beauvoisin. Donald Trump was in Houston Saturday meeting the overwhelmed residents of the flood-stricken City. In Budapest, a sporting contest to swim the Danube between the ancient municipalities of Buda and Pest is under way. And in Toronto, a man has set a Guinness Record for a bee beard. This crowd-pleasing spectacle took place in Yonge Dundas Square this week.

Toronto police will not be issuing tickets for most street parking bylaws on Labour Day Monday, a practice they began earlier this year on long weekends. Exempted areas include parking meters, rush-hour routes and signs for bylaws normally enforced Monday to Friday. Other parking offences csuch as no stopping, no standing and parking in front of a fire hydrant will be enforced.

After a wait, woman’s number is called

Abbas Kolia calls out numbers for free backpacks

Premier says hello

Scooby Doo attraction

Pigeons displaced by festival

Political presence

Young and old

Hundreds of families won free backpacks and other prizes like calculators and lunch boxes on Saturday at the sixth annual Thorncliffe Park Tenants Association and the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office event Saturday at the East York Town Centre parking lot. The gifts were handed out by ticket number to residents during the day by tenants association president Abbas Kolias. Corporate donors were important contributors to the success of the gathering. There was a full political presence — Premier Wynne, MP Rob Oliphant and Ward 26 Councillor Jon Burnside were all there. Pigeons which normally reside in the west end of the large EYTC parking lot found themselves relegated to the mall roof. Occasionally they made a swooping protest flyover of the event tents.

Robyn Hochglaube (right) and close friend

Principals Sandra Larosa and Barbara Sandler/Janis Fertuck Twitter

East York Bulldogs

Above is Robyn Hochglaube with a close young friend. Robyn is the owner, operator and serene oversight at Leaside Community Facebook page, a busy franchise she started five years ago (already) when she moved to Leaside. The page has some 5,000 members and is visited frequently by The Bulldog. Upper right, the new principals at Rolph Road and Northlea Schools, Sandra Larosa and Barbara Sandler. They are interviewed by Janis Fertuck here.  And then, Rob Granatstein has tweeted this picture of the East York Bulldogs. He remarks on their fantastic defence in provincial play Friday. Looking good guys. Great name for a baseball team.

The price of regular gasoline at the Esso station on Mt. Pleasant Rd. at Merton St. has broken the highest guesses for the hurricane-crisis spike in the cost of fuel. It sits Saturday at $1.34 a litre, two cents higher than estimated.

Over City Hall at noon hour

Hello Toronto!

Trooping the Colours at Nathan Phillips Square

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How do you get 24 aircraft together to fly over #Toronto? Watch this to see! The flags during the opening sequence are the #RCAF Colours! pic.twitter.com/JXvSaJRfzo

— Royal Canadian Air Force (@RCAF_ARC) September 1, 2017

The sign at the Esso compound at Merton St. and Mt. Pleasant Rd. says regular gasoline is $1.25 a litre for all practical purposes. Don’t ask about triple high-test. And there is worse to come. Analysts estimate regular will hit $1.32 a litre by Saturday morning. Many pumping gas on Mt. Pleasant were bitter. There’s no shortage of fuel in Canada. International marketing is in full possession of pricing. Canadians hurt when the Americans hurt, even if it has nothing to do with Canada. Not to be ungenerous, the states of Texas and Louisiana are going through hell. Apart from much else, Hurricane Harvey has shut down as many as 14 refineries.