Chris Salmond, a life-long resident of East York. has died at the age of 80. Chris was a member of the East York Historical Society, the East York Canada Day Committee and many other neighbourhood groups. His role as a fatherly majordomo in organizing dozens of bewildered participants and their floats in the Canada Day Parade is legendary. Chris was a fixture for years as a school crossing guard in his retirement. He was a graduate of Danforth Collegiate (1956).
Keven Menager, Community Manager of the Mount Pleasant Village BIA, has noted the official opening of the new Shoppers Drug Mart in the Briton House building at 710 Mt. Pleasant Rd. Mr. Menager indicates in this post that the Shoppers space at 759 Mt. Pleasant is now available for lease at $55 sq. ft.
The Champlain Towers condo building that collapsed in Surfside had been sinking at a steady rate for years, according to research from Florida International University. At time of writing, 4 people have been confirmed dead and 159 still unaccounted for. While studying satellite data from the 1990s, university earth sciences professor Shimon Wdowinski discovered evidence that parts of Miami Beach and Surfside have been gradually sinking for years. In a video interview, Wdowinski said that included the precise spot of Thursday’s building collapse.
Oh dear, here comes Windows 11
The prospect of struggling through a whole new Windows update may send many users screaming into the street
Emily Carr painting fetches $3 million at auction
Emily Carr
The celebrated BC Indigenous painter Emily Carr hobnobbed during her life with members of the Group of Seven. Now her work Tossed by the Wind (below) has broken a record by fetching more than $3 million at a Toronto auction. Another of Carr’s later compositions, 1937’s “Swirl,” which she gifted to contemporary Lawren Harris, exceeded expectations with a $2.3 million sale.
The Brown Group residential and commercial mid-rise on Bayview Ave has been branded as The Stack. The news comes in an article in Urban Toronto without an explanation of just what the name might mean. The development took on the name 730 Hillsdale last summer but that may have been too much like a street address. Anyway, good luck to The Stack. Is that like in “Stack ’em up boys” and other stack sayings? You know, blowing one’s stack, does that stack up and so on.
One person has died in a long tangle of vehicles Thursday morning on Highway 400 southbound south of Finch Ave. OPP video narration below says it began when a tractor-trailer ran into the rear of a vehicle in slow traffic.
Fatal collision: #Hwy400 SB south of Finch. Loaded transport truck collided into slowing/stopped traffic causing a 7 vehicle wreck. Investigation and cleanup will take hours. Expect delays and avoid the area. pic.twitter.com/1wD16nn3RW
— OPP Highway Safety Division (@OPP_HSD) June 24, 2021
SB 400 is closed between Finch & the 401 due to a fatal collision & vehicle fire. About 4-5 vehicles involved. NB 400 the left shoulder is blocked by emergency crews responding. 1 person has been killed and OPP say that this closure could last the next 6-7 hours @breakfasttvpic.twitter.com/eIR4yq9mZ9
Barber equipment, vector illustration. Realistic hairdresser tools mirror, scissors, comb, hairdryer, hair clipper, shave brush, shaving foam, barber pole other haircut and beard grooming accessories.
Ontario will permit legal haircuts and beauty care starting June 30. On the same day it will also be permitted to stage larger outdoor gatherings of up to 25 people and smaller indoor gatherings of up to five people. The government update below took place Thursday morning.
Dr. Patricia Linders, 586 Eglinton East, is set to retire at the end of July. Many of her friends and former patients recall her caring treatment of children in the neighbourhood and want to wish her well. FB
Lotto dress up fun promotes government lottery/Kingston Herald
After going unclaimed for weeks, the $70 million Lotto Max jackpot has finally been won. A ticket sold in British Columbia and another in Ontario will share the grand prize, each taking $35 million in Tuesday night’s draw. In addition, there are 46 Maxmillion prize winners. Twenty-one winning tickets were sold in Ontario, 11 in B.C., 10 in Quebec and four in the Prairies. The jackpot for the next draw on June 25 will be an estimated $50 million, with two Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each up for grabs — City News.
Canada Square and deserted bus yard are owned by the City
SERRA, the South Eglinton Ratepayers and Residents Association, has issued a battle cry to members and friends over plans to increase the density of the Canada Square site by as much as 250 percent. This is City-owned land on the southwest corner of Yonge and Eglinton which will be redeveloped as the Eglinton LRT is completed. The redevelopment is planned by Oxford Properties. That’s the pension plan of Ontario Municipal Employees. SERRA is asking residents for support at a critical meeting next Monday (June 28) at the Planning and Housing Committee (PHC). It suggests a letter shown in the draft below. Whether you compose an email or write a letter, it should be sent to: phc@toronto.ca
Call it the Battle of Trinity Bellwoods Park. Dozens of homeless people who want to live — at least in the summer — in a box in a City Park. And Tuesday they put up quite a battle when police came to reclaim the place for a different use.
Film cameras will return to a favourite Leaside haunt on Bessborough Drive this week starting Thursday. The notice below has been delivered to homes in the area.
