Apple is reported to be planning to use advanced organic light-emitting diode displays (OLED) in all new iPhone models launched from the second half of 2018. The OLED displays are brighter as well as bendable. Nikkei Asian Review 

The truck driver has confessed to falling asleep as he drove the Autobahn near the Austrian City of Linz. He hit a bridge and caused this terrible mess as his load of 7,500 chickens was dumped out. The unfortunate accident has inspired (if that’s the word) dreary chicken puns such as the fowl mood created and the egg-stremely difficult cleanup. There were many variations on the chicken crossing the road too.

TFS personnel were still at the scene of the four-alarm fire Thursday that tore through homes on Argyle St. opposite the Osler Playground in Trinity-Bellwoods. The fire started about 5 p.m. Wednesday and ultimately damaged six homes. Earlier post

Patisserie La Cigogne Tortiere

Bernnitta Hawkins of The Red Door Shelter

Wow!

Mighty Oak on Canada Day

Our hard-working news finders have produced this curation of east end and Upper Beach news starting with that scrumptious-looking Tortiere pie seen at Patisserie La Cigogne at 1219 Danforth Ave. (and 1626 Bayview Ave.). Inside Toronto reports that Bernnitta Hawkins, the long-time executive director of the Red Door Family Shelter will retire from the Leslieville haven after 14 years at the helm on November 30, 2017. Thank you Bernnitta. And there was a surprising fall of a mighty Beach oak on a calm Canada Day morning on Scarborough Road in the Upper Beach. No one was hurt but it took a while to round up service personnel to deal with the huge tree and put power lines back together.

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@CP24 major fire on argyle st west of ossington pic.twitter.com/69bINQlyUo

— Devin Glowinski (@dglowinski) July 5, 2017

Toronto Fire has knocked down this raging blaze that engulfed as many as three homes on Argyle Ave. in the west-end of Toronto northwest of Queen W and Ossington Ave. So far there are no reports of injury. More as available.

The German engineering conglomerate Siemens says the Ontario government broke its own rules for tendering contracts by handing a $528-million sole-sourced contract to French manufacturer Alstom for 61 light-rail vehicles. Among other uses, the cars would provide a substitute for vehicles from Bombardier if that firm fails to deliver as required. Siemens wrote to Steven Del Duca in May suggesting the province was violating its own policies in awarding a contract without a competitive tender process. The letter also said that the awarding of the contract “effectively eliminates Siemens from competition for future light-rail car procurement in Ontario, thus causing us irreparable harm.” “We believe the decision violates the government’s own procurement directive,” Siemens Canada President and CEO Robert Hardt said. In the letter, Hardt said that Siemens was “extremely disappointed” with the province’s decision and will be “exploring all options available” to it to respond to the decision. Cabinet drops Bombardier, orders LRT trains from France

City Council has voted overwhelmingly to disregard its own planning by approving a 24-storey condo tower at 90 Eglinton West, a neighborhood that is approved for midrise buildings with a maximum height of seven or eight storeys. Josh Matlow (Ward 22) and Christin Carmichael-Greb (Ward 16) were among councillors to vote against the motion, which was approved 35 to 6.  City staff recommended allowing the high-rise and to only replace only 50 per cent of the six-storey office space at the Pilot Building near Henning Street. Star

The East York Farmer’s Market is held Tuesday from 8 to 2 until October at the East York Civic Centre at 850 Coxwell. Photos: East York Farmers Market/Twitter 

Lawn Summer Nights charity lawn bowling returns to the Leaside Lawn Bowling Club on Hanna Road this month with the first such evening to be held Thursday, July 6. Others will run July 13, 20 and 27. LSN raises money for cystic fibrosis research and is supported by the accounting firm KPMG. The national lawn bowling night is marked by themed (sometimes hilarious) costumes. Team names are outlandish. Past examples are Guaca-BOWLE, High BOWLERS, The BOWL-erinas. This year people may observe the fun with a $20 specator pass. Website

Molly on the road

In style

Relaxing

Let’s go

With Rem

Leaside business owner Warren Porter likes to tootle around on his Vespa. But Porter, owner of Iron Gate Private Wine Management on Laird Drive, has added a sidecar to this company transportation and he is often seen with his dog Molly aboard. She is widely known by her extensive gallery on Instagram as #sidecarmolly, a nickname that is inscribed on the Vespa. Sometimes wife Rem is out and about with Molly. It’s a dog’s life.

2 Bros Cuisine

Star Catering closed

Forman Ave wires

Shawarma

A Middle Eastern influenced restaurant will open at the former Rosie’s shortly. It’s 2 Bros. Cuisine, a new outlet of an established business at 1500 Royal York Road. The menu looks tempting.  Shawarma is the sliced presentation in various forms of spit-roasted lamb, chicken, turkey, beef, veal and buffalo, according to Wikipedia. We don’t guarantee you’ll find buffalo on Bayview. Upper right, Star Catering at 900 Millwood has closed and will be replaced by a new restaurant. More to come. And on Forman Ave., big trucks are still playing havoc with low-hanging local wiring. The street was blocked south of Eglinton Tuesday and neighbours say it is the second time in a month.

A video has emerged of Drake on stage at Nathan Philiups Square with his impromptu performance Sunday night. High energy but not exactly melodious. Next, in Los Angeles a plus size model calls out the guy next to her on a flight who was texting insults about her weight to a friend. And the heartbreaking case of a naive Chinese girl who had hardly landed in the US before she was lured into a car by a man who is now accused of killing her. Finally, the North Korean chill gets colder as they trumpet their alleged first ICBM firing. What a lot China has to answer for as it keeps this despicable regime alive.