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.

Tossed by the Wind

Crash at Hwy 400 south of Finch Ave/OPP

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.

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

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

The Chinese government is shameless. It wants a human rights investigation of Canada. Hey President-for-Life Xi, call an election.

ITV continues exposé of Amazon wastage

Just how much unsold stuff is simply destroyed by Amazon in its many warehouses around the world? In the UK, ITV News continues to expose this waste.

Ontario schools — competition versus learning?

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.

SERRA opposes over-development

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.

Here they come/Bulldog

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.

• Bessborough “plays host” to WXPZ News from Delaware”>Bessborough “plays host” to WXPZ News from Delaware

Amazon, the big smiley box company that ships you everything, imports so much unsold stuff to its warehouses that it has to crush much of it en masse. Don’t ask what they do with the wreckage.

Toronto clears homeless from Trinity Bellwods Park

The City has decided that enough is enough, apparently, when it comes to the homeless encampment in Trinity Bellwoods Park on Queen St West.

Old Tomorrow taken away but his legacy lives on

Tell us again why we’re supposed to hate John A Macdonald? Yes, he was a devious, procrastinating and somewhat crooked rascal known as Old Tomorrow. But he built the CPR. Will the national guilty conscience now demand that the rails be ripped up?

New home at 154 Hamilton St sold for $1.7 million

This narrow residence is at 154 Hamilton St north of Dundas St and east of Broadview Ave. It was finished in recent months and has been offered for as much as three million. In the end, it was taken for $ 1.7 million. Toronto Sun back story.