Amazon has swallowed organic grocer Whole Foods in one big bite. The capacity of Amazon to create business has grocery analysts running around in circles Friday. Amazon will pay $42 US a share or $13.7 billion in cash for Whole Foods’ shares, a 27 per cent premium to what Whole Foods was worth on Thursday. There are 13 Whole Foods stores in Canada.
Metrolinx has posted this photo which seems to be a site similar to the Laird Station where the excavation will be “mined” as opposed dug out while open to the street (open cut) They say “work is set to begin, and in no time at all, it will look something like this deep beneath Eglinton and Laird. Crosstown Community Relations Specialist Heather Glicksman and Crosslinx’s Pat Swanek (created) this short video to explain important details about this work – including what can be expected over coming weeks and months.” https://youtu.be/
The Supreme Court of Canada has surprised some who tried to second-guess it. They thought the SCOC might adjust its recent ruling that unless a case against a criminal accused is heard in 18 months it must be thrown out. But the court voted 7-0 in an appeal reported today which sustains that limit. This expectation has many Crown Attorneys and police services reeling as they try to figure out how to move matters along when it may well be in the interest of the accused to slow them down. They are concerned that many cases are getting tossed out since the SCOC’s decision in the so-called Jordan case last year. Oddly, the divide among the justices at that time was 5-4. The appeal before the court this time was that of a Newfoundland accused drug dealer who waited five years for a five-day trial. CBC story provides some nuancing on court’s intentions and a seven-year case where the accused manipulated the system to create delays.
Residents of Moore Park are reminded again Friday morning how names like Moore Park have been spirited away to other parts of the City to add a little lustre to the neighborhood. Thus we have the collision of a car into a vacant house on Moore Park Avenue, a locale far from its Midtown inspiration centred on Mt. Pleasant Rd. and St. Clair Ave. E. This avenue is southwest of Steeles Ave and Yonge Street St. in the Newtonbrook area of North York. Two women were trapped in the vehicle and had to extricated by the fire department. Police say there may have been some drinking going on. CBC photo/ Twitter
The federal government in no less a presence than the prime minister himself has rejected a scheme to tax Netflix service in Canada with the money to be given to struggling newspapers. In recent times, many companies still publishing on paper have called for such a subsidy in the name of the protection of democracy. A noble cause if there is a connection. In the case of the Toronto Star, they have also called for the CBC to be forbidden advertising presumably to make the market easier for papers.
It was a lively late afternoon and evening on Mt. Pleasant Rd. as the BIA once again held its Shop, Wine and Dine event Thursday. There were many musical groups and tasty nibbles to be had. Below are the Pepper Shakers rocking the corner of Hillsdale Ave. Watch for the cameo appearance of Shirley Breen, manager of Meridian Credit Union.
Traffic was snarled on Laird Drive Thursday afternoon when a delivery truck clipped a utility pole on the west side of the street outside AML Auto Service opposite Industrial St. Traffic southbound was re-routed onto Stickney Ave at Gyro Mazda and then along Randolph Rd. The blockage might take a while because wires hanging low over Laird need to be re-strung.
The pilot of this promotional blimp parachuted but is suffering burns. The fire broke out as the blimp cruised over the US Open. It went down in a plume of smoke and crashed in a field.
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Take your pick but they’re not moveable like pictures over the sofa. At left is Phlegm’s rendering of a woman made up of bits of Toronto. In Paris, Spanish street artist Okuda has painted a multi-cultural version of the Mona Lisa on a building in the French capital.
