Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman epic is soaring to a $100 million opening weekend at the North American box office, estimates showed Friday. Should the first projections hold for the Warner Bros. sensation Wonder Woman and director Patty Jenkins will set a record for the top debut weekend for a film directed by a woman. Cindy Hsu of WCBS has an informative report on the film.
Walmart will now enlist its store employees to deliver packages to customers’ homes using their own cars in an effort to make its delivery system more competitive.In its most recent move against e-commerce challenger Amazon, the discount retailer announced Thursday that it will allow store employees to opt into a delivery service program that will have them drop off packages at customers’ homes on their drive home from work — Money Magazine
Forum Research has published a poll 18 months before the 2018 mayoral election which suggests that Mayor Tory and his old opponent Doug Ford are running more or less neck and neck in advance of the election year. For his part, Mr. Ford says he has an exploratory team at work on a possible run. But the Etobicoke businessman is well-known for his interest in provincial politics as well.
Authorities confirm that two people have died in the crash of a small propeller plane at Muskoka Airport on Friday. The wreckage was found in a ditch near the northbound lanes of Highway 11 with two occupants of the plane inside. OPP said the crash occurred around 5 p.m. More later.
Couche Tard, the Laval, Quebec firm which is among the largest corner store and gas bar owners in the world, is delivering on its plan to erase Mac’s from the face of Ontario. Yep. This is the Mac’s half-converted on the northeast corner of Mt. Pleasant Rd and Eglinton Ave.E. It began this week. Yee-haw! Circle K branding of Toronto by Night Owl begins
EXPOSURE:
Danforth Av + Broadview Av
-Naked man at rear of building
-Adult Learning Centre
-Running around
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^dh— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) June 2, 2017
Some residents of Redpath Ave. are complaining about midnight construction activity evidently related to sewer construction. An Internet activist, Stavros Rougas told CP24 that a team of contractors drove up to the front of an apartment building on 95 Redpath Avenue south of Eglinton East around 12:30 a.m. and started dragging heavy equipment down the road. “There was dirt and they’re coming in with some big construction pillars (and) other things they had to move. Basically, they were bashing and making lots of noise,” he told CP24.
The Rogers store on Brentcliffe Rd. was robbed by three men of merchandise and cash Friday morning about 10.30 a.m. It is believed no one was hurt. Such loot is easily converted to cash in street sales and is often sought out by drug addicts.
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No drivers have been found among the four TTC employees who have so far failed random drug and/or alcohol testing at the transit service. The four cases have been found in the first three and a half weeks of testing. The right to conduct such checks without prior warning was the subject of a bitter opposition by the transit workers union.
Buck, doe and fawn — the stranded deer family lost in a Scarborough plaza behind the stores — have been guided to safety by personnel from the Toronto Wildlife Society. They worked by night Thursday about 11 p.m. to get the job done. The deer, a pregnant female and an adult male were trapped in the lot Tuesday after bolting through an open gate upon coming into contact with a car near Eglinton Avenue and Kennedy Road. That gate was later locked, stranding them. The pregnant deer then gave birth to a fawn on Wednesday. All three deer are doing fine. Deer abound in Toronto and the curious creatures find their way into many places like backyards on Manor Road. Photos CP24, CTV by Twitter
Progressive Conservative candidate Ross Romano has won the Sault Ste. Marie byelection defeating both the NDP and Liberal candidates. The riding had been held since 2003 by former former Liberal cabinet minister David Orazietti. It is a dramatic turnaround for the PCs who trailed in third place in the 2014 general election and is the second byelection the party has won in recent months.
