The convulsion of renovation going on at the Loblaws store at 301 Moore Ave. will include a new Starbucks counter. It’s a business pattern that both Loblaws and Starbucks are pursuing with diligence it seems. Starbucks gets guaranteed customers and Loblaws gives shoppers a reason to come in.
TTC Line 1 will be closed between Finch and St. Clair stations on Saturday and Sunday while crews perform TTC platform relocation and associated LRT track level work at the Eglinton location. Work will take place on a 24-hour basis. Berwick Avenue will remain open while this work takes place.
Graham Paine has tweeted graphic pictures of the stinking black sludge that has rolled onto Burlington Beach at the lakeside Beach Strip. It arrived just as many families are hoping to spend some pleasant time there as shown in the 2018 tweet from Steve Wilson.
MUCKY MESS: A smelly sewage like stench fills the air along the shoreline of Burlington Beach as a thick layer of dark, sludge-like material lines the waterfront. Beachgoers say it washed-up late last week and aren’t sure what it is other than nasty. pic.twitter.com/Rf7j5jIIce
— Graham Paine (@GPmedia_24) June 8, 2021
Another Wilson weekend adventure. #burlingtonbeach pic.twitter.com/k9yritrwMB
— Steve Wilson (@wilsonsteve77) August 12, 2018
55 Division police are asking for public help with information or video of a man who vandalized at least ten cars overnight from Saturday to Sunday on Fairview Blvd. near the corner of Danforth Ave and Broadview Ave. Police also ask residents to be aware and vigilant and to report suspicious activity in their neighbourhood. Further, residents are asked to check for damage before driving their vehicle. The suspect is described as wearing a light coloured long-sleeve shirt, dark pants, shoulder-length bushy hair, and had a shoulder bag. 55 Division (416) 808-5500
There seems to be keen support at City Hall for cargo e-bikes, known to some as electric bicycle trucks. They have found use among certain businesses during the C-19 pandemic for home-delivery of local food and goods says a Toronto release Tuesday. The City will update bylaws “to allow for the continued use of cargo e-bikes that support businesses in meeting unprecedented demand for local deliveries while also making way for a new micromobility pilot for larger cargo e-bikes.” News release
A parole board in the UK has recommended that Colin Pitchfork, the first man convicted using DNA evidence, can be released. The decision has caused outrage across Britain and recalls the imminent parole hearing for Toronto killer Paul Bernardo here in Canada. Killer Bernardo’s release would meet with national outrage
Ontario is set to re-open patios and attempt to bring business back to normal among widely divergent views of whether this is the right thing to do.
The US Justice Department said Monday it has clawed back $2.3 million in cryptocurrency ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline Co. The money was extorted by well-known criminal Internet operators from Russia known as DarkSide. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said investigators had seized 63.7 Bitcoins, now valued at about $2.3 million, paid by Colonial after last month’s hack of its systems that led to massive shortages at U.S. East Coast gas stations. Sadly, the ransom was valued at more like five million US when Colonial paid DarkSide a few weeks ago. No one is in custody of course because the DarkSide perpetrators are probably drinking wine in Moscow.
London, Ontario police say that five family members who were run down Sunday by a driver in a pickup truck were targeted because they were Muslim. Four of the five have died. At a sombre news conference Monday the London Police Chief, Mayor Edward Holder and Muslim leaders commented on this atrocity. The family, so far unnamed, was out for a walk in London’s north end at around 8:40 p.m. They were walking along Hyde Park Road near South Carriage Road when a southbound black pickup truck occupied by a single male mounted the sidewalk and struck them as they waited to cross the intersection, police said. A man 20 is in custody. Chief Stephen Williams said the LPS believes that it was an intentional act. They have identified the driver as Nathaniel Veltman.
Adam Kassam is the new president of the Ontario Medical Association. Dr. Kassam is a rehabilitation specialist and clinical associate at Runnymede Healthcare Center and Athlete’s Care in Toronto. He is also a faculty lecturer at the University of Toronto. At 33 he is the youngest person to assume the OMA leadership.
Bright lights of (um) Duncan Mill Road
The website Urban Toronto has posted a photo of the delightful nighttime lighting at 240 Duncan Mill Road. By day it’s an unassuming eight-storey office building but the owners have contrived to give an exciting LED window illumination after dark. We like this approach.
Getting ready to miss Pagnello’s (a lot)
Here’s a model airplane and two old footballs that were sold off for $75 at Pagnello’s Antiques at 1635 Bayview Ave. It’s old news around South Bayview that Pagnello’s will soon be just a memory. This lovely business has been with us for 55 years. They’re still there for a while but closed just now because of you-know-what. Drop in when they reopen. Time is ticking.
The statue of Egerton Ryerson, father of Ontario education, has been knocked down and school officials say that it won’t be put back. Youthful anger at many things, most recently the discovery of unmarked Indigenous graves in BC, would surely lead to it being knocked down again. On this matter, the Catholic Church is avoiding an apology for the deaths which apparently occurred at a residential school run by the church. No one seems to know when or how these children died. Disease was a major cause of death during the early years of the 20th Century. It’s estimated that 50,000 died in Canada (population about eight million) during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1919-1920.
Swedish scientists are making COVID-19 vaccines in powder form in an effort to overcome delivery and storage problems. They have developed an air-drying process that is far cheaper and easier than freeze-drying. It is hoped the process will help developing countries to produce their own vaccine stocks.
Meg and Harry name new daughter Lilibet (Lili) Diana
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have welcomed their second child – a baby daughter named Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. Her names honour her great-grandmother the Queen, who was nicknamed Lilibet by her family, and her late grandmother Princess Diana. Harry and Meghan announced that the infant, a first sibling for Archie, was born on Friday in California.
Return of the Supersonic era?
United Airlines has just announced that it will be the first US airline to operate supersonic passenger aircraft from Boom Supersonic. The airline will take 15 Boom Overture aircraft, with an option for 35 more, hopefully in service by 2029.
