Cap-and-trade legislation and summer demand are being offered as the reason for another leap in the price of fuel set to hit Tuesday night. There is another six cents a litre in the works, which will drive the retail price of regular to nearly $1.22 a litre. No one is trying to kid you. Cap and trade is a tax which, among other things, is about getting you to put your car away or maybe push it off a cliff. Happy motoring.

CONDO IN JEOPARDY OF BANKRUPTCY

The On The Go Mimico high-rise condominium project at 327 Royal York Road is in financial distress, according to the CBC, and some 200 people who bought units in the project may lose their homes after the development was placed into court-ordered receivership. The project is said to be 15 per cent complete six years after it was first marketed to buyers. It will now be sold off by the receiver in a bidding process. The buyers who paid for the pre-sold condos — 208 of the project’s 242 units — will get their combined $6.3 million in deposits back. But the condos they bought and waited years to move into will likely be sold off at much higher current market values by whomever steps in to complete the project, says reporter John Lancaster.

GOV’T LANDS HARD ON YORK BOARD

A review of the York District School Board (YRDSB) offers a sweeping list of recommendations for the board to remedy what is described as a “culture of fear” among board members and senior staff, as well as “systemic discrimination.” On Tuesday, Ontario Education Minister Mitzie Hunter issued 22 directives to the school board as a result of review. At least one of which is meant to be enacted within 24 hours. CBC

Heading east at Bayview

Passing Metro

All traffic stopped

Reader Bob Arsenault reports on the big move Monday night through the intersection of Bayview and Eglinton Aves. These are pictures taken about 10:30 p.m. as police cleared the way for a tunnel boring machine to leave town. All traffic was blocked and buses were detouring up to Broadway. No doubt homeowners up there noticed.

Cadillac Fairview has unveiled its design for a new pedestrian bridge across Queen Street, tying CF Toronto Eaton Centre to Hudson’s Bay and Saks Fifth Avenue flagship locations. Work is expected to begin immediately with a target opening of this fall. Prior to installation, the bridge will be built beside the shopping centre on James Street and then lifted into place upon completion. The architectural company WilkinsonEyre was selected as the designers of the bridge. “We designed the bridge’s form to connect together the two inherent geometries of each building, transforming from the historical, circular arches of the Hudson’s Bay and Saks Fifth Avenue building to the modern rectangular geometry of CF Toronto Eaton Centre,” director at WilkinsonEyre Dominic Bettison said in the news release.

Thrilling overtime win for Minor Atom Leaside Flames

The Minor Atom Leaside Flames Red team won their NYHL Tier 1 Championship Final in a thrilling 5-4 overtime victory over the Vaughan Rangers Sunday at Leaside Gardens Sunday night. The game featured a remarkable comeback by the Flames who trailed the Rangers 3-0 more than halfway through the game. As reader Graham Shirley reports, the home team launched a scoring rampage to take a 4-3 lead but Vaughan managed to tie things up with five minutes remaining in the third. The boisterous crowed erupted when Nicholas Nekic scored the game winner nearly 6 minutes into overtime and the kids enjoyed their celebration on the ice. Congratulations to all in a game of which both sides can be proud. Minor Atom kids are nine and under.

The screaming and shouting aboard that United flight from Chicago to Louisville has caught the attention of many indignant people. Why was the passenger treated the way he was? Unfortunate as it was, there’s a reason. United had to clear seats for staff who were being shifted to Louisville to crew a later flight. If they didn’t go, the flight would have to be cancelled. It is standard stuff. And so is the method used to find space on a plane when it is overbooked. The police (not airline staff) handled the passenger the way they treat anyone who refuses to do what is asked. They forcibly removed him. Some will say his behaviour bears on a temper tantrum.

Toronto and Southern Ontario escaped the most foreboding part of Monday’s special weather statement — the chance of April hail. None fell. But  the rumbling thunder was impressive (below). Rain continues through Monday night towards a sunny Tuesday as predicted by the Weather Network.

Thunder rocking south Bayview! https://t.co/pXu5A5akW4 #Davisville #Leaside #Bayview&Millwood #stormTO pic.twitter.com/1hihNV3sRx

— SBayview (@SBayview) April 10, 2017

LIVE NOW: Canada, U.S. & Mexico expected to announce joint bid for 2026 World Cup, on TSN1 & TSN3. pic.twitter.com/ukpxDsZ5AQ

— TSN (@TSN_Sports) April 10, 2017

Toronto Animal Services will hold a “resident information session” tonight beginning at 6 p.m. at East York Civic Centre 850 Coxwell Ave. Toronto Animal Services meeting in April to discuss coyotes  Woman’s cat attacked by coyote

Dig we must for a better Toronto. Some of the sewer pipes to be replaced are more than 100 years old. The details are on the City of Toronto release. Here are the main jobs announced this morning.

• demolition of the eastbound ramp from the Gardiner Expressway to York/Bay/Yonge Streets and building a new ramp at Lower Simcoe Street
• watermain work, TTC streetcar track replacement and road resurfacing on Wellington Street from Church Street to York Street
• TTC track replacement, watermain work and road resurfacing on Dundas Street from Yonge Street to Church Street
• road resurfacing on Birchmount Road from McNicoll Avenue to Steeles Avenue East
• road resurfacing and watermain work on Don Mills Road from north of Lawrence Avenue to Wynford Drive
• road resurfacing on Burnhamthorpe Road from Dundas Street West to Martin Grove Road
• road resurfacing on Lake Shore Boulevard from Leslie Street to Woodbine Avenue
• bridge rehabilitation work for Queensway Bridge over the Humber River, and
• TTC track work at the intersection of Queen Street and McCaul Street.

Power is has been restored to an estimated 7,600 customers of Toronto Hydro inside the general boundaries of Bayview Ave to Victoria Park Ave. and St.Clair Ave E to the 401. Hydro One, the supplier, had tweeted that it lost 75 megawatts of power which appeared to be the cause of the outage. Power remained on in Leaside but was off at Global News on Barber Greene Road

We're working in the dark here at @globalnewsto #darkto pic.twitter.com/2N21p0m0Ak

— Simon Ostler (@SimonOstler) April 10, 2017

Canadians wade ashore at Juno Beach

The prime minister and his family have visited Juno Beach where thousands of Canadians landed in France on D-Day — June 6, 1944. He said he hoped the international community would not repeat the “terrible mistakes” of the past. Unlike the US bloody experience at Omaha Beach on D-Day, Canada’s army was able for the most part to wade and walk ashore. It was still a costly day however with nearly 350 deaths recorded.