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Advance plan your visit to the Leaside Blood Donor Clinic

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The Leaside Community Blood Donor Clinic takes place on Wednesday, April 5 from 2 to 7 p.m. at Northlea Public School, 305 Rumsey Rd. This is the time to make your visit efficient by calling to book an appointment. 1-888-2 DONATE: 1-888-236-6283  or visit www.blood.ca.

Your morning fright! Man dances on Don Mills at Wynford

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Disabled Ward 22 senior wants aid during elevator repairs

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A disabled 94-year-old woman who lives on the 12th floor of an apartment building on Eglinton Ave. west of Bayview Ave wants help with alternate accommodation from the management of the building while they fix the elevators. But Mary Taylor has been told by Colonia Treuhand Group (CTL Limited) that her request is a “cash grab”. Now she says she will go before an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal seeking help. CBC

Fisher school parents rally against tower plan next door

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Demonstration planned Thiursday
John Fisher School on Erskine Ave.

Public anger appears to be growing over the approval given to build a 35-storey tower next to John Fisher Public School on Erskine Ave. near Yonge Street. Parents are rallying Thursday at the school to protest the planned high-rise apartment. Taylor Roberts, a father of one of the students at the public school, told CP24 that the Toronto District School Board has made it “clear” that the land cannot accommodate “the activities that will happen with the condo.” “This is going to be a 35-storey building directly next to their kindergarten’s playground. When they come to clean the windows twice a year, do we have to close our school?… Things can fall off of a balcony right on to a child in the playground,” he said. Mayor Tory is scheduled to attend the protest.

LPOA meeting hears traffic calming ideas for South Leaside

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The second of two public meetings convened by the Leaside Property Owners Association to deal with traffic was held Wednesday in the William Lea Room at Leaside Arena. This meeting addressed traffic in south Leaside (south of Eglinton). The meeting heard from Gene Chartier, with the consulting firm of Paradigm Transportation Solutions, who reviewed traffic calming concepts similar to those discussed in previous meetings. These include signage, raised crosswalks, laddered (or painted stripes) crosswalks, traffic cushions (temporary road dividers) and speed bumps. The head of the South Leaside Traffic Committee., Erica Cooke, was unable to attend  Some of her concerns, and the committee’s, are contained in the stories linked here.  “Gateway to Leaside” seen as one way to calm traffic  Study asks changes in lights at Laird and McRae/Wicksteed  North Leaside Traffic discussed Wednesday evening

Backbenchers rout Cabinet on law to deny DNA data

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Liberal backbenchers combined with the Consevaive opposition to gave the Trudeau government a sound defeat in the Commons on a law to permit anyone to block the release of his DNA information. The political.term is “genetic discrimination” but it amounts to a ban on the discloure of DNA information to doctors who say they can advance medical science if they have such results. The law does not effect Criminal Code permisson for accused parties to provide a DNA sample. CBC

Student at Davisville PS among four new cases of mumps

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Four more cases of mumps were reported in Toronto on Wednesday including one a student at Davisville Public School on Millwood Road. The number of mumps cases in Toronto has been rising in recent days and now stands at 32 — four of them students are Midtown schools. These include Forest Hill Collegiate, King Edward Senior and Junior Public and Hodgson Senior Public.  Three cases reported Wednesday are adults aged to 18 and 35, the age group of most of the patients hit so far.

Bayview Leaside BIA tweets Wonderwomen message

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CGS Science Fair prepares children for U of T Fair in April

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Does your child like science? Check out the students over at CGS on Eglinton. Their Annual Science Fair was buzzing with scientific demonstration and explanation last week. The Fair is optional for SK students and mandatory for Grades 1-3. Children present a hypothesis and then show their findings. They are required to explain to the judges the purpose and results of their experiment. Three winners were declared as well as three honourable mentions. These chosen participants will be joining over 500 other children at the University of Toronto Science Fair on April 1. They are eager to represent their school and have another chance to talk about their projects. Good luck CGS!

For more information about CGS, contact Kelly Scott, Director of Admission at kscott@cgsschool.com or 416 423 5017 x 43. Space still available for the 2017/18 school year.

Poachers kill Rhino in Paris zoo for horn worth $100,000

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Poachers have broken through two fences to shoot a four-year old Rhino at a zoo near Paris and use a hacksaw to take his horn. Such booty is worth as much as $100,000 US on the black market because of deep superstition about its power as an aphrodisiac. The crime has shocked the wildlife world and today the head of Britain’s National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) said the French attack, the first of its kind in Europe, was a wake-up call, and urgent security checks needed to be made to protect the 111 rhinos in captivity in the UK. There was apparently no guard at the Paris zoo. The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) said it has a herd of greater one-horned rhinos and white rhinos at Whipsnade zoo in Bedfordshire and was increasing security patrols following the French attack.

Burlington Skyway closed in high winds after truck rollover

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OPP have re-opened the Burlington Skyway bridge on the QEW. The vital road link to Niagara and the US was closed most of Wednesday because of “extreme winds.” “Nothing was allowed  up, down or across the because of the wind. @OPP_HSD  Burlington Skyway cameras

Sophie stirs militant “no men” sentiment on Women’s Day

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Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau no doubt thought it was inclusive and becoming of a mature woman to write that on International Women’s Day ladies might like to celebrate “boys and men in our lives who encourage us to be who we truly are, who treat girls & women with respect, and who aren’t afraid to speak up in front of others.” The Facebook post won 100,000 likes nut there were numerous churlish remarks as well according to Hina Alam of the Hamilton Spectator  Trudeau marks Women’s Day with $650 million for reproductive rights