The Ontario government has authorized the re-opening of golf, tennis, baseball, playgrounds and several other outdoor activities to open starting Saturday. It is part of a three-step reopening plan that extends through the summer. Patio dining and non-essential stores are likely to open sometime in June. CBC
The mood swings back and forth from harrowing to hilarious as Erika Campbell gives birth while she and her husband Troy speed to the hospital. As often happens, the baby wants out before they get there. But there’s an extra twist here as video blogger Troy has now posted a 14-minute record of their wonderful event. Heartiest congratulations guys.
Mayor Tory is at his most adept as he says he’s sure no one intentionally lives in a box in the park on purpose. But he also has to concede that the City has not been able to persuade park dwellers to leave their unsafe, fire-prone hovels.
TopShop closes out all business across Canada
TopShop arrived in Canada to much fanfare ten years ago but the tough, unpredictable retail game has now driven the British retailer back to Blighty. Topshop and Topman retail spaces within Hudson’s Bay department stores will close this fall.
Rule of Law takes nasty beating as pipeline pays $4.4 million ransom
The Rule of Law is a touchstone of modern democratic life but it’s taking a heck of a kicking from extortionists (possibly from Moscow) who regularly get paid millions for outrageous illegal conduct.
Upper left, Sun reporter Bryan Passifiume created this photoshop of Mayor Tory as Beethoven based on his honour’s 18th Century mop of hair. Bryan thinks it’s time for Mr Tory to forego his pandemic man-of-the-people locks. We wish the mayor as much fame as the great composer without the whacky outbursts. And yeah, a haircut too. Middle left we’re still with City Hall in a 1960s picture of the popular Mayor William Dennison and his wife Dorothy. They sold their home in Rosedale and moved into the new Leaside Towers. At bottom left is a wild-looking caboose captured in Leaside by outdoorsman and railway walker Rudy Limeback. He tells the story here. At the upper right is a stalwart fellow at the Yonge and Roxborough Starbucks reading aloud from a volume titled Celebration of Discipline. His guitar is at hand so he can play as well as read. Lastly at the lower right is a sombre memory of Toronto Maple Leaf players training to go to war in 1939.
There is lots of guff and guessing as fans try to figure all the angles on whether Montreal could possibly psych the Leafs in their first-round matchup Thursday night. Interest is high around town as a billboard on Bayview Ave courtesy of Habs fan Patrick Rocca reveals.
Police received a call for what is known as a wellness check at 5785 Yonge St near Finch Ave Tuesday. It seems neighbours were concerned about a woman of 60. But officers were only at the door of her eighth-floor apartment for a moment or two before she fell to her death from the balcony. They spoke briefly with her before she went to her bedroom to retrieve a document and sadly did not return.
Children fall from second storey windows at Brampton homes
The periodic return of billions of Cicadas will occur this summer. In the southern US, it’s just a few weeks away but as is the Cicada custom, high summer and early fall will make the air ring in Ontario.
As reported here Thursday, Shoppers Drug Mart will open a new store at 710 Mt. Pleasant Rd in the Briton House building. What is also now known is that the relatively new Shoppers location at 759 Mt. Pleasant will close. A sign there says the changeover happens on June 24. It only makes sense to close the recently opened store so close to the Briton House. And the value of locating in a retirement home with all of the benefits for residents and the drugstore seems clear. Permit names Shoppers for vacant space at Briton House
There has been a large and enthusiastic turnout for vaccinations at a clinic at the East York Town Centre on Sunday.
Part of the City’s new scheme for “downtown Leaside” is rising high at Brentcliffe Rd. and Eglinton Ave. The Dawsco plaza development at 939 Eglinton will see three towers 14, 20 and 31 floors high. The first proposal for this enormous project was somewhat downscaled in the face of community outrage. It’s all part of the LRT revolution. Lea Room meeting hears about downsized 939 Eglinton E.
A boy of 14 is recovering in hospital after being thrown 20 feet when his bicycle was hit by a car Friday evening. It occurred on Yonge St. at Kempford Blvd south of Finch Ave. A witness told City News that the boy and his family were crossing the street when a southbound car travelling at a high speed hit the lad.
Wheel separation threat reviewed
