Police wisely called off a brief chase yesterday (Friday) when a man in a Range Rover caused mayhem on Yorkville, Cumberland, Bay and Bloor before fleeing from the vehicle. Among other damage, he knocked down a lamp standard. A presumption may be made that the vehicle was stolen. It has plates and would not be hard to trace. The incident had pedestrians running for cover as the lunatic driver drove down sidewalks among other illegal and reckless behaviour.

Police seek suspect after vehicle chase, collision in Yorkville https://t.co/j3hF3T8jEz pic.twitter.com/4bfarnNHqE

— CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) January 20, 2017

Conservative Party leadership candidate Kevin O’Leary is promising to eliminate the carbon tax within days of his arrival in office if he’s elected as prime minister. “Repeal the carbon tax as fast as I can – everywhere,” he said while speaking with London, Ontario radio reporter Andrew Lawton Friday.

Seen with the big cheque: L to R Bob Allan, Treasurer Pashby Fund, John Carter Vice Chair East York Foundation, Jeff Dover Vice Chair Leaside Gardens Board. Bill Pashby and Ray White, Chair of the Leaside Gardens Board

Thank you to Dr. Tom Pashby Sports Safety Fund for the generous donation @leasideskating @TorontoLeaside @leasidehockey @Leaside_Hall pic.twitter.com/VfHfTRQ48b

— Leaside Gardens (@LeasideGardens) January 21, 2017

A clerical error at a Toronto courthouse is being blamed for the escape from custody of a man police call violent and dangerous. He is 36-year-old Lingathasan Suntharamoorthy, now sought on a Canada-wide warrant. He left the Toronto East courthouse Friday morning and is now unlawfully at large. He should not approached if seen. Suntharamoorthy is described as five-foot-10, with a medium build, and short black hair. “He is known to be violent and dangerous,” police say in their release issued a dinner time. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-4200 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-TIPS (8477).

Clerical error

Lingathasan Suntharamoorthy, 36,

Geoffrey Williams Arnoldi has died suddenly at Creemore near the Devil’s Glen Ski Club which he loved.. Mr  Arnoldi was 60. He leaves his wife Susan Corbett. Also surviving are children Michael Arnoldi (Lindsey Mocherniak), Meghan Arnoldi, Kristopher Phippen (Alisa Jonas), and Jillian May (Jeffrey) and loving Poppa Geef of Ainslee Phippen and Ava May. A service was held  Friday at the Rosedale Golf Club to celebrate his life. The obituary may be read at the Humphrey Funeral Home site.

Canada’s 150th anniversary as nation will be marked by maple leaf red uniforms for the Toronto Blue Jays for every Sunday home game as well as select games in the month of July at the Rogers Centre.

Crowd at Capitol

Opponent present

Disconcerted?

Ready to speak

Whisltes and hoots

Donald Trump is the 45th president of the United States. His ascension to the famously imperial U.S. presidency has been celebrated both as a victory for American working people and denounced as a declaration of political war against the rest of the world. Trump’s speech Thursday was a fairly relentless reiteration of his view that previous governments have betrayed the country. He spoke firmly of his intent to make his priority the advancement of the United States working class. His tone was softer as he addressed the peaceful transition of power which is the glory of modern democracy. He called the outgoing president and his wife “outstanding” for their gracious assistance in the process. He later said he was “honoured” that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, attended the inaugural lunch. As he spoke there were riots in Washington. A limousine of unknown ownership was set on fire as seen in the SKY News video below. Among immediate changes noticed were mentions of his daughter’s jewellery line on the White House website.

Protesters set fire to a limo as part of anti-Trump demonstrations in Washington #PresidentTrump #inauguration https://t.co/9bajc0H2BU

— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 20, 2017

This account of a first visit to Loblaws in MLG was published in The South Bayview Bulldog in January, 2012. The doors to the new store opened in November, 2011. Many hundreds of thousands must have already visited the new Loblaws in Maple Leaf Gardens. It is, as Loblaws says, Food’s Greatest Stage. And many millions more will soon attend this imaginative and storied place of business. You can be thrilled by the sheer volume of sports sagas that unfolded here over six decades. And then bask in the way it has been redefined with great love. It is a supermarket of course but it is also a food court. You can have a choice of cuisines (Japanese at the lower left). Some wish their local Loblaws were as well stocked with spiced sausages and such rare produce as Savoy cabbages and Pecans in the shell. The underground parking is connected to the store by an escalator. Actually there are two escalators — one for you and one for your shopping cart. Technologically speaking, it’s more fun than an iPhone. Near the main door, all the musty glory of the Gardens comes crashing back under a maple leaf constructed of chairs salvaged from the blue seating section (lower right). On the wall beside it are the original remaining marks of those brutal stairs that generations of hockey fans happily climbed.

A public meeting to discuss a co-operative housing development proposed for the northeast corner of Upper Gerrard Street East and Coxwell Avenue has been re-scheduled to take place Tuesday, January 24 at the Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 79 Hiawatha Rd. Previous plans for this meeting came apart because, as reported by the Beach Mirror, the locations were not accessible.

A mystery medical complaint of some sort has sickened as many as 77 people — students and others —  at Humber College on the north campus Thursday. Of these, 29 were treated at hospital. Paramedics were called to Humber Residences on Humber College Boulevard at around 9:30 p.m. after a number of students reported feeling ill. According to paramedics, the students were vomiting and suffering from abdominal pain but were able to walk around. A Humber source said that there was a flu virus circulating at the campus but the appearance of so many cases within a short period seems more like food poisoning.

CP24 REPORT

“We don’t know what the source is. We have been in contact with the local hospitals and they have confirmed with us that they haven’t determined the source,” Dean of Students Jen McMillen told reporters on Friday. “Certainly in a high-density living environment like residence there are students that come in close contact with one another.” McMillen told reporters that all the students that were taken to hospital returned to the residence over the course of the night and are continuing to recover. She said that food services continue to be offered at Humber College, as there is “nothing to suggest” that food poisoning is to blame. CP24

Humber College hit by unknown illness as 77 students report vomiting, abdominal pain https://t.co/YZLeedxMJ4

— Global News Toronto (@globalnewsto) January 20, 2017

Micheal Charles Cole/CBC by Twitter

This messy but fortunately not too serious accident occurred Thursday evening at Bellamy Rd. and Lawrence Ave. East when it seems one of the cars went through a red light and T-boned the other. Six people, including two children, were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Doc Pashby and friend

Bill, Jane and Bob Pashby

Premier with Ray White

Elaine Snider and Charlene Kalia

At work

Chick Evans and Elaine Snider

Jon Burnside and Patrick Rocca

Families too

Premier Wynne told those present at the William Lea Room Thursday night that the community is blessed to have people with open hearts and generous spirits within it. She called the family of the late Dr Tom Pashby “a special, special example” of this quality. Guests were gathered to celebrate and thank the Pashby Foundation for a gift of $500,000 to the Leaside Memorial Community Arena. The money will be used for improve safety at the arena’s two rinks. The recently-built rink two will be named The Dr. Tom Pashby Play Safely Rink.  His children Jane, Bill and Bob were present for the evening