Young goat seen with mother at Riverdale Farm/TPS

Thieves have stolen a kid goat from Riverdale Farm on Winchester St. The theft occurred at the Cabbagetown public farm sometime Wednesday or Thursday. The three-month-old animal is named Juniper. It has an identical twin which was not stolen. The creature weighs 30 lbs. with black and silver fur, brown legs and white ears. Detective Constable Graham Ellis from 51 Division’s Major Crime Unit said the Riverdale Farm staff are understandably upset and concerned about Juniper who, they say, would not leave the pen without her mother and would have likely cried out during the incident. “We’d urge anyone who knows anything about this incident to contact us immediately so we can find her and safely return her to the farm,” he said.

Charlotte Morehouse and mother Rita

Toronto Police have published an enjoyable story about a mother and daughter who were both inspired to join the service.

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The Yonge subway (Line 1) subway will be closed between Lawrence and St. Clair stations on Saturday and Sunday this weekend. The TTC will perform TTC platform relocation and other track-level work. Work will take place 24-hours a day. Berwick Ave will remain open during this work. Release

Karen Falconer, Interim Director of Education, TDSB

Fire Chief Matthew Pegg

The City has sent an indignant letter to the Toronto District School Board over accusations in a lawsuit that Fire Chief Pegg was somehow negligent at the scene of the York Memorial Collegiate fire two years ago. The letter is sent to Karen Falconer, Interim Director of Education at the TDSB and is signed by City Manager Chris Murray copying Mayor Tory. It is scorching in its condemnation of the board for the lawsuit.

I am compelled to express my extreme disappointment in the baseless and irresponsible allegations made against Fire Chief Matthew Pegg. I am also appalled at the calculated public release of the claim yesterday by the TDSB, which contained these allegations. In my view this could have only been intended to cause unwarranted harm for some undisclosed strategic benefit.

Mayor Tory is seen in 2019 in a City News report shortly after the fire asking why “fire watch” personnel apparently employed by the TDSB did not call the TFS when smoke emerged during the night.

Most homeowners can only wonder what on earth a new world of Garden Suites might look like. But the concept, whatever it is, has emerged at City Hall. Is it a place for the kids, a home for gramps or an Airbnb dump? Does it block the view, require real plumbing, raise your taxes or just increase cars in the street?

• The ABC Residents Association in Summerhill is among many wondering.
• Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods

A man has surrendered to York Region Police in the hit-and-run on Wilstead Drive which occurred after a dispute in the No Frills parking lot on May 2. YRP has thanked the media and the public for assistance in sharing information which resulted in the suspect turning himself in. Release

• Exchange in Newmarket No Frills lot leads to hit-run attack

The Toronto Real Estate Board says home sales in GTA set a record for April and amounted to more than quadruple that from April 2020 – the first full month of the pandemic. Bucking the regular seasonal trend, April 2021 sales actually declined month-over-month. A similar trend was noted for the number of new listings reported. TREB says April 2021 saw a 12.7 percent decrease compared to March 2021, but more than quadruple the number of sales reported in April 2020. Release

The City has issued a notice detailing schedules and practices it will observe during the repaving of Mt. Pleasant Rd. north of Eglinton Ave.

The City is launching a pilot to see if it’s possible to collect dog waste in street litter bins. The pilot begins immediately and will run for three months. Ten bins (noted below) have been converted to accept the waste. The dog waste compartments are labelled with stickers and should only be used to dispose of dog waste. The locations are: 1989 Queen St. E., 125 Homewood Ave., 10 Niagara St. (three bins), 45 Dunfield Ave., 55 Rosehill Ave., 88 Broadway Ave., 150 Kilgour Rd and Lakeshore Blvd and Northern Dancer Blvd. Release

I encourage residents who see these new bins to use them when they're out with their dogs.

This initiative is a great example of how our City is making it easier for our residents to help keep our streets clean and keep materials out of landfill that don't need to be there. pic.twitter.com/nck3K2xUmW

— John Tory (@JohnTory) May 4, 2021

Karen Kain, the girl from Hamilton who went on to an illustrious career as Canada’s prima ballerina, has been honoured by Canada Post on her 50th anniversary with the National Ballet. The stamp features a photograph of Kain in Swan Lake. Canada Post also issued a stamp honouring Canadian ballet legend, Fernand Nault, former Co-Artistic Director of Les Grands Ballet Canadiens de Montréal.

Obscenities engraved on wheels of Drake’s Rolls

Drake has acquired a one-off Rolls-Royce Cullinan customized by an outfit called Chrome Hearts which among other cute things, has an obscenity engraved on the wheels. Well, he never claimed to be a man of the people. Driving

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