Dart sticks to car

Launched from front of cruiser

Tag, Track, Apprehend

The City of Delta B.C. is apparently the first community in Canada to employ so-called GPS darts to safely apprehend fleeing drivers. The trial program has seen eight Delta police cars equipped at $1,200 a vehicle by the Delta Police Foundation. The system is made and sold by a Virginia Beach, Virginia firm, StarChase Pursuit Management Technology and is said to provide a safe alternative to the dangerous practice of car chases. Officers launch a GPS dart from the front of their cruiser, it sticks to the rear of the escaping vehicle, police dispatch then monitors the fleeing vehicle and reports its location to nearby units when it is parked. The material online does not appear to state a range for the dart but logically line-of-sight would be required.

A man is dead in a forklift accident in Vaughan Friday afternoon. It appears to be a case of the vehicle tipping over and pinning the operator. The scene is on Highway 7, west of Highway 27.

A woman has made a dramatic complaint about the cost of her hydro bill and imminent carbon tax levies at a town hall type meeting held by the prime minister today on Peterborough. Commentators are calling it a stark reminder of the resentment felt by the public of green legislation hardship imposed by both federal and provincial governments.

Thumbs up from hospital

“My face was a mess”

Cassidy today

Leaside Junior Wildcats re-tweeted story

Cassidy Gordon, 16, plays defense for the Guelph Gryphons girl’s hockey squad and she is a living example of hockey safety. Newly moved from PEI, Cassidy recalls how she escaped serious injury or worse in a recent Gryphons game when a skate slammed into her neck guard. Lying in intensive care she heard the doctor telling her mom that he would have had bad news for her if Cassidy had not been wearing the guard. It was the insistence of coaches for the Red Devils team in Pownal, PEI, that taught Cassidy not to cheat. It was, as she recalled for Nancy Russell of the CBC “a really big deal to make sure we had our necks protected.” The article caught the attention of similarly safety conscious Coach Kim McCullough of the Leaside Junior Wildcats who tweeted a warning to local players  McCullough is the proprietor of Total Female Hockey, a school to teach women to play their best game.

Clothes, phone left behind

Carl Hansske at locked Alphie’s

What’s it all about?

A 16-year-old boy was shot inside Alfie’s Bar and Grill on Queen East near Sherbourne St. Friday morning. Hmm. Sixteen you say. Have your ID ready. All very tragic for sure. The boy has serious wounds to the neck but is in stable condition. As reported by Carl Hanstke of 680 News police are on the lookout for security camera video on Queen of which, one guesses, there might be lots.

Video: Boy, 16, shot in the neck inside Moss Park restaurant pic.twitter.com/zIgsR5Jzye

— CityNews Toronto (@CityNewsTO) January 13, 2017

Modern subways and transit lines, mostly in Asia but also seen in new airport terminals, isolate the tracks from the public saving lives and preventing delays caused by everything from suicide attempts to rescue missions for fallen cell phones. They are seen in cities like Seoul, the capital of South Korea (see video) but are not part of the current program of LRT construction in Toronto. Safety subways and transit systems moving travellers between airport terminals employ two sets of doors. One set on the train and another in the terminal. A computer program coordinate the train so that both sets of door meet when the it stops. People on the subway tracks delayed TTC train service for a total of 26 hours last year. As upsetting as it is, the issue of people on the tracks is common in old-fashioned subway systems like those in Toronto, New York and London.

A long video of proceedings at the City of Toronto budget East York subcommittee consultation is available on YouTube. Many deputations are heard in this four hour and 27-minute video. For those who are interested. It was recorded January 9.

https://twitter.com/stanselm_cs/status/819725597052203008

As many as 5,000 Toronto Hydro customers lost power when an ambulance hit a pole near Weston Road and Bradstock Road in the west end overnight. The driver of the ambulance was taken to hospital and treated for minor injuries. Power has since been restored. Paramedics says the driver was not responding to a a call at the time of the crash but there is no reason given for the crash.

Crane lifts broken trailer

Lucky to get off road

Heavy rolls of paper

Snow collapsed walls

Then floor gave way

The remarkable situation occurred on Highway 400 southbound at Bradford yesterday as a tractor-trailer loaded with heavy rolls of paper just collapsed. The driver was able to get the vehicle to the roadside. The trailer walls were weakened by snow and ice on the roof and that weakened the floor. Next thing you know, the trailer snapped and was dragging on the pavement. No one was hurt.

A nasty exchange between Cynthia Giles of the Environmental Protection Agency and Fiat Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne has gripped the attention of North American car owners. Ms. Giles, assistant administrator of the EPA, today accused Fiat Chrysler equipping more than 100,000 diesel Jeep vehicles with software which she said represented a “clear and serious violation of the Clean Air Act.”  The accusation applies to 2014, 2015 and 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee and to light-duty Ram 1500 trucks with 3-liter diesel engines. Marchionne seemed livid in categorical denials and saying he was offended by the agency’s “incredibly belligerent” attacks on the auto industry. He said his company had done “nothing” illegally and those who said differently were “smoking illegal material.”  But the EPA pointed to what it called “eight different undisclosed software programs” installed on the vehicles, collectively causing them to spew harmful nitrous oxide emissions which can exacerbate respiratory conditions. The allegations will raise fears among Jeep and Ram diesel owners that they are about to face the nightmare of devalued vehicles and long battles for compensation. But analyst Michelle Krebs says she does not think this is the same as the VW scandal.

Would Ray Kroc approve? See trailer below

It is the most asked for change by McDonald’s customers and it has been for years. The all-day breakfast, introduced last year in the  U.S. has boosted sales there. Now, finally, McDonald’s will test the market for eggs after 11 a.m in Canada. And it is the egg, make no mistake, which many consider the universal food, that propels unknown numbers of restaurants to profitability. None of the pilot stores will be in Toronto but eight of them will be in Whitby-Ajax. Three will be three in Mississauga and the rest in places like Montreal and suburban Vancouver. McDonald’s has about 1,400 restaurants across the country.

RAY KROC MOVIE

Which makes one wonder if it was Ray Kroc that decided there would be no eggs after 11 a.m. The story of the McDonald’s founder will be in theatres January 20 but the all-day breakfast is not mentioned so far as we know.