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Valumart is now Tufts

Did you see cap and trade coming?

Each day brings change and as 2017 begins, the signs of change in South Bayview are apparent. Mike Tufts is now the franchisee at the Valumart at 1500 Bayview Ave. The sign was changed a couple of days ago and the affable Mr. Tufts is waiting to say hello. A visit to the gas pump may not be so pleasant. Cap and trade legislation introduced to combat that nasty carbon stuff (call it gasoline) is likely to raise the price of fuel by 4.3 cents a litre, according tp Dan McTeague of GasBuddy.com. Gas may run $1.169 a litre Sunday. And the calorie count menu is here, all the better to give cartoonists (above) ideas about how the government tried to distract you from the cost of the Pan Am Games. But either way, the Healthy Menu Choices Act of 2015 kicks in Sunday. How tax and other changes coming Jan. 1 will affect your wallet

The Yonge St. sinkhole has been repaired & the street has been fully re-opened. Great work by city crews to get this fixed quickly.

— John Tory (@JohnTory) December 31, 2016

The clock doesn’t lie. At 8 a.m. ET as you were getting up, it was New Year’s in the Australian metropolis.

Funny how the government keeps winning. Well, never mind, maybe it isn’t a lot of money depending how you play. But there were no Lotto Max jackpot tickets sold for Friday night’s $60 million prize. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Jan. 6 will remain at approximately $60 million but the number of Maxmillions prizes offered will increase to 40.

Shot in neck

5 Wakunda

O’Connor and Wakunda

A man about 30 has been shot and critically wounded at an apartment on Wakunda Place near O’Connor Drive. This occurred about 1.10 Saturday morning. Photojournalist Andrew Collins tweeted that the victim was hit in the neck. Three people are in custody and police are appealing for witnesses.

Male in his 30s has been rushed to @Sunnybrook aftr he was shot in the neck on Wakunda Place near O'Conner. @TPS54Div investigating #Toronto pic.twitter.com/oiLG4pzUnB

— Andrew Collins (@ACollinsPhoto) December 31, 2016

Shooting: A man in his 30's has been rushed to a trauma centre after he was shot. Wakunda Place near O'Conner and Victoria Park @TPS54Div pic.twitter.com/VFAImg7pDz

— CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) December 31, 2016

Leslie Wu of Forbes Magazine writes that a brewery in London will brew you a personalized lager based on the taste preferences revealed by your DNA. Call it tailor-made on tap. Wu says that a craft brewer named Meantime Bespoke is asking merely $30,000 to make the beer based on DNA from 23andME’s testing of oral taste receptors through a specific gene (TAS2R38, if you’re counting says she). Meantime Bespoke by the way is owned by SAB Miller. “Hereditary variations in a person’s oral taste receptors (the TAS2R38 gene) will be used to help determine their perception and proclivity to sweet and bitter profiles, primarily based on the ability to detect propylthiouracil — a chemical similar to the bitter compounds found in cabbage, raw broccoli, coffee tonic water and certain dark beers,” says the brewmaster. Uh-huh. .

Beer based on your DNA

Gov. Gen. David Johnston has issued the latest 100 appointments to the Order of Canada including three companions, 22 officers and 75 members. The investments will occur later in 2017 at ceremonies that will also mark Canada’s 150th birthday. Notable names are Michael Ondaatje, elevated to Companion, Senator Hugh Segal to Officer, Bonnie Brooks, head of the LCBO, Janet Ecker, former Ontario cabinet minister, Michael Ignatieff, David Onley, former lieutenant governor of Ontario and David Steinberg, expatriate comedian. Companions, Officers and Members of the Order of Canada list

The home explosion that disrupted a perfect summer day in Mississauga has been declared a double suicide — a form of pact between a husband and wife who recklessly blew themselves up in a neighborhood inhabited by dozens of neighbors. The blast occurred at a residence on Hickory Drive on June 28, killing 55-year-old Diane Page and her husband, 55-year-old Robert Nadler. Peel Region police chief Jennifer Evans said multiple experts had determined that Page and Nadler intentionally disconnected two natural gas pipes leading to a basement hot water tank in order to bring about the explosion. After the blast, notes complaining of poor health and lack of money were found. The manner of their suicides reveals desperate people who for all their trouble were both delusional and hugely self-involved in the manner of their deaths. See below.

Mississauga home explosion was double suicide: Peel Regional Police pic.twitter.com/HVO0jGGDMT

— Global News Toronto (@globalnewsto) December 30, 2016

Could “apology notes” be related to cause of Missy home explosion?

Geoff Kettel has sent on the Leaside Public Library schedule for the new year. There are many enjoyable and instructive programs. Click on images.

Toronto Hydro says about 50 customers in East York are also experiencing a power outage as of about 1:30 p.m. Friday. pic.twitter.com/SlPb4NymJP

— Briana Carnegie (@bacarnegie) December 30, 2016

New Year’s Eve will see a full court press by Toronto police of the R.I.D.E. program in 33 Division (eastern North York). But you may not wish to trust them as to location.  As everyone knows, the clever police find places to set up from which there no escape if you are an offender. Pottery Road at the bottom of the hill is a favorite spot.  Be warned and keep the designated driver clean.