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Bookies make the Stampeders 10 point favorites but hey, it’s football. Canadian Press

Okay calm down. This is the playing out of Germanic folklore (always scary) in which thousands of people gather in Hollabrunn, Austria to witness the traditional Krampus run. Krampus is the evil companion of Santa Claus.

The 2014 renovated Hodgson rink behind the school at 282 Davisville has opened for the season. Thirty City rinks opened Saturday and another 20 will open next weekend. Hodgson is a rare compressor-assisted outdoor rink which creates good ice in nearly all weather. The old system was replaced in 2014 and is now open again for pleasure skating and puck-swatting.  City Rinks (Toronto — Hodgson unofficial)

Premier Wynne, the MPP for Leaside, leaves today for a business mission to Japan and South Korea. She says the purpose of the mission is to generate business agreements that will “increase trade, spur investment in Ontario and create jobs.”

BOY DROWNED

In other news, a boy aged eight has drowned in a public swimming pool at the Skypark Recreation Centre on Bamburgh Circle, near Warden Avenue Friday evening. More details as they are available.

NO WINNING LOTTO

And there was no winning ticket sold for Friday nights $21 million Lotto Max jackpot.

 

Black Friday was a genuine blackout as power failed in London last night. Still in London, the restaurant industry has brought forth a Crisps Cafe. In British-speak, a crisp what the rest of the world calls a potato chip. And in the U.S. Donald Trump is naming people to his cabinet but he seems hung up on a choice between Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and David Petraeus among others for Secretary of State.

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Road tolls to use the Toronto expressways might well lead to a series of other charges against drivers such as a congestion tax and a nightmarish concept called “cordon tolls”  These would apply as drivers try to avoid the expressway charges by using local roads. The linked CBC story quotes Matti Siemiatycki, an associate professor with the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto, as saying such movement could be stopped or diminished by cordon tolls charged when drivers cross a boundary. Yikes.

An appearance of the women associated with the volumes known as The Whole She-Bang seems like it might be fun. You can find out at Sleuth of Baker Street on Millwood Rd this Sunday, November 27 between 2 and 4 p.m.  The latest work contains 22 stories from Cathy Ace, Jayne Barnard, Anne Barton, Miriam Clavir, Susan Daly, Lisa de Nikolits, Alice Fitzpatrick, Valerie Hauch, Elizabeth Hosang, H. MacDonald-Archer, J. A. Menzies, Lynne Murphy, Helen Nelson, Ed Piwowarczyk, Andre Ramshaw, Darlene Ryan, Judy Penz Sheluk and Coleen Steele.

Don’t miss Patrick Rocca as Santa Claus on his seasonal billboard above the shops on the east of Bayview north of Millwood Rd.