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It may be hard to make hockey practice fun on Halloween but the Leaside Junior Wildcats took a pretty good stab at it. Those “uniforms” might be good for scaring the opposition in the next tough match. Away-game monster suits. The Wildcats play in the Provincial Women’s Hockey League, a 20-team organization that sets high standards for players.
Sue Byford, co-publisher of the The South Bayview Bulldog, enjoyed the fine Halloween evening and filed these happily frightful photos.
Meghan Markle stars in Suits, a series filmed in Toronto
Prince Harry has cancelled a flight to Toronto to see Meghan Markle, the LA-born actress now living here while she stars in the USA Network series Suits. Harry has been dating Markle since he met her in TO during the Invictus Games earlier this year. News of this apparent romance got into the UK media over the weekend and now Harry is said to be worried that the media sensation will frighten off Markle. He has been quoted as saying: “Even if I talk to a girl, that person is then suddenly my wife, and people go knocking on her door.” According to the Sunday Express the “red-haired royal Romeo,” 32, was “besotted” with Markle, 35, who plays Rachel Zane on the TV legal drama. An unnamed source says: “He’s in a very relaxed period of his life and Meghan has come along at the right time. They are taking each week as it comes and just enjoying each other’s company but it’s fair to say that they love seeing each other and there’s a definite chemistry between them,” the source was quoted as saying. The actress has stayed with Harry at Kensington Palace and met the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Express reported. Further, “William and Kate really liked her and she fitted in straight away.” Time will tell.
Pope Francis has visited Sweden as 12 months of events leading up to the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Church begin. Considered the greatest rift in western Christianity, Lutheranism prompted the Reformation – a Europe-wide religious, political, social and cultural revolution. The pontiff was in Lund for a two-day visit. In the city’s cathedral, he told worshippers that both Catholics and Lutherans had a “new opportunity to accept a common path.” He and Reverend Martin Junge, the General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation signed a joint declaration stating that the two traditions have more uniting them than dividing them. Lutheranism began in Wittenberg, Germany, in the 16th century. In his address, Francis acknowledged that Luther was an “intelligent man”, who was rightly upset by the corruption, greed, worldliness and lust for power that existed in the Catholic Church at the time of the Reformation
Police are sorting out a collision involving three vehicles in which three teens on foot were hit and injured. Two boys and a girl between 13 and 14 years old were struck at the Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue East location about 8:30 Halloween night. Two have gone to hospital with serious injuries. A Reddit user posted this:
HARROWING ACCOUNT
“Not posting any pictures out of respect for the people injured. Heard a huge smash, went out on my balcony to see a car on my building’s lawn and bodies on the ground. Lots of people rushed to help right away. The people hit seem to be moving, from what I can see. Lots of police, fire and ambulance on scene now. Was pretty awful to see this not long after the post about reckless drivers endangering pedestrians. There’s a Halloween bag and candy scattered across the lawn of the building. Sucked to hear the kids screaming as the were loaded onto backboards/stretchers. But if you’re screaming then you’re alive, at least. If it went down the way it looks like it went down, one of the people hit ended up 50 or 60 feet from where they were hit.”
A car just went off the road and hit a bunch of people in front of my building (Don Mills and Lawrence). via /r/toronto
Not posting any pi…
— James A. Hess (@JamesAHess) November 1, 2016
Collision #1937891
-Lawrence Ave E/Don Mills Rd
-veh struck three kids ^js
Anyone with info call 416-808-3300— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) November 1, 2016
Happy Halloween. Tonight, our kids will be out trick or treating, crossing streets in the dark. Please drive safely & slowly. #KidsAtPlay
— Josh Matlow (@JoshMatlow) October 31, 2016
And there’s Tonka, the Halloween pony from Legal, Alberta.
The best advice would be — Noooo!
In Ottawa, the prime minister has appointed six senators for Ontario. These are the new improved non-partisan kind. They are estimable men and women so let’s wait and see. They are Gwen Boniface, the first woman to preside as Commissioner of the OPP, Kim Pate, executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies and an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, Ontario cabinet secretary Tony Dean, former Scotiabank vice chairman Sarabjit Marwah, Howard Wetston, a former federal court judge and head of the Ontario Securities Commission and Lucie Moncion, president and CEO of a network of credit unions that serve Ontario francophone communities
GASP, WE DON’T LIKE ROAD DELAYS
It’s big news to Forum Research apparently that Torontonians do not support the long-term closure of sidewalks and traffic lanes in the city due to lengthy construction projects. The poll showed 76 percent opposed. As Clark Kent’s editor Perry White might have said: “It would news if they weren’t.”
SMARTTRACK AND TAXES
SmartTrack and associated transit improvements are estimated to cost seven billion dollars and Toronto will ante up $3.7 billion of that, City Manager Peter Wallace reports Monday in details of the sharing agreement with the City. It may mean tax increases and that is the best reason yet that Toronto should have nothing to do with spending billions more on Expo 2015. CBC
An embarrassing little sign in the corner of the dirty window at 732 Mt. Pleasant Rd. makes it official in a dog-eared way. Dollarama is about to open in the former Rexall Pharma Plus just north of Briton House. The sign asks applicants to call or send mail to jobs-31@dollarama.com. Hey, it’s a job.
A theatre group which intends to open a venue in the Newbigging Funeral Home building at 733 Mt. Pleasant Rd. is organizing tours of the building Monday (October 31, 2016). These tours will be conducted by director Mitchell Cushman between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Mr. Cushman is founder of Outside the March, the theatre group which has obtained the building and has renamed it the Aorta Theatre. The tour will offer scenes of the cast rehearsing the first production, Tomorrow Love. It opens November 19. Mr. Cushman is a regular Stratford director, and co-creator of the smash hit musical Brentwood (2015 Audience Choice Dora Award) www.outsidethemarch.ca.
New York Times Game Six in Cleveland Tuesday.
are these not the most AWESOME teeter-totters you ever saw?
brand new installation at Leonard Linton Park #Leaside pic.twitter.com/yvwLFEU0Yy— Rudy Limeback (@rudydotca) October 31, 2016
As tweeted by Rudy Limeback, new teeter-totters in Leonard Linton Park on Vanderhoof Ave. at Brian Peck Crescent are something to see. They have seats molded to provide back support and both handlebars and foot support for stability. Nice.
