The 2016 harvest moon was muted in many places but the Weather Network has supplied a nice montage from viewers mostly in Canada’s Maritimes.

COBS Cares Weekend was busy Saturday at the COBS at 1539 Bayview with local owner Fiona Boylan, broadcasts to air from CHUM-FM’s Meredith Shaw and a face painting table contributed by Bamboo Bay owner and teacher Carrie Laureola. Those seen in the photo above are Karen Frost, of the Breakfast Club, with Akil Delfish, Meredith Shaw and Alexa Lewis of CHUM-FM. COBS partnered with the Breakfast Club of Canada for the third year over the Friday-Sunday weekend to give $1 from every COBS Bread sandwich loaf sold across Canada to the Club. Last year’s campaign raised $75,000 and this year’s goal is $100,000. Learn more about the COBS Cares Weekend with Breakfast the Club of Canada. The weekend continues Sunday.

The TTC is set to back off on the immediate introduction of the Presto card reader system in  order to save $16 million and thus meet budget restrictions set by City Council. Originally, the TTC planned to spend $30 million to have the Presto system fully in place by the middle of 2017, but delays are expected to push that back further into next year, the report said. With that delay the TTC would only need to spend $14 million for the Presto program next year, a reduction of $16 million. Just like running a household budget.

 

Canadian Press is saying Saturday that two tickets were sold for the $60 million Lotto Max jackpot. Tickets in Toronto and Kitchener should net their owners a tidy $30 million each. Five of the 22 MaxMillion prizes of a million dollars each were also won — two went to ticket holders in Ontario, one in Quebec, one in the Prairies and one in the Atlantic provinces.

 

Was it just a mistake or theft? Sadly when possessions are left in front of a home, even if they are not on the sidewalk, they tend to get taken away.  Now a set of golf clubs on the front lawn of 96 Sutherland Drive on Friday have been taken by a man — but they were not being thrown out. Neighbors saw the person taking the clubs and now the owner is asking for the person who took them to please bring them back. 416-421-2933

The head of Canada’s statistics agency resigned Friday in a torrent of indignation about the future of his employer. In fact, it remains to be seen if the gloomy view of Wayne Smith is accurate. Mr. Smith feels that decisions made by the Conservatives, and evidently left in place by the Liberals, will make Statscan a mere puppet of something called Shared Services Canada. Ugh. Sounds like the Ministry of Everything. Read it here.

ABOLISHED IN 1990

Lawyers are saying that Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Denny Thomas relied on a section of the Criminal Code that has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada in writing a critical verdict this week. Even more astonishing, they say that section 230 on which Judge Thomas relied in convicting Travis Vader, remains in the Criminal Code 25 years after the Court’s decision. There is much wringing of hands about why judges don’t know the law better but this would also seem to be a statement about how little MPs (and others) think of the Supremes.

NORDSTROM OPENS

Reporters are offering their guarded opinion that Nordstrom, newly opened in the Eaton Centre, will not make the same mistakes as Target when it came to Canada. Well, Nordstrom it may or may not get it right but on the surface the comparison seems silly. Nordstrom will open many fewer stores much more slowly to an entirely different clientele. This is a battle with Holt Renfrew and there may be enough money to go round.

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Reader Edmund Murphy writes that he was at Cleveland St. and Millwood Rd. Friday morning as fire and police services attended to an accident where a crossing guard was said to be hit. We’re making inquiries.

COLLISION: Millwood Road and Cleveland Street, @TPS53Div. Police investigating a pedestrian struck. #1646415 ^CdK

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) September 16, 2016

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has used a new expression to offer support for a campaign to fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. He opened an international donor conference in Montreal on Friday in hopes of raising $13 billion to replenish the Global Fund for the fight against the three major infectious diseases. In the clip above he is apparently speaking of the relative earning capacity of men versus women worldwide.

A Toronto police officer was struck by a car Lake Shore Boulevard West and Lower Spadina Avenue just after 10 a.m. Friday. The officer was part of a motorcycle escort when he was hit by a car entering Lake Shore off Spadina. He is expected to survive.

 

Sarah and Clair’s Food Drive will kickoff on Saturday, September 24 starting at noon with a barbecue at Andy Elder’s Grilltime meat store, 62 Laird Drive at Kenrae Road. This annual food drive inspired by two Leaside sisters will once again raise food for the Daily Bread Food Bank.  The drive is so named because of a child’s curiosity about just how children less fortunate than herself were fed. The barbecue will feature state-of-the-art cooking gear demonstrated by Broil King representative Naz and sausages donated by Black Knight Meats and Spices. They’ll be served on COBs buns. How about this. Amsterdam Brewery will be present to provide sampling. Say “hi” to Sarah and Claire, their parents Lynda Debono and Mark Jordan and grab a juicy plate of barbecue.  See you at the kickoff to Sarah and Clair’s Food Drive.

The College of Veterinarians of Ontario has suspended a St. Catharines veterinarian for professional misconduct after he was caught abusing animals. But a group of former employees of Dr. Mahavir Singh Rekhi — upset with penalties they felt were too lenient — have gone public with their complaints and released videos, which were also viewed by the college, showing him hitting and choking animals in his care. “He told me that if you handle them roughly enough, they will learn their lesson — and they did. They remembered him,” said Larissa Engels, a veterinary technician at Skyway Animal Hospital on Welland Avenue. Engels and other surreptitiously recorded the veterinarian in his clinic. Rekhi was suspended on Aug. 20. Rekhi must also pay the college $10,000, be retrained in the proper way to restrain animals, and will be subject to three unannounced inspections each year for two years. The suspension is for 10 months. St. Catharines Standard