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M, F or X? Just whisper it and we truly promise not to tell

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A story today by the CBC reveals that new health cards issued in Ontario — apparently unlike new driver’s licenses — do not show any gender information on them. What this means is that people using the card as identification when applying for a passport will find their application is rejected. Citizenship Canada says it wasn’t consulted about the gender neutral changes introduced by Ontario and it doesn’t seem to be offering any solutions. In fact, there appears to be fairly sketchy information in the media about what driver’s licenses will show. It is said that a person will have a choice of choosing M, F or X — but the iron-clad assurance that this information will be visible? Fingers crossed.CBC

First Capital buys Pusateri site at Avenue and Lawrence

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First Capital Realty, owners of the Leaside Village shopping centre at Laird Drive and Esandar Drive, has entered into an agreement to buy the site of Pusateri’s flagship store and head office on Avenue Road north of Lawrence Ave. West. That store is now closed because of a fire about a year ago but the owners have promised that it will re-open this year better than ever. It appears that First Capital — a REIT specializing in retail activity — has a deal to buy the Pusateri site and a number of other properties on the same corner for approximately $63.2 million. In addition to the Pusateri’s property, the deal involves the neighbouring car wash to the south, and a nearby commercial retail building, small office building and 15-unit apartment. The news came as First Capital announced its Q2 results. Thus it seems to those who know the industry that a retail plaza style project will now proceed at this location with Pusateri’s serving as the anchor.

NORDSTROM RACK AT BLOOR AND YONGE

First Capital also announced the purchase 85,000 square feet of new retail space and 52 commercial parking stalls at the southeast corner of Yonge Street and Bloor Street in Toronto for $189.2 million in cash. It says that Nordstrom will locate a 39,000 square foot location of The Rack, its off price store, in this space.

 

 

Taste of The Danforth begins Friday August 5 at 11

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Taste of The Danforth on Danforth Ave. from Broadview Avenue to Jones Avenue started Friday and will close roads into the thoroughfare and require re-routing for traffic which normally used the main street. The closures will last from Friday, August 5 at 11 a.m. to Monday, August 8 at 3 a.m. The following through streets remain open for residents looking to travel by car: Mortimer Avenue to the north, Gerrard Street East to the south, Jones Avenue to the east, and Broadview Avenue to the west.

HOSPITAL BED RACE

And the 10th annual Michael Garron (East General) Hospital Danforth Dash Bed Race, presented by the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113, will turn the Danforth into a make shift Emergency Bed Track as teams kick off the Krinos Taste of the Danforth festival. Some 21 teams will be competing for the coveted 2016 Gold Bed Pan Trophy in a bed race that will feature teams from corporate Toronto, our emergency services and Toronto’s mascots. Personalities at the race will be NHL players Brad Boyes and Cody Hodgson, Olympic medalist Deidra Dionne, Olympic athlete Martin Reader, Councillors Michael Ford, Mary Fragedakis and Jon Burnside and Toronto’s mascots.

New shipment of Ontario peaches Friday at Badali’s

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The early Ontario peaches for 2016 have sold out in a few days at Badali’s on Bayview Ave. but a new shipment is expected Friday. This year’s peaches are small, a result of the lack of rain. Growers say the hot weather however makes the stone fruit delicious. We’re hoping.  Ontariotenderfruit.ca 

Baseball to return to Olympics for Tokyo games in 2020

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Four new sports and an old favorite, baseball, will be played at the 2020 Tokyo Games the IOC decided Thursday. The extreme sport karate in being introduced to the world’s biggest athletic event along with skateboarding, surfing and climbing. Baseball and softball will return after being eliminated in 2012 ahead of the London games. The new sports are an effort to attract young spectators and baseball, which has a worldwide following in the billions, will no doubt see classic matchups again between the U.S., Japan and other lands.

DUBAI: Jump! Jump! Jump! Leave your bags behind

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Video taken by passengers shows the chaos aboard an Emirates 777 as the urgent evacuation took place. At one point a crew member urges people to leave bags behind.

The Keefe clan of Mt Pleasant’s Granite Brewery

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240 Rose Park Drive at Welland is getting a stone face

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The new home under construction at Rose Park Drive and Welland Ave. is being given a stone facing this week. The cutting of stone is shattering the quiet of the Moore Park corner but at least work is proceeding.

Updates on Hydro One project August 9, 10 and 17

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Hydro One Community Relations
t: 416-345-6799
e: Community.Relations@HydroOne.com

August 9, 2016
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Stan Wadlow Community Centre
373 Cedarvale Avenue

August 10, 2016
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Leaside Arena, William Lea Room
1073 Millwood Road

August 17, 2016
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Stan Wadlow Community Centre
373 Cedarvale Avenue

“Pay me or I vote for Trump” giggle from CNN jokester

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Muralist Phlegm’s Yonge and St. Clair Muse completed

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https://twitter.com/toddsmithland/status/760961118831542272

53 Division CRU volunteers paint away graffiti tagging

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53 Division Community Response Unit made up of officers and volunteers were busy over the weekend cleaning up the neighborhood in Leaside.