As many as five people were shot Tuesday morning at a subway station in Brooklyn, the New York City Fire Department has said. Some thirteen people may be injured in some fashion. Fire personnel responding to reports of smoke at the 36th Street station in the Sunset Park neighbourhood found victims sprawled on the platform. Global News

SEDRA, the South Eglinton Davisville Residents Association, has emailed members about what is known Expanding Housing Option in Neighbourhoods. It is said to propose as many as five housing units per lot. It seems fair to call the notion radical. City Council, as presently formed, has many ideas to increase density (or add homes) to the City of Toronto. Like the Garden Suites concept, now a legal option available to any homeowner, it seems to challenge fundamentally the present makeup of single-family neighbourhoods (ie one lot, one house, one family). This historic concept is apparently considered not viable and perhaps old-fashioned. You may well have your own view. And SEDRA is asking homeowners to attend a Webex meeting scheduled for Wednesday at which this will be discussed.

Need to modify Garden Suite legislation

And the Leaside Residents Association is asking members to send mail to Councillor Robinson about the need to modify the Garden Suites legislation as it presently exists. Below is a video of “investors” talking last year about how Garden Suites as an investment will soon “sweep across Ontario”. One might say that if it doesn’t scare you, nothing will.

NATO will deploy a permanent full-scale military force on its border with Russia to defend its territory against a future Russian invasion, the alliance’s chief has told The Telegraph newspaper. The smallest, most vulnerable and likely targets of any future invasion by Russia would be the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says NATO is undergoing fundamental change that will reflect the consequences of Vladimir Putin’s actions. “What we see now is a new reality, a new normal for European security,” he said. “Therefore, we have now asked our military commanders to provide options for what we call a reset, a longer-term adaptation of NATO.”

Finland, Sweden expected to join NATO

In the upside-down world of Russian politics, the outright invasion of Ukraine is no reason for anyone else to be nervous. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that NATO is “a tool of confrontation”. This comes as US defence officials said Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine has been a “massive strategic blunder” which is likely to bring NATO enlargement. Nordic brothers Finland and Sweden have tried to stay neutral but the attack on Ukraine has shifted public opinion in both countries towards membership in NATO. US officials say that could come as early as June.

He’s called the most famous man in the world but electric car maker, amateur astronaut and general busybody Elon Musk has decided to forego, at least for now, a bid to join the board of Twitter. But his 9.2 percent purchase of the social media powerhouse means he won’t be ignored.

Can people be taught not get scammed?

It’s certainly a nice idea but it seems like a long shot. Criminality has never gone away and somehow it always finds victims. And it seems certain that general misinformation will always haunt social media.

Face-to-face sports card show an exciting event

The first major sports card trading show has opened its doors since the province relaxed COVID restrictions. How has two years of pent-up demand changed the scene? David Zura was there.

Police say this man approached and embraced girl in Bloor/Royal York station

Police say an older man, apparently well-groomed and dressed, spontaneously approached a girl of 14 in the Bloor subway station at Royal York Road on April 5. He embraced her and spoke to her as he moved her in his direction. She asked him to stop and another person in the station intervened. The man then left. The police release implies that the man was entirely unknown to the girl. He is described as white, medium build, clean-shaven, with short white hair, wearing a black baseball cap with a design/sticker on top of the brim, black pants, a black hoodie, a black puffer vest, black Puma shoes with white Puma stripe logo, carrying a blue duffle/messenger bag with black strap. Call 22 Division (416) 808-2200 with information.

Shopify, the Canadian web-design wonder firm, has announced that its stock will split 10 for one. Shopify has become legendary in a period of about seven years since it went public in 2015. It leaped to $1690 and made many investors millionaires. Since then it has fallen back. Here’s the MarketWatch post early Monday.

Shares of Shopify Inc. SHOP, -6.33% rallied 1.8% in premarket trading Monday, after the Canada-based e-commerce software company said it was planning for a 10-for-1 split of its common stock, in an effort to make its shares “more accessible to all investors.” That would be the first stock split since the company went public in May 2015. The stock closed Friday at $603.18, but has plunged 64.3% from its Nov. 19, 2021 record close of $1,690.60. Separately, the company also announced a proposal to preserve the voting power of its Founder and Chief Executive Tobi Lütke, by issuing a new class of share to Lütke. The new “Founder” shares will provide Lütke with a variable number of votes that when combined with shares already owned by him, his family and his affiliates, will represent 40% of the voting power. The proposal and the split are pending shareholder approval at the annual meeting on June 7. Shopify’s stock has tumbled 56.2% year to date through Friday, while the S&P 500 SPX, -0.27% has lost 5.8%.

PepisCo, the maker of Frito-Lay chips, is reported to have settled its price dispute with Loblaw. This report in the Financial Post says shipments of Dorito, Tostito, Miss Vickies and other chips will resume Monday and see stores fully stocked by Easter.

Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, has walked the streets of Kyiv and met ordinary Ukrainians along the way. This surprise visit is accompanied by a further $130 million in weapons aid.

The union, Unifor, says 900 employees at the Metro supermarket distribution warehouse in Etobicoke are back to work this weekend after approving a new contract. It means that fresh produce is now being restocked at Metro and Food Basics stores. Under the new agreement, workers will receive an average pay increase of 15.8 percent over the next four and a half years, starting with a $2.25 per hour increase in the first year paid retroactively to Oct. 24, 2021.

You have to love it. A season-opener with real fans in a rejuvenated stadium.

This week’s federal budget will see billions collected by the federal government in the form of your taxes going to creating more housing, dental care for children under 12, climate change, aid to Ukraine and to beef up the Canadian Armed Forces. And yes, it’s that political thing called the budget but it’s also your money. Specfics from CTV