A security camera at a house on Kentroyal Drive captures the moment a garbage truck loses control on a sloped stretch of Dixon Road Friday morning, striking trees, vehicles, and homes. The wreckage gives new meaning to the term Garbage Day.

Arrested moments later on Donlea Drive

An informative post to Leaside Comunity Facebook tells of a resident’s quick action in calling 911 when she heard her Nest doorbell cam notification that it had seen something funny outside. It was nearly 4 a.m. Her quick action resulted in the arrest of the person seen in the above picture a few minutes later on Donlea Drive.

Older Canadians will longingly recall Connaught Laboratories in Toronto as they hear the pitiful explanation that Canada could not get manufacturers to make a vaccine here because it doesn’t have a place to do that. Connaught, where they did the odd world-shattering thing like discover insulin, was sold off to the Europeans decades ago. Ugh.

Toronto Police have issued an alert to parents in the east end after an apparent attempted luring of a child Wednesday. It occurred about 5:30 p.m. near Neilson Rd and Ellesmere Rd when a 7-year-old girl reported that a man had approached her in front of her home. He tried to lure her away. She ran inside her home and the man fled. He is described as having a brown complexion, in his 20s, 5’6″-5’7″, with an average build, and was clean shaven. He had short wavy black hair. He was wearing a grey long-sleeve sweater and black pants. He was also carrying a circular black plastic food container and was not wearing a mask.

Temperatures will creep above 0º Celsius Friday but beginning Saturday Toronto will face a week of chilling days. Some will find it good news that the City will largely dodge 50 cm snowfall squalls in some areas. Weather Network

One vision of new Yonge St.

Toronto City Council has voted 21 to five in favour of a plan to transform Yonge St from College to Queen Sts. into something quite different. Singe lane traffic, or maybe one-way sections, wider sidewalks, benches, trees and of course lots of bicycles. It’s called the YongeTOmorrow plan. It gained momentum when the City found it needed to dig up most of the street to replace a 19th Century water and drainage system. “Thank you to the residents, (business) owners, thought leaders, cultural mavens who spoke in support of this big urban transformation,” tweeted Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam.

Maybe it will be one-way in parts

The nature of how men cross social lines in their attraction to women will again be investigated. It appears that former head of the Defense Forces Jonathan Vance was exchanging notes with a woman member of the forces. Then, Canada will donate $100,000 to repair the 19th Century church in St. Catharines that formed a meeting place for black people at the northern end of the Underground Railway. One member at the church was activist Harriet Tubman. Below that, Canada will seek to bolster its vaccine supply from COVAX, an international fund known to some as a medical foodbank. Lastly, there’s a raging trade in fake C-19 vaccine in China. The government is trying to get a handle on it.

LRT site at Eglinton and Yonge

TTC’s Line 1 subway will be closed between Finch and St. Clair stations at Eglinton Ave on Saturday and Sunday as crews perform TTC platform relocation works and associated track level works related to the construction of the Eglinton LRT. The LRT runs underneath the present Yonge subway. Current traffic configuration and pedestrian routes are expected to remain in place and Berwick Avenue will also remain open while this work takes place.

The Ministry of Health is recording only 745 new C-19 cases Tuesday because of the ongoing data migration of City of Toronto data to a different system. In recent days, Toronto Public Health (TPH) has been migrating all of its data to the provincial data system. The process is now said to be complete. “Most notably, TPH’s case count is negative following the identification of duplicate cases as well as data corrections to some fields, resulting in an underestimation of today’s cases,” a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Alexandra Hilkene, said on Tuesday. Presumably, a reliable number will be issued Wednesday but even the partial number suggests the province’s reduction of daily cases is continuing.

Novavax will produce vaccine in Canada but not soon

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a deal has been struck with Novavax to produce its COVID-19 vaccine in Canada, but the pharmaceutical company won’t be ready to roll out doses for several months. The federal government has signed a “memorandum of understanding” with Novavax to pursue options to produce its COVID-19 vaccine at a new Montreal facility that is under construction. The plant won’t be finished until July, meaning production is many months away.

Arija Jansons, 30, (right) remains in hospital after a fire broke out at 95 Gainsborough Rd. Her son, Kai, 6, (left) and her mother, Jana, and two close friends, Amanda Freimanis and Matthew Zdybal, were the four who died in the blaze. Two fundraisers have been started in aid of Ms Jansons and a third for all the victims. Jenny Yuen, Toronto Sun

The government has verbal assurances only that the European Union (where all the German cars come from) won’t use its new power to stop all vaccine shipments to Canada. Nonetheless, the fed remains optimistic that we will indeed get shipments as scheduled after early production issues are resolved. As the same time, efforts are being made to persuade big vaccine makers to set up shop in a planned government factory here. CTV

Bell closes newsroom, fires reporters at venerable CJAD

Bell Media has laid off all of the reporters at Montreal’s CJAD on Monday, two union sources told the Montreal Gazette. Bell Media would only confirm it has made “a limited number of staff reductions, many of them changes in on-air broadcast roles due to programming decisions” at CJAD. Radio and television reporters across the country at Bell Media are uneasy as the big multi-business firm faces a changing information world. Montreal Gazette

Council to vote Tuesday on narrowing Yonge St

Toronto City Council will decide on Tuesday whether to keep Yonge St. between College and Queen the way it is or rebuild it to make way for — guess what — condominiums. The vote itself revolves around a new watermain construction project between College/ Carleton St. and Queen St. and a far more important accompanying endeavor that will see the number of traffic lanes reduced from four to two in order to expand sidewalk space. They’ll be no need for cars of course because at Yonge and Queen you’re about as far downtown as you can get. Toronto Sun

Mandatory testing for travellers arriving at Toronto Pearson carries a $750 fine for refusing this new requirement. Then, Vancouver police raid a huge illegal nightclub roaring away atop a downtown penthouse, Telus Garden. Below that, Facebook says it’s ready to be regulated. Lastly, a sweet Welsh girl, Lilly Walker, 4, has found a perfect imprint of a dinosaur foot and her name will now go down in history as perhaps the world’s youngest palaeontologist.