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Drivers and commuters alike will be participating after a fashion in Sunday’s Sporting Life 10K — whether they like it or not. The many diversions for motorists are described in this Toronto Police release. Meanwhile, the 11 Bayview and 28 buses will operate out of the Eglinton subway station instead of Davisville. Other lines with changes are the 14 Glencairn, 94 Wellesley, 97 Yonge, 300 Bloor-Danforth, 307 Bathurst, 320 Yonge, 332 Eglinton West, 334 Eglinton East, 354 Lawrence East, 501 Queen, 504 King, 505 Dundas, 506 Carlton, 509 Harbourfront, 510 Spadina, 511 Bathurst and 512 St. Clair. The 88 Leaside will continue to operate out of the St Clair station as normal.

Sunrise Friday on Queen East ar Beach Ave./Phil Marion

Phil Marion has posted a thrilling shot of this morning’s sunrise as seen on Queen St outside the Garden Gate Good Food Open Kitchen. The owners have immortalized their place by highlighting in yellow the letters spelling GOOF in Good Food. Hilarious. Almost as uplifting as that sky.

Posed as an inspector

Stole patients valuables

Toronto Police say this woman showed up at a long-term care home in North York and passed herself off as a government inspector. In fact, she stole at least one wallet with credit cards in it. She is described as having a medium build, 5’5″, and blonde hair. She was wearing a black jacket, black shirt, black pants, black shoes

River displays his breed’s celebrated mottled body and brown head/Facebook

The classic coloration of his breed is seen in River, a Leaside German Shorthaired Pointer. This breed comes, as does River, mostly mottled all over but chocolate-coloured from the neck up. River appears in this local post and it’s plain he is an entertaining guy in many respects

Parents and teachers are discussing a new e-learning requirement for kids entering the high school system this fall. Many comments say the scheme is intended to allow the Toronto and District School Board to potentially avoid hiring teachers. The requirement stipulates two credits out of a required total of 30. This page posted by Gorden Lau seems useful.

Fire apparatus can reach 22 floors

Looking down

The Toronto Fire Service has held a photo opportunity to show off its new sky-high fire apparatus. It’s called the Bronto Skylift. The skylift is said to be the tallest firefighting equipment in North America. Mayor Tory and Fire Chief Pegg were on hand.

Loblaws has raised its quarterly dividend as it reported its first-quarter profit rose nearly 40 percent compared with a year ago. The grocery and drugstore retailer said Wednesday it will now pay a quarterly dividend of 40.5 cents per share, up from 36.5 cents per share.

Home sales down in real time

Toronto’s home market cooled sharply in just a month, the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board has revealed. Sales have dropped by about 41 percent since last year and 27 percent in one month. The board attributed much of the decline to homebuyers who are taking a break from the market as interest rates climb and reduce their buying power.

Leaside Volleyball Club U18 team/Twitter

Greg Verduin

Shop2Win

Breakfast in bed ice cream with pancakes

You’d have to say that the ladies of the Leaside Volleyball Club U18 team absolutely aced their team picture (left). Many more blazing aces to you, guys. At upper right, the late Greg Verduin has been gone a year but friends at Leaside High School hope to remember him with a scholarship in his name. Below that are a couple of better local commercial ideas. The Mount Pleasant Village BIA continues its inventive Shop2Win promotion and Baskin and Robbins introduces (would you believe) Breakfast in Bed Ice Cream. Har. Finally down below, Barbara Snell recalls the smart-looking kids in the 1955 kindergarten class at Northlea EMS. She wants some help with names.

KIndergarten class of 1955 at Northlea EMS

Residents report both a brief flicking and/or a short outage lasting as long as 60 seconds on the east side of Davisville Village Monday morning. FB

It was just like old times — only better. As a full house at Scotiabank Arena screamed support the Leafs blanked the Lightening 5-0 in Game One of their Atlantic Division playoff series.

Patrice Dutril

Vicky White

George Homer

Faces, faces and we begin with Patrice Dutril (left) a professor of politics at Ryerson who says the City’s plan to rename Dundas Street is based on a total hoax. Dutril says Henry Dundas was in fact a key collaborator and friend of the great abolitionist William Wilberforce and assisted in the plan to abolish slavery. Then we see Vicky White, a guard at an Alabama prison who seems to have absconded with one of the inmates. Oh Vicky. And finally, on the right is Bowler-adorned West Midlands tourist guide George Homer, It’s a hoot listening to George explain why he talks the way he does.

Woman passenger killed in long tumble down embankment/OPP

A woman passenger, 27, has died in the rollover and long fall down an embankment early Monday. She was thrown from the vehicle. It occurred at a ramp on Highway 427 at Highway 407. The driver, a man, is in hospital in unknown condition.