Peter Sloly
Former deputy police chief Peter Sloly has been hired by the audit, consulting and advisory firm Deloitte to advise it firm on projects relating to the company’s risk and forensic practices. Deloitte noted Mr. Sloly’s experience in cyber risk, security and social media in making the announcement Thursday. In a written statement, Ryan Brain, the regional managing partner for Deloitte in Toronto, said the former Toronto deputy cop is a “proven leader” and an “out-of-the-box thinker.”
An app called Kik that is kid-friendly but also predator-friendly is reviewed here by the CBC The company that owns it is in Waterloo.
Toronto Zoo knows how to get the public to take an interest. It’s running a multiple-choice contest to name the new baby rhino — and there are no wrong answers. The choice offered for the two-month old little fellow (well, not that little) are Nandu, Kaziranga and Vihaan. As explained by the zoo, Nandu means cheerful and happy, Vihaan can mean dawn of the morning or the beginning of a new era while Kaziranga is the name of a national park in northeast India that is home to more than half of the world’s one-horned rhinoceroses.
Chad and Alyssa McDowell, the amiable operators of the Valu-Mart at 1500 Bayview Ave. are on their way to Edmonton. Chad has taken an opportunity to run a larger store in the Alberta capital and the two have been packing bags for a few days now. A new franchisee will be appointed but in the meantime manager Mike Tufts is in charge. Good luck Chad and Alyssa.
Reader Gary Slippoy has a sent along this picture of the demolition at Eglinton and Bayview as of Wednesday, April 27, 2016.
Robert Prichard, the chairman of Metrolinx, has told CP24 that he is concerned about the delivery schedule of a “test car” for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Prichard says Metrolinx should have had possession of the car from Bombardier by now so that it was available to test on the under-construction rail line being dug along Toronto’s longest street. The Metrolinx chairman told Stephen LeDrew that the LRT cars are based on the same frame as the undelivered Toronto streetcars ordered by the TTC. The $770 million LRT order must arrive and be tested by the 2020 opening.
ONTARIO, OTTAWA MUST GET ANSWERS
It is a deeply disturbing revelation. The City is suffering a convulsion caused by LRT construction while the supplier of the vehicle required to run it seems to be lost in space. No explanation worthy of the name has been given for the delay. Does anyone really know what has gone wrong? Is there personal dereliction at work here? Are the employees incompetent? It does not seem too much to ask that both the Ontario and Federal Governments obtain some explanation and provide it to the public.
It may not catch on along Bessborough Drive or at Granite Place but at least two Toronto women are in the business of serving meals to total strangers in their home. They advertise a menu, take a reservation, greet and serve the unknown guests, take payment in kind (beer, wine or whatever) and hopefully say goodnight without incident. What the police (on safety) or City Hall (on legality) might say about this is unknown. The CBC’s Sophia Hama tells of how Nadya Khoja and Sarah Lee do this out of their Toronto condo in what is known as the “sharing economy.”
Consumerist website says that YouTube is about to introduce six-second ads in an attempt to hold short-attention span cell phone viewers and to beat out Facebook, which has surpassed YouTube for video viewing online. Who knew? A lot of those well-watched videos on Facebook started out on YouTube. At a mere six seconds, even the most impatient viewer is inclined to wait through these coyly-named “bumper ads”. YouTube will still keep the longer ads as well. Examples that YouTube showed in its announcement of the 6-second spots were short sections of existing full-length ads.
The new Star Trek television show that’s being produced for the CBS streaming service All Access will be filmed in Toronto according to Trek News. CBS is said to have studio space booked for the summer. All five previous live-action Star Trek series have shot in Los Angeles. Canadian government tax incentives are traditionally a reason for filming in Canada, as opposed to Los Angeles. The new series will launch in early 2017 with a broadcast TV special on CBS. The first episode and all subsequent episodes will be exclusively shown in the U.S. on All Access.
The new compost (wet food) garbage bins are seen in this video for the first time, so far as we know. The bins require a human-handed 90-degree twist to lock and unlock them. You can do it and so can the sanitation workers. But the raccoons can’t. They don’t have thumbs. Good thing. Let’s hope it actually works.
Leaside native Adam Skelly has opened a lunch restaurant and smoke meat retail business in a refurbished industrial shop at 176 Wicksteed Ave. It’s called Adamson Barbecue. Adamson is a combination of his own name and that of his business partner and friend Alison Hunt. Skelly, a 28-year-old alumnus of Leaside High School, has been cooking and selling meats and sandwiches since 2013 out of his Stock Stack BBQ Food Truck. Now he’s fixed up a space owned by his dad which used to house a welding business to serve food Monday to Friday. He’s open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. OSO (or sold out) as the sign on his front door says. Adam says he has always had a fascination with the barbecue meat business and proudly shows a Texas flag on the wall of Adamson’s, a symbol of Texas Barbecue, his specialty. The flag was flown over the Texas state house and is signed for authenticity. Following the smoked meat aroma at 176 Wicksteed will lead one to Adam’s prize, a 1967 commercial smoker. The big machine is seldom idle and it was flavouring up a load of brisket and pork when the Bulldog visited. The big smoker is fed by logs of choice oak and sugar maple wood. Take a look at Adamson offerings at the website. The place is on the north side of Wicksteed just west of the railway crossing and across the street from My Self Storage. (647) 559-2080.
The prime minister has spoken again about the beheading death of Canadian citizen John Ridsdel in the Philippines at the hands of Islamist terrorists who pledge allegiance to ISIS, Al-Qaeda and similar barbaric bodies. Mr. Trudeau made the point that the government does not pay ransom because it supports the continued operations of such terrorists and endangers the lives of Canadians abroad.
WHAT TO DO
The PM didn’t have much to say on this but the circumstances of such killings and the broader state of the world as well casts a sharp light on a new government eager to return Canada to the long-gone days of peacekeeping. The notion of peacekeeping seems hopelessly naive in a world filled with homicidal extremists bent on establishing a blood-soaked global regime. No one knows what to do about ISIS and the others except to kill them. It is a heavy burden for any leader but lighter perhaps than seeing innocent Canadians slaughtered this way.
