Canada’s armed forces often seem to be greatly distanced from national defense.
Russian chess champ sues Netflix over Queen’s Gambit
Nona Gaprindashvili, a Soviet-era chess star seems to be making a quick grab for $5 million from Netflix for a single line in the hugely popular series Queen’s Gambit. We’ll see.
Kids wreck schools, steal things to become TikTok celebrities
The City will fully close Allen Road this weekend for maintenance, starting Friday at 11 p.m. until Monday at 5 a.m. The closure will extend from Eglinton Avenue West to Sheppard Avenue West, including all on/off ramps at Allen Road and Highway 401.
But of course, change the names of all the vaccines for — ah, well — see if you can find a good reason. CTV
Faces that tell us of heartbreak and joy. On the left is Shemima Begum, the British-born girl who left England at 15 seven years ago to join ISIS and is now begging to be allowed to come home. It doesn’t look good. At centre is Gabby Petito, 22, who has vanished while on a US cross-country van trip with her boyfriend Brian Landrie. Some think the two sweethearts began to suffer emotional distress from too much closeness. Uh-huh. At right, the shining face of Amanda Gorman, 23, an eloquent young woman who is skyrocketing to stardom since her brief speech at Joe Biden’s inauguration. Wonderful.
Explosions can be heard on the Global News video at the scene of a fatal collision between two trucks at Havelock in Belmont Township near Peterborough Thursday. Highway 7 is closed in both directions between Belmont Township 11th Line and Mary Street.
The glitzy, perfect girls and women who show up on Instagram, the photo and video-sharing social networking platform, represent a powerful depressant to millions of teen girls who are spending pandemic hours on it. And Instagram’s owner Facebook is said to know this.
Three years after two Niagara Region cops fought a nasty fight at an accident site, a court is hearing the story of what happened from one of the officers. It seems as if there was bad blood before the fight began but the testimony Wednesday indicated a bathroom visit figured in the clash. This report was prepared Wednesday and testimony continues in Hamilton. Dispatcher could not believe she had a “blue on blue” shooting
Targeted attack at Mount Hope home of three men
Hamilton Police say a deadly home attack in the suburb of Mount Hope early Thursday was targeted by gunmen who knew the three male occupants, a father and two sons. The abducted man has been identified as 63-year-old Faqir Ali. Note the tweet below regarding a debt of nearly $12,000 apparently owed by Mr. Ali. One of his sons is dead and another wounded. CBC
.@HamiltonPolice have closed Beach Blvd between Eastport and 3rd Ave for ongoing investigation https://t.co/io12aItUap pic.twitter.com/k8yNmc5R2M
— Andrew Collins (@ACollinsPhoto) September 16, 2021
Montreal physician and university professor Fatima Fakkar has posted pictures of herself and some friends dressed in colourful Afghan dress as a celebration of their Canadian freedom. This as the new Taliban government continues to isolate women and restrict freedoms ranging from dress to travel.
Broadway shows begin rehearsals after 18-month shutdown
What better than a flight to New York and a couple of shows? Sadly, it still seems like an unattainable dream. Soon maybe.
Goats and Walleye all in a day’s work for OPP
It isn’t all traffic accidents for the men and women of the OPP. This week they rounded up a goat romping along a road north of Belleville. His fellow escapee knew enough to get home by himself. 680 News comedian Carl Hantske asked if they were charged with making a ewe turn. Then there’s illegal fishing on one of the many lakes of Greater Madawaska Township. Here we see some of the 32 fish seized from three fishermen by officers. They were instructed to add $50 to the fine for each fish exceeding the quota. That might add up to $1,000. Officers released the live fish and offered the remaining fish to anglers that weren’t in excess of their limits.
Statistics Canada says the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 4.1 percent on a year-over-year basis in August, more than the 3.9 that was expected. Some stunning year-over-year increases include chicken at 8.4 percent and pork at 9.3 percent. Overall, food prices are up nearly 7 percent. This year has seen a widespread resurgence in many products. Getting around is now particularly costly. Gasoline prices were up 32.5 percent compared to 2020 due to lower production than pre-pandemic. As restrictions eased and people started taking more trips, the traveller accommodation price index rose 19.3 percent. Real estate also moved even higher. The homeowners’ replacement cost index, which is based on new homes, was up 14.3 percent, the largest increase since 1987. It’s also the fourth straight month of double-digit growth.
The demonstration Monday outside Toronto General Hospital drew a relative few people. Estimates ranged from “dozens” to less than 50. At that, demonstrators were a mixed group ranging from those fighting a requirement to be vaccinated to keep working to those simply opposed to vaccines. Prominent among the protesters were members of something called Canadian Frontline Nurses. The website features nurses who seem to deal in “holistic” care and “natural healing”.
There’s been yet another twist in the knock-down battle between Canadian rail giants CN and CP to win possession of the sweet US rail company, Kansas City Southern. Early Monday it is reported that the KCS board has ruled that a takeover offer from Candian Pacific Railway Ltd. is a superior proposal to its agreement with Canadian National Railway Co. It had appeared that CN has locked up the KCS deal potentially making it the most powerful rail firm in North America. Now the US railway says it plans to terminate its deal with CN and sign a definitive agreement with CP Rail which has made a proposal valued at about US$31 billion including debt.
Five days to better the deal
But CN still has five business days to make changes to its offer to win back the support of the KCS board. CN’s offer is valued at about US$33.6 billion including debt, but the U.S. Surface Transportation Board dealt it a setback last month when it rejected CN’s plan to use a voting trust to complete the deal, something it approved for CP Rail. The trust would allow KCS shareholders to be paid before the U.S. regulator completes its review of the proposed takeover. CP Rail had signed a deal in March to buy KCS, but CN topped that offer and secured support from the KCS board for its proposal in May. Canadian Press
The Don Valley West federal election debate is tonight (Monday, September 13), from 7 to 9 p.m. and will be held virtually on Zoom. To attend, register online if you haven’t done so. The Leaside Residents Association adds an important update: the NDP and PPC candidates have withdrawn from the debate, and the Green Party candidate has not confirmed. The two confirmed participants are Rob Oliphant (Liberal) and Yvonne Robertson (Conservative). Here’s a look back at the in-person debate of 2019: Public wall-to-wall to hear LPOA’s Don Valley West debate
