A London-based photographer Brock Elbank is on a mission: to photograph as many freckled people as possible. A self-confessed lover of the skin feature, he wants to celebrate freckles in all their glory. For #Freckles he has so far photographed 90 people from around the world — BBC
Dion Phaneuf was honoured by Leaf fans last night and he responded to the message of gratitude by applauding back in a brief skate of acknowledgement during a television timeout. “I just want to thank the fans for what they did. It meant a lot to me. That was some good closure. Real classy by them.” This slightly tearful moment lasted not very long as the former Leaf captain went on to drop the gloves in a scrap with one of his former teammates.
There is no winner of the $7-million Saturday night Lotto 6-49 jackpot. The jackpot for the next draw on Mar. 9 will be approximately $9-million.
Leaside Wildcats hit the playoff trail tonight at home against the London Devilettes. The teams will meet in a best of five preliminary series. The Cats finished sixth in regular play in the Provincial Women’s Hockey League and the Devilettes eleventh. The puck drops at 8.15 at Leaside Gardens. The second game goes Sunday at 3.30 also at home.
Registration for the annual conservation exercise known as Paddle the Don opens next Tuesday, March 8, 2016. The event is set for Sunday, May 1, 2016 when some 600 canoe and kayak savvy paddlers will find their down the river into midtown Toronto. Floodgates are opened a bit just before the paddle to make the ride smoother and faster. Paddle the Don is no spur of the moment adventure. It requires planning and on the day of the event there are federal officials present to make sure you have things like a whistle, emergency rope and life vest. But for those who can do it, Manulife’s Paddle the Don is an exhilarating rite of Spring and tribute to the natural lands that run through our neighborhoods.
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In what seems like an act of unmatched human kindness, a Mississauga woman is driving a pickup truck loaded bottled water to Flint, Michigan where the population can draw only polluted water out of its taps. The Flint story is known around the world. Whether City officials are criminally guilty of poisoning taxpayers or just monumentally stupid — or both — remains an open question but Jesssica Dalessandreo wants to help her fellow humans and is prepared to ferry clean water to them “until run out of money.” CBC
An Ontario judge has approved a revised agreement which will allow 1,600 employees of Scotiabank receive $ 20.6 million for overtime for which they were not paid. The judge, Edward Belobaba of the Superior Court of Ontario, said he will release his reasoning in coming weeks. A class action against Scotiabank was originally settled in 2014, and since that time, nearly $ 18.7 million has been distributed among 600 members of the appeal. But 1,600 of the 2,200 employees who had filed a claim had them reduced or rejected. These people will now share the 20.6 million. The bank is said to have paid another 12.5 million in legal costs to come to these two agreements.
Police report an unusual case of a mugging at Starbucks where the target was a $34,000 Rolex watch. They say a man brought his Rolex to the Starbucks at Bathurst St. and Finch Ave. to sell the timepiece. It must have been a set up because police say the man captured by a security camera slugged the 44-year-old watch owner, grabbed a bag containing the watch and fled. Police have released the image taken from security camera footage of their suspect. He is described as a white male in his 20s, standing five-feet-ten inches with a heavy build. He has facial hair, and was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 32 Division at 416-808-3200 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS.
Air travellers rejoice. Or at least, breathe easier. Boeing engineering has created a prototype lavatory that can clean itself using UV light to disinfect surfaces. According to Business Insider, the aircraft maker has patented the design which it says can kill 99.99 percent of all germs in three seconds and eliminate odors. Industry analysts agree that an invention which makes a busy bathroom clean and smell nice even as it is used by dozens of people is a breakthrough. The system is activated when the lavatory is unoccupied. “We’re trying to alleviate the anxiety we all face when using a restroom that gets a workout during a flight,” Boeing’s director of environmental performance Jeanne Yu said. The prototype also uses a list of touch-less features to keep things clean, including a toilet seat that lifts and closes itself to assure that the UV disinfecting process includes all surfaces. “Some of the touchless features are already in use on some Boeing airplanes today,” Yu said. “But combining that with the new UV sanitizing will give passengers even more protection from germs and make for an even better flying experience.”
City News has reported on complaints from homeowners on Eglinton between Sutherland Drive and Hanna Road about alarming shaking of their homes and noise caused by tunnelling of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Above is a portion of the embedable City News report transferred to YouTube.
It’s hard to go wrong when you are a Canadian prime minister being interviewed by the CBS program 60 Minutes. In the case of Mr. Trudeau, it all went well. The program can be seen Sunday.
The Toronto stock market finished the week with an inspiring 3.2 percent gain as resource stocks tracked commodity prices higher and after data showed a better-than-expected U.S. jobs gain and record Canadian exports. Energy stocks climbed nearly 3 percent, while the materials group, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertilizer companies, added 0.2 percent after some gains were pared. That nature of markets was at last working for investors as downtrodden prices were just too attractive to resist, said analysts.
