Target Canada Co. has reached an agreement with its former landlords, companies like Morguard, owners of the East York Town Centre, whose leases were terminated when Target pulled up stakes and move out last year. Under the agreement, the landlords will support the company’s plan under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and presumably receive some payment.
The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) was surging again Friday in what would be its seventh straight winning session if gains hold. The index was teasing an increase of 140 at noon. Equally delicious, the week seems set to deliver a 3 percent gain as mining and energy stocks rise on higher commodity prices and after data showing stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs data and higher Canadian exports.
Carlie Weinreb
An Armour Heights girl, eight-year-old Carlie Weinreb has learned her Dad’s accounting skills so well she was invited to the University of Toronto to give a class of much older people an informed lecture on how to do your taxes. Mr.Weinrb started teaching Carlie math when she was just two By four, she was multiplying and dividing. By six, she was lecturing university students about Canada’s income tax system. Now the Summit Heights Public School student is eight and continues to teach students three times her age about taxes and applied math. After learning the mechanics of tax formulas from her father, Carlie was a quick study in filling out tax returns. CBC
The scenes shown here seem to promise the same madcap energy as the original film. Leading the women of Who Ya Gonna Call are Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy. Bill Murray has a cameo. Such goofy fun. IMDb
Mike Crawley writing from the Legislature for the CBC says education minister Sandals has refused to deny that the government will close schools for the deaf and disabled.
Motorists both local and those passing through Moore Park should get ready for the Mt. Pleasant and Moore Avenue Watermain Construction and Chamber Refrotfit. Ominous collections of giant traffic cones and backhoes signal a project that will take a while. The construction work goes on until 3.30 when the roads have to re-open.
FORGOT TO TAKE DOWN THE NO TURN SIGN
The sign on Mt. Pleasant just north of Rose Park Drive says we can expect completion in the Spring of 2016. But the no right turn sign does not apply during construction (or any other time the road is open). It was still there Thursday night because, as the foeman confessed Friday, they forget to take it .
Parents and kids rocked Family Fun Night at North Public School on Rumsey Thursday evening. Infectious excitement sent pupils dashing through the halls to many venues in both gyms, the library and classrooms. Parents purchased tickets to raffles and other entertainments to raise money for in-school extras at Northlea. It seemed as if every parent was there as cars parked up and down Rumsey, along Divadale Drive and other streets. Parent Claudine caught the spirit as she prepared to call first graders to a snack of donuts. No problem.
Vanessa Oliver of Regent Street Retail and Restaurant Solutions was telling the South Bayview Bulldog that 690-692 Mt. Pleasant (at Soudan) will be divided into two locations for restaurant use. Nothing has been finalized and the premises are for lease. Area residents will fondly remember the quality years that this location enjoyed in the early part of the century as Lai Toh Heen (inset) the superb Chinese cuisine restaurant. Lai Toh Heen was impacted as were many fine dining restaurants by the downturn in business after 2008. It closed in 2011. The good news is that its sister (and original business) Lai Wah Heen has been resurrected at the DoubleTree by Hilton (formerly Metropolitan) Hotel on Chestnut Street. When the hotel was renovated in 2014 it was not clear if Lai Wah Heen would return but it is back with what appears to its previous fine menu which includes some of the better Dim Sum to be had downtown..
Another dangerous bit of dealing on Kijiji has come to light as an Ottawa woman has paid fraudsters the “last month’s rent” on a house she thought she had leased. But no. The owner of the home Kit Pullen had not rented his home and the woman was out of luck. The crooked deal resulted in the woman’s furniture and belongings being dumped in Pullen’s driveway at 4 a.m. in the middle of a snowstorm. It is incredibly irresponsible but finally the driver of the U-Haul did come back and pick up the woman’s possessions.
Parents at Northlea Public School are reminded that this is Family Fun Night at the school. The event will raise money for Northlea in-school programs. Events begin at 5 and last until 8 p.m.
Loblaws says it will expand its program of bruised and misshapen produce across the country as a way for consumers to save money on expensive fresh food. The evidence of this program has been only minor in area Loblaws but based on the acceptance of the misshapen produce generally the store says it will add peppers, onions and mushrooms to stores in Ontario.
