Planner Jennifer Keesmaat to reveal more about Toronto’s transit “motherlode.” Rich. Metro
Meeting tonight to discuss Midtown Community Hub
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Republished from February 6, 2016: Josh Matlow (Ward 22) will join local parents on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 between 7 and 9 p.m. to keep alive the dream of a Midtown Community Hub at the site of a new Davisville Public School near Yonge St. and Millwood Rd. Several community uses will be discussed that would benefit the wider community at such a recreation and community hub. The meeting will take place at Greenwood College School, Room 103, 443 Mt Pleasant Rd. Who will give Davisville Village a Hub — and a heart?
Messy, messy snow slows traffic, airlines and dog-walking
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It’s about five centimetres and it is making a mess of everything. The snow is forecast to end late Tuesday afternoon and it will be mainly cloudy tonight with flurries beginning again before tomorrow morning. The city says it will continue to salt the roads during rush hour this morning.
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Flooding from burst pipe closes ER at St. Michael’s
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The Emergency Department at St. Michael’s Hospital has been closed until further notice as the hospital deals with a flood caused by a broken pipe. It sounds as if the damage is considerable. Patients are being cared for in other parts of the hospital and no new emergency cases are being accepted.
Westminster Kennel decides top dog Tuesday in New York
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SIU probe apparent police shooting at Wynford Drive hotel
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The inquiry into a shooting in which a man was seriously injured in the parking lot of the Toronto Don Valley Hotel & Suites on Wynford Drive is now in the hands of the Special investigations Unit (SIU). Although nothing has been said, this would suggest only one thing — a TPS officer fired a shot or shots in some sort of confrontation. It happened about 4 p.m.
GLASS FALLS FROM FOUR SEASONS
A sheet of glass fell from one of the upper storeys of The Four Seasons Hotel Toronto on Yorkville at Bay Sts Monday afternoon. . Hotel staff says there are concerns that other glass is loose and may also fall. Yorkville Street is closed for this reason as the investigation goes on.
Drake makes NBA weekend scene with his “favorite teacher”
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Drake spent Valentine’s Day and the NBA scene with a woman he calls his “favourite person in the world” — a Toronto teacher who helped the rapper graduate high school. He and teacher Kim Janzen took in the East versus West matchup and other festivities. “My date for tonight’s game. Who else but my favourite high school teacher who helped me graduate,” Drake wrote on Instagram. “Happy Valentine’s. Hope everybody is getting love from somewhere,” he said. Drake graduated high school in 2012, just before his 26th birthday.
Zoo releases new video of panda cubs on the move
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The Toronto Zoo panda cubs which were born on October 13, 2015, continue to grow. Now just over 4 months old, they have started taking solid steps and are becoming extremely mobile.
Zero today with a week that looks more manageable
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Alberta housing project employs and stores thermal heat
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A project in Okotoks in southern Alberta captures heat from the sun in summer and uses it to heat homes during winter. It appears to follow the geothermal heating concept employed at a home at 43 Bessborough Drive in Leaside. This project was profiled in 2011 and is re-published just below. Advocates of this method, like the man interviewed in this CBC report, speak of the practical to climate change. But it is also a concept to achieve uninterrupted power supply (UPS), or at least more consistent power when a home or neighborhood goes off grid. Home storage batteries fed by solar is another.
FLASHBACK: Geothermal conversion at 43 Bessborough
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This story was published in The South Bayview Bulldog in February 2011. A home at 43 Bessborough Dr. is being converted to geothermal heating, a technique which uses the earth’s heat to heat and cool the building. It would seem to be a fairly rare project. The home is undergoing a renovation and with it, workmen are drilling down an unknown distance to tap the heat of the earth. As one worker at the site said, “This house is going to be completely disconnected from natural gas.” At the left, a bin containing mud from drilling is being evacuated. At right, shots of the drilling equipment.
Geothermal heating relies on an energy exchange between the air within the building being heated and the ground. Below ten feet the earth’s temperature is fairly constant (generally between 50º-56°F). During the summer when the ambient temperature of the building exceeds that of the ground heat pumps are used to pump heat from the building into the transfer medium (typically water with small amounts of ethanol or glycol) and is subsequently pumped through narrow pipes into the ground so that the heat can be dissipated in the earth. When the ambient temperature falls below the ground temperature the process works in reverse. Heat pumps extract heat from the ground and use it to heat the building. Wikipedia
Furtado O Canada furore as West beat East 196-173
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#KobeBryant takes the mic before his final All-Star Game #NBAAllStarTO https://t.co/YDJmV9bdz9
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) February 15, 2016
Twitter furore of Nellie Furtado rendition of O Canada NBA game final on Twitter