A 69-year-old man has died at St. Michael’s Hospital after a huge truck wheel smashed into the windshield of his SUV on Highway 400. OPP say the accident happened about 9:30 Wednesday morning when the southbound truck lost a set of wheels. They hurtled across the highway into the northbound lanes and struck the SUV.
Many South Bayview residents wakened by sound of Spring
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Good morning
Many residents of Moore Park, Bennington Heights and those in parts of South Leaside heard the sound of Springtime as they woke this sunny Wednesday. No doubt others across the area heard such music as well. These may be birds which don’t go far from here even in harsher weather than the zero degree day forecast for January 27, 2016. It certainly seemed to suit the feathered early risers. Nice and a lot more in touch with what’s happening than the groundhog superstitions yet to come in February.
Authors at Sleuth of Baker Street Thursday, January 28
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Authors Ian Hamilton and R. J. Harlock will be at Sleuth of Baker at 907 Millwood Rd. at Sutherland Drive tomorrow (Thursday January 28, from 6 to 7:30 pm). They will be introducing their newest novels, The Princeling of Nanjing (#8 in Ian’s Ava Lee series) ($19.95) and A Cold White Fear (#7 in Robin’s Meg Harris series) ($17.95). There will be short readings, questions and signings.
McGuinty aides in court today facing breach of trust
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Berserk purse snatcher pries open train doors to escape
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When you ride GO Transit you have to hope that your fellow passengers are not as berserk at the man who tried to grab a woman’s purse last night. When she held onto it the man hit the emergency alarm stopping the train. He then pried open the train door (what with?) and leaped onto the tracks to make an escape. He was last seen legging out it along the rails between Birchmount and Ranleigh in Scarborough
California cliff collapse creates killer view that will kill you
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Oh to be in Paris now that most of France is on strike
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Let’s see, taxis, schools, air traffic controllers, civil servants, hospital staff (that’s a good one) and others all on strike in France because of the state of things. NDTV
FOUND: Lost tale of Beatrix Potter’s “Kitty in Boots”
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This is a charming story that will thrill adults who grew up with Peter Rabbit. Now a new tale to enchant generations to come. Eli Glasner of the CBC.
Wynne-Trudeau political love affair could not expand CPP
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It was one of the most divisive issues of the recent federal election campaign. It was the stubborn stinginess of the miserly Stephen Harper to deny more money for an expanded Canada Pension Plan so that Ontario, in its own judgment, would not have to start a provincial plan. If only the Liberals were in power in Ottawa. The Premier was glad to say there would be no need for an Ontario Plan, much feared by employers as just another tax on business, if only Mr. Trudeau were in power. Today however, Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa had to say that it has so far proven too difficult to get the necessary agreement required among Canada’s provinces to expand the CPP. “We advocated strongly for a CPP enhancement, as did the federal government, but the consensus was not to be had,” Sousa told reporters. Thus, during a news conference in a coffee shop, Ms. Wynne and ministers Mr. Sousa and the Associate Minister of Finance (and political boss of Scarborough) Mitzi Hunter announced that the ORPP is plunging forward even though they weren’t able to say how much it will cost. But in echoes of notorious pensions that legislated Greece into a basket case, the ORPP will provide payouts to survivors, perhaps a daughter or son, when the pensioner dies. More here
Rare midweek game as Wildcats tackle Toronto Aeros
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The Leaside Wildcats will face off against the Toronto Aeros in a rare midweek game at York University Arena Wednesday night. It could be a good game with the eighth place Aeros looking to prove something against a Leaside team newly-installed in fourth place in the Provincial Women’s Hockey League. The puck drops at 6.30 at York.
Bayview Whole Foods store set to open in dismal downturn
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New Whole Foods expected to be open by April
The new Whole Foods at Bayview and Broadway Aves is expected to open no later than April and it’s sailing into a barrage of lousy economics and cranky consumerism. For one thing, Whole Foods stock is valued at half of what it was less than two years ago. What happened? According to CNN Money, things like the New York overpricing furore and lower same store sales are hurting the specialty food retailer. Into the bargain comes a Wall Street analyst downgrade based on a 1,000 shopper survey which concluded that prices were too high (The Whole Pay Cheque thing has stuck). There is a sore point even with people who have money. Are they paying too much for produce because is has been labelled organic. The New York consumers said they felt Whole Foods was inflating prices based on not much. There is no doubt that Whole Foods is a pleasant experience in the store but in South Bayview that’s pretty much the norm. Time will tell.
Iran Ayatollah visits Pope Francis and asks “pray for me”
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Pope Francis met Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani in the Vatican Tuesday. Rouhani is described by Iranians as a junior Ayatollah. The Pope urged Iran to back peace efforts in the Middle East. In a scene seldom-imagined the two men met and smiled they discussed Rouhani’s gift of a fine Persian carpet. In a statement afterwards, the Vatican said Francis had urged the Iranian leader to use Iran’s important role to promote, together with other countries, “adequate political solutions” to the problems afflicting the region and to help combat. Rouhani took a leaf from the Pope’s book and asked the Pontiff to pray for him.