WHEW! Expert confirms that Leslieville Hum is real
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The intrepid Beach Mirror reporter Joanna Lavoie continues her work into the source of the Leslieville Hum. That’s the distant noise complained of by many residents of lower East York for periods of time ranging from a year to four years. Lavoie has enlisted Dr. Colin Novak of the University of Windsor’s Department of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering. It seems like a good choice as he and his graduate students were the detectives who found the infamous Zug Island Hum that bothered people in Windsor for years. Dr. Novak points logically enough to the Toronto Port Lands where he suspects there is a large underground transformer of some type. He has scientifically “measured” the hum and confirms that it is real. But where? Further telling of this story here.
Appetite for food, sex at Regina prison seems unsurprising
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Appetite for food is endemic as is that other well-known hunger. So it is that a food protest by inmates at a Regina prison has seen not only a review of the edibles but the dismissal of a food worker for having sex with an inmate in a freezer. The food protest has ended with a tart remark from the Premier, Brad Wall, that the food looks okay to him and if one doesn’t like prison food the choice as to where one eats is only a matter of going straight. Mr. Wall did not comment on the freezer activity, although the food worker cannot come back to prison, probably not even if she is convicted of something, which she isn’t. Thank heavens it’s not illegal. There appears to be no protest about the quality of her overall work in the freezer.
ONTARIO PRISON WORKERS SETTLE
In other prison news, the union representing 6,000 Ontario correctional workers says it has reached a tentative agreement to settle all outstanding issues in contract talks with the province. The deal was reached around 5:30 a.m., Ontario Public Service Employees Union President Smokey Thomas told CP24 in a phone interview Saturday.
TTC notice in 13 languages on Bayview Ave. says nothing
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A sign at a stop for the 28 Bayview bus at Bayview Ave and Merton St says nothing in 13 languages. It appears the sign, posted over the regular stop beside a construction site, is intended to give directions to a temporary stop. But it doesn’t. The English part says Board Bus Or Streetcar At and then nothing. What appears to be the same message in 12 other languages (or not) may be helpful for something but seem unlikely to give away the location of the temporary stop. The 28 Bayview runs from the Davisville station to the Brick Works on weekends but is promised by the TTC as a permanent weekday service sometime this year as soon as the necessary buses arrive from a manufacturer. Fingers crossed. (Further searching finds a stop by Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, but no thanks to the sign).
OPP cruiser stolen at accident site and later recovered
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Erratic driving and then a wrong-way plunge down a ramp of Highway 410 caused a head-on collision Friday evening. When OPP officers leaped out of their cruisers to deal with the crash a man involved in the collision got into one of the cop cars and drove away. The cruiser has been located using its GPS but the suspect is still on the loose. The Commissioner may have something to say. CBC
Business brisk as Sports Swap patrons asked to be patient
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Many businesses would like the problem. The number of customers at Sports Swap at 1541 Bayview Ave. has caused the firm to post a notice on the front door asking people to be patient. The “high volume” of business has a caused delays apparently and now Sports Swap asks patrons to give the names to the cashier so that “everyone is served in order”.
WILD: Cats meet Cats Saturday night at Leaside Arena
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Leaside Wildcats will face off against the Nepean Wildcats Saturday night at Leaside Arena and the match could be wild. The home ice ladies will be meeting a formidable hockey franchise that holds third spot in the 20-team Provincial Women’s Hockey League (PWHL). Seventh-place Leaside will be hoping for a repeat performance of its December 19 win over another powerhouse, first-place Durham West Lightning. The puck drops at 7.40.
LADY SENS SUNDAY
On Sunday, January 10, Leaside will host the Ottawa Lady Sens beginning at 3.40 p.m. The Lady Sens are ranked 15th in the PWHL.
Bayview closed by accident Friday south of Eglinton Ave.
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Bayview Avenue was blocked to northbound traffic between Soudan Ave and Eglinton Ave. Friday afternoon because of a collision. Bus traffic was diverted along Millwood and up Cleveland to Eglinton. The road reopened about 4 p.m.
GOT HIM: Mexico nabs druglord Joaquim Guzman
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Police tell a YouTube tale of serial shopping mall molester
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York Region Police spin an interesting YouTube story with surveillance video of a man they think is a serial molester in the nearby Upper Canada Mall. Whoever it is, he has been at it since last summer and cops reasonably conclude that he lives quite nearby.
TODAY’S TIP: Don’t smash into police cars when drunk
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Police say two drunk drivers crashed into police cruisers early Friday in North York. There’s really not a lot more to tell about these hapless motorists except they are no longer driving. It happened after midnight when a woman rear-ended a cruiser on Finch Avenue West near Rumike Road. She ran away but guess what they caught her. Later, a man bumped into a cruiser at the same scene and was arrested. Class dismissed.
Resin used in LRT work causes bad odour along Eglinton E
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Dr. Kathleen Healey
A resin called Styrene-acrylonitrile being used in LRT construction is causing a foul smell along Eglinton Ave. west of Bayview Ave. Jen Murray of the Insight Naturopathic Clinic said it smells like a “giant permanent marker had exploded.” The resin is used to strengthen sewer pipes as tunneling work proceeds underground. In everyday life, it is used to protect things like food containers, kitchenware, computer products, packaging material, battery cases and plastic optical fibers. It is said to make many things resistant even to boiling water Dr. Kathleen Healey at 543 Eglinton said she and her assistant have been “sickened” by the smell. But Dr. Healy seemed most annoyed that Metrolinx, the Ontario agency in charge of construction, could not tell her and her associates what it was.