Team Canada collects six more medals Monday morning

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Thornhill inferno: House under construction burns to ashes

The Youtube comments for this video run the gamut from sympathy to cynicism (insurance) but it was quite a spectacular. The home was under construction and nearing completion. Powerstream said electricity was out to 84 nearby homes.

PANAMANIA snaps from Saturday night

PANAMANIA Live @ Nathan Phillips Square, July 11, 2015.  Entertainment featured Wyclef Jean & Serena Ryder.  The Bulldog recommends a trip to one of the many free celebrations happening around town.  Fireworks will be set off at Nathan Phillips Square every night during #PANAMANIA at approximately 10:50pm.  www.toronto2015.org/panamania

Small fire in garage on Killdeer Cres in northeast corner

There was a fire in a garage early Monday morning in a garage on Killdeer Crescent where it joins Glenvale Blvd in Leaside’s northeast corner. It was quickly extinguished.

Toyota, General Motors Ontario plants get tops marks

This is a story that should be taken taken home. It outlines the quality of car manufacturing in Ontario even as companies make decisions to move to Mexico. Many of the cars there are of good quality too. London Free Press 

Pan Am standings so far look very good for Canada

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Novak Djokovic defeats Roger Federer at Wimbledon

New York Times 

Hotel implosion makes way for Detroit Red Wings arena

Here was see the 1924 Park Avenue Hotel imploded as the final clearing for the the site of a stadium for the Detroit Red Wings takes place. The Park Avenue was the place to be seen when Detroit was the fabled automotive centre of the world.

Germans want a trustee to sell off Greek assets

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has spoken of  five-year Greek exit from the euro zone as an option for helping the long-running debt crisis.  The newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine contains leaked extracts of finance ministry paper that offers a way out (Grexit) as one of two options. The Germans reportedly view the latest proposals from Athens as failing to address “central, important reform areas to modernize the country and bring sustainable development”. The German are bitter about what they see as Greek off-hand approach to paying their debt. Another newspaper headline above reads: “(Greek Premier) Tsipras laughs and we pay, pay, pay.”  The German paper see Greece, with parliamentary support, hand over assets worth €50 billion to a trustee fund which would sell them and set off the proceeds against Greek debt. The second Berlin proposal involves the EU agreeing a temporary Grexit of at least five years to allow Athens restructure its debts. The country would remain a full EU member and would be given technical and financial support for measures to boost growth and address humanitarian needs.

Faded Genes play Seven44 Mt. Pleasant in aid of CAMH

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Canadian synchronized swimmers win gold medal

Reuters

Canadian women’s kayak four win Pan Am gold

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Canadian women have won the K-4 500 metre paddle to open the scoring for Canada at the Pan Am Games. Cuba won the silver medal and Argentina the bronze. Globe and Mail