Bayview Ave closed at Sutherland Dr. Tuesday morning
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Bayview Ave. was closed early Tuesday morning because a collision between a TTC bus and a motorcycle north of Moore Ave at Sutherland Drive. The 88 Leaside bus was diverted for a period of time. The road is open now. Rosedale Valley Road is also re-opened after a fallen tree was cleared from the westbound lane.
Rachel Dolezal’s black brother says come back to the family
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Rachel Dolezal’s black brother asks her to come back to the family she has denied. Ms. Dolezal resigned as the head of the Spokane NAACP after her parents publicly said she is not black.
Tall, muscular man lost his balance on cruise ship’s railing
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Keith White was a tall man, maybe six foot two inches or more from his appearance in a family photo above. White, on the left, was also large and muscular across his shoulders and in his upper arms. Investigators can only wonder how high the 34-year-old man had to lift himself with those strong arms on the second-deck railing of the Northern Spirit cruise ship Saturday night to lose his balance. Witnesses say he flipped over it, then lost his grip and fell two storeys to the lake below. Some have said not enough was done to rescue Mr. White and that may be true. But it is also true that falling off of a large passenger vessel at any kind of speed is an almost certain death sentence. Throwing a life ring at those distances is almost always futile. The shipping line, Mariposa Cruises, said it took some time to turn the boat around. In fact, Toronto police summoned by 9-1-1, were able to get to the scene before security staff had lowered a rescue boat.
Globe says Ontario government to “regulate” carding
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GAP falls between the cracks as shoppers head elsewhere
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GAP, the trendiest clothes retailer of Y2K, will lock the door at 175 stores across North America including an unknown number of its 90 Canadian locations. In recent years, the appeal of the company’s goods faded somewhere along the way. although its Old Navy brand continues to do well. Gap Inc. also owns Banana Republic. The first GAP stores to go total 140 and will close this fiscal year. A further 35 will close later. Sources at the GAP specifically refused to say what is happening in Canada except that there will be closures. The San Francisco company also is closing an undisclosed number of stores in Europe. And it’s cutting jobs at its headquarters in an attempt to make the operation faster and more decisive. GAP has stores at Fairview Mall, First Canadian Place, on Queen Street W., Yonge Street and Yorkdale Shopping Centre. GAP also has seven Baby GAP stores similarly located in Toronto but the company has not mentioned this brand.
“World needs more Canadas” says Bono after meetings
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Cirque du Soleil talks of Pan Am Games opening ceremony
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Hudson’s Bay buys German department store chain
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Informed information about South Korean MERS outbreak
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There is work to do, but this expert suggests South Korean authorities are getting their act together to end this outbreak of a disease which originates in camels in the mideast.
City slowly waking up to the march of monster mailboxes
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The Toronto City government appears to be slowly waking up to the arrival of community mailboxes. An Ontario court concluded last week that Canada Post can put the boxes just about anywhere it likes.. That decision came from the valiant effort by Hamilton to get control over the march of these boxes, some of them the size of bus shelters. Whatever unchallenged right Canada Post has had to put boxes anywhere dates from the 19th Century. Community mailboxes will occupy an amount of land that was completely unanticipated by the government when the post office was formed. It represents a huge task to make sure these installations are safe and well-maintained. The City is now going to tell Canada Post about these concerns but it has been slow to wake up to the march of the community mailboxes. Canada Post says it intends to end door to door delivery in South Bayview in 2017. There’s also what appears to be clear departure from fair and equal treatment of all Canadians required by the constitution as the Post Office says it will continue door to door-to-door delivery in perpetuity to downtown neighbourhoods. How nice for them.
Hospital generating most MERS cases in South Korea
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Authorities have isolated an entire hospital in Seoul after it became clear the institution was the epicentre of the continuing MERS outbreak. The SARS-like disease got its start in Saudi Arabia where it is generally said to be under control. In South Korea MERS is not spreading because it is confined to the hospitals, just as SARS was confined to Toronto hospitals in the final days of the 2003 epidemic. But it also appears that through management issues too many people are catching the disease in the hospital;. Toronto Sun