Here are four of the fairly fit New York laddermen who grace the 2016 NYFD calendar. The New York Fire Department which is celebrating its 150th anniversary. So far as we can tell, next year’s Toronto Fire Service calendar isn’t out yet. But in every case, these galleries help support very good causes. The NYFD calendar is $16 U.S. and money goes to the fire department foundation which gives to a variety of charities.
So close: Leaside Team Red in valiant final inning effort
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Leaside Team Red were runners-up at the Lou Gehrig Iron Horse Tournament in Buffalo with the final game a true heartbreaker. They had won four games to face Victor NY for the championship. They were, as Mark Vendramini reports, one inch from total victory. They had won the semi in what Mark calls a “13-12 walk off.” In a final game of six innings, Team Red was tied when Victor NY scored one in the sixth. Leaside had the tying run on third, and the winning run on second with two out but could not push them across. Final was 9-8. It was a worthy game effort and a tournament showing to make Leaside proud. To get to the finals Team Red beat Victor Emmett 11-0, Grand Island 18-1, Cayuga 9-5. Thanks guys.
Rain tonight, rocky weather Monday as heat backs off
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The Veld electronic music concert in Downsview Park was cancelled Sunday night in the face of high winds and forecast conditions which may have sounded worse than they were. But the fans were sure to get very wet regardless of wind. Severe thunderstorm warnings have been downgraded to a weather watch for Toronto and surrounding area. There were some downed trees and Hydro reports about 1000 customers without power. Across Southern Ontario the number is much higher.
Rain, hail foretold by ominous late afternoon skies
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Quite a show around the 5.30 p.m. hour as the rains approached. Courtesy of Twitter posters top to bottom Winston Sih, Maaz Khan, Colin D’Mello (of CTV) and Suzie Parkinson. Wish we knew the location of Suzie’s amazing photo.
SHERWOOD PARK TREES TELEGRAPH THE RAIN
General Election will change how South Bayview votes
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The arrival of the election campaign of 2015 announced Sunday (August 2 2015) also officially puts in place the altered electoral boundaries drawn in 2013. In South Bayview, changes to Toronto Centre, Don Valley West and St. Paul’s will be noticeable. The top half of Toronto Centre has been lopped off and joined in a riding known as University-Rosedale. It stretches across the centre of the City from Moore Park to Ossington Ave. It lumps in the University of Toronto, Queen’s Park and Chinatown. The western boundary of Don Valley West now sits to the west on Mt. Pleasant Rd. This brings to an end a historic boundary in Bayview Ave which is now submerged in Don Valley West. The change shifts the residents of a large part of Davisville Village from the former St. Paul’s to the expanded Don Valley West. It leaves residents between Mt. Pleasant and Bayview represented not by Carolyn Bennett but by John Carmichael. Let the games begin. All Ontario electoral maps
Leaside Team Red at Rookieball Tourament in Buffalo
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See later post.
Prime minister expected to dissolve parliament today
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The singular act of dissolution will set Canada on an election campaign towards voting day, Monday October 19, 2015. Reuters CBC writes of eleven things that are different this time over the 2011 election. Only the first two — redistribution and the shakeup of the old debate structure seem important. Take a look.
Private firm buys the wheat board, partly owned by Saudis
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There will be no one alive who can recall when our wheat was not sold by the Canadian Wheat Board. This week that ended. The government finalized the sale of the CWB It is now a private company called Canada G3 Ltd and is partly owned by Saudi Arabia. Calgary Herald
Sept. 3 byelection chance for PC leader to enter Legislature
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Premier Wynne said Saturday she will call a byelection in the riding of Simcoe North for Thursday, September 3, 2015. It will be a chance for Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown’ to win a seat in the Legislature. Previously, the premier said she would not call an early byelection.
KILLING HEAT: Some parents just don’t seem to get it
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Reporter Christine Sloan tells the story from New Jersey of a well-intentioned mother who it seems just didn’t get it about deadly heated cars. She left her two-year-old in a van in the parking of a Costco on the hottest of days. Employees, passersby and finally the police all see the problem and break a window to get the kid out. The mother returned, her cart full, having been away 30 minutes. She apologizes. Reporter Sloan climbs into another car that has been parked for 30 minutes and measures the temperature. It registered 149 degrees Fahrenheit on her pocket thermometer. That’s 59.44 Celsius. A killing heat.
2022 Games: Millions will work free for the glory of China
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Beijing has been awarded the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Most candidate cities dropped out of the competition because of the cost. In such circumstances, it is a great advantage to China that millions of citizens will be inspired by patriotism to work essentially for nothing to make the Olympics a success. Reuters
Boring machine out and about at Eglinton and Brentcliffe
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This huge boring machine was manoeuvering towards the entrance to the LRT tunnels in the early hours of Saturday (August 1, 2015). Here was see it crossing Brentcliffe Rd. on Eglinton as Hydro workers lift wires to permit passage. More to come. Photo CBCToronto on Twitter Twitter