Thank you BBC Breakfast for sharing this video of a baby sloth and his fuzzy companion at the London Zoo. Happy Friday.
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Breaking: Canadian vaccine stops Ebola says Lancet
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Medical Journal The Lancet carries news today that a vaccine produced last year at Canada’s national laboratory in Winnipeg is an effective and fast immunization against Ebola. It is the first time an experimental Ebola vaccine has been shown to protect people against the deadly disease. There had been high hopes that this vaccine, called rVSV-ZEBOV. Now data from a field trial conducted in Guinea is said to show the vaccine “works pretty quickly, and it works well,” according to Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny of the World Health Organization
Where’s Sinatra? Once-in-a-blue-moon night is tonight
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It will appear tonight. Is it romantic? Just read the below Toronto Star
Blue moon
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my ownBlue moon
You knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for
And so on.
Coca Cola moves Walter Yarwood statue to Brampton
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l to r: Coke statue, Sculptor Walter Yarwood (below) What’s left
Coca Cola Limited has moved the Walter Yarwood bronze statue from 42 Overlea Blvd to its bottling plant at 15 Westcreek Blvd in Brampton. The statue was part of the memorable approach to the former Coca Cola offices in Thorncliffe Park and is still owned by the soft drink company. Coke has however offered to donate the statue to the City but the circumstances of that possible arrangement seem unclear at this writing. According to a Coke source at the Brampton plant, the statue is on the property but is not accessible to the public. The statue was removed from its base and resting place of more than half a century on the Overlea property about two weeks ago. The late Walter Yarwood was one of the so-called Painters 11. These were Canadian artists who formed their relationship in Toronto in 1953. In the latest planning idea offered by Costco for their proposed store at the Overlea site, the statue would sit more or less where it had been for so many years but in a new ground-level square.
Cheesed? Kraft Dinner to be called KD from this day on
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Times change and so does Kraft Dinner. Parents will recall when that brand was pretty much synonymous with the term Mac’n’Cheese. But no more. The new name is KD and the company claims that 80 percent of Canadian consumers use that name for the familiar blue box of macaroni. “The way Canadians refer to Kraft Dinner as KD is as much a term of endearment as when you call a relative or a friend by a nickname,” brand director Kristen Eyre said. We’ll take her word. So the name is changing and there is also a hashtag — #KDisnowKD.
Australian experts confident wreckage is from MH370
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Authorities hunting for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said Friday that they were “increasingly confident” the wreckage found on an Indian Ocean island was from the ill-fated jet, raising hopes of solving one of aviation’s great mysteries. Asia Times
Spellbinding drama as ducks succeed in crossing highway
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You will be riveted to this video as a family of ducks crosses a busy four-lane highway in Minnesota. The cars swerve, brake, nearly collide and pull off the road. It makes the occasional work of Toronto police on the Don Valley Parkway look easy. Truly a miracle. And quite dangerous for everyone.
Apple watch to be sold at Best Buy! Why not Canadian Tire?
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You know the Apple watch is moving slowly when it shows up courtesy of Apple at Best Buy. So if you’ve got $450 lying around for a watch, pop into Best Buy. Not CTC. CBC
Moving sidewalks shorten island airport trip to six minutes
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The new pedestrian tunnel to Billy Bishop Airport on Toronto Island has been opened and it has turned the 10 or 15 minute trip (sometimes) on the ferry into a six-minute quick-walk along moving sidewalks and escalators. It seems like a nice job and the striking model of Bishop’s 1917 Nieuport 17 in which he reputedly shot down the Red Baron is wonderful touch. Bishop was, in any event, a true Canadian hero. The video below shows the plan for three years of work (2012 to 2015) and is quite informative. All in all, a job well done.
Sweet fragrance of paid work as Saks announces new jobs
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Saks Fifth Avenue will hire as many as 365 people over the next six months to staff its Toronto stores on Queen Street and at Sherway Gardens. That number includes full and part-time staff. Work continues on the two stores which will open in the Spring of 2016. Following department store protocol these days, there will be an emphasis on the profitable cosmetics trade. It may be hard to get 20 feet inside without a squirt of some male, female or unisex fragrance. Hudson’s Bay Co. (TSX:HBC), owns and operates Saks after it acquired the New York-based company about two years ago. The retailer plans to bring seven Saks Fifth Avenue stores to Canada and as many as 25 stores under the Saks Off Fifth discount brand.
Smashed glass at Baskin Robbins on South Bayview
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An overnight break-in at the newly renovated Baskin Robbins at the corner of Bayview and Millwood was a very impolite welcome to the brand new franchisee. Reports say that the back door of Big Man’s Pizza was also compromised. Bulldog reader Claudia Vargas Thompson took her to Baskin Robbins and only to find out that a window had been smashed. “Raj, the new franchisee, told us he had had visitors last night (unwanted, of course). He looked truly concerned. Hopefully things get better for him soon. We wish him much success in this new location” Claudia wrote Baskin Robbins store re-opens
Top Gear trio to make show for Amazon streaming service
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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will be making a (yet-to-be-named) show for Amazon Prime streaming service. They will working with former Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman. The show is expected to be available worldwide in 2016. More: BBC