Mr. Spock Leonard Nimoy dead at age 83
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Col. Chris Hadfield’s Facebook post says it all.
#Dress: Good time for aliens to enslave humanity
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Karolina Kluska has it right and with her pithy tweet above brings credit on herself and her gender. The banality now sweeping the continent about the colour of a dress is chilling. #TheDress and other hash trash tags
Laugh Out Loud in Leaside tonight at Wm. Lea
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The sixth annual Laugh Out Loud in Leaside (LOL) takes place this evening in the William Lea Rom at Leaside Arena. It begins at 7 p.m. and is in aid of Moorelands After-School programs which has helped children from less fortunate surroundings for more than a century. The mainspring of the Laugh Out Loud tradition is Leaside realtor Charlene Kalia. She issued a statement in a position as chair of LOL in Leaside: “Thousands of children and families who use the second ice pad at Leaside Arena, new immigrant families in need of clothing and support and now children in under served communities in Toronto have already or will benefit from a community’s generosity.” In the last five years, LOL in Leaside raised a total of $150,000 to support a second ice rink at Leaside Memorial Gardens. All funds raised this year will be directed to Mooreland’s various programs. We are honoured to be supported by our neighbours in Leaside,” said Maureen Lewish, director, development and communications at Moorelands. “Over 73 per cent of our families live on less than $24,000 a year in this city, so our focus is to bridge the opportunity gap for children and youth by offering creative, supportive and fun out-of-school programs to help these kids develop the character, skills and strategies they need to thrive.”
Bloomberg plans Canadian business channel
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Bloomberg News has set its course to begin a new Canadian news and business channel this summer. It will have “domestic news makers and detail the impact of global news on Canadian business” according to Bloomberg. The channel will be created with the partnership of Channel Zero, a Canadian company that owns CHCH-TV in Hamilton. CHCH may prove an important part of the “local” content for the new business channel. “Canada is a vital market for us,” founder and majority owner Michael Bloomberg said in a statement. “It is now one of our fastest-growing markets in the world.” The new channel is intended to broadcast non-stop from a studio in Toronto’s downtown financial district, and will have bureaus in Ottawa, Calgary, Montreal, Vancouver and Winnipeg. Bloomberg competes with Thomson Reuters in providing news, data and information to business and media clients.
Hockey Puck News: Tory supports 2nd NHL team
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Only a mayor who had been struck in the head by a hockey puck could have gotten this one wrong. So when John Tory was asked on 102.1 the Edge if he supported the idea of a second NHL team his worship said but of course Toronto could easily support a second team. Wow. This word from the chief magistrate was greeted like the arrival of free food and money. The euphoria in the media was unalloyed even as Mr. Tory added an observation that any Leaside Flames Atom could recite: “I think you have to get (NHL Commissioner) Gary Bettman here and say ‘OK, it’s time,’”
Phoenix Llama Drama Ding Dong chase ends well
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Car chases are common on TV news, but it’s very rare that we get to see a llama chase. And this one was a genuine Llama Drama Ding Dong. The two animals were spotted running through the streets of Sun City, Arizona outside Phoenix. They had been part of a demonstration at the Carillons GenCare Lifestyle Facility but somehow the mother and baby managed to wrangle loose. They were finally captured again by some expert lassoing. Give a look.
Ford Oakville will make right hand SUV for UK
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Ford will add 400 new jobs at the Oakville as production of the new Edge crossover SUV is set to launch. For the first time, a Canadian plant will make cars for shipment to the U-K as well as North America. Ford announced last October that 1,000 jobs would be added at the facility by the end of 2014 This ups the number to 1,400. It is very good economic news for the whole area from Hamilton to Toronto and beyond. news to build the redesigned Edge. And, with the addition of right-hand-drive and a diesel engine, the Edge will also be exported to the UK. Ford told Canadian Press that global demand for utility vehicles is up 88 per cent since 2008 and now account for 19 per cent of the global automotive market.
Leaside man dies in fall on knife on icy walkway
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Premier suggests PC member is “homophobic”
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Premier Wynne says she feels homophobia is behind some opposition to Ontario’s proposed sex education curriculum. The plan calls for the instruction of same sex instruction in Grade 3. An opening for this accusation came on the use of a single word from PC MPP Monte McNaughton in heated debate. He said “especially” the Premier should not be the judge of what was age appropriate for school kids. Would the Premier have used the H-word if McNaughton had not used the word especially? There is homophobia around no doubt. But the word never seems to be sufficiently well-defined in most contexts. Some parents fear impressionable children are going to be offered “alternatives” to the sex preference which most parents hope for when it comes to their children Is this a reasonable fear? Is it publicly permitted? Is it homophobia?
Couple gives birth to rare identical triplets
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A suburban Detroit couple, Lauren and Michael Whitely, have given birth to identical triplet boys. They already have two older son aged three and two. Amazingly, the rare identical births occurred without the use of fertility treatment of any kind. Identical births are those created from one egg. The triplets were born at Henry Ford Hospital in St. Clair Shores on January 25, 2015. The babies have been in newborn intensive care but now are able to carry on at home. The Whitelys are young. Lauren is 32 and Michael 31. He says it is amazing to find himself with five children at that age. Identical triplets also were born December 5 to a woman in Billings, Montana. Dr. Savitri Kumar, a neonatologist at Henry Ford Hospital, said data on identical triplet births by natural conception varies from one in 60,000 to one in 2 million. Most doctors call the chances “one-in-a-million,” Kumar said.
Man says chunks fell from Gardiner yesterday
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A Toronto man, Ahsen Ali Siddiqi, has told CP24 that two or more chunks of concrete fell from the Gardiner Expressway onto his mother’s car and another vehicle yesterday near the foot of Simcoe Street. No one was hurt. Siddiqi says however that vehicle glass was smashed to a crumpled safety-glass mess by the objects. The Gardiner Expressway has had pieces fall in recent times. Twitter suggests the last incident was recent December 2012. At that time several chunk were reported down and City Hall asked anyone seeing fallen concrete to leave it where it had dropped. The entire expressway is supposed to be under a type of maintenance to prevent such things.