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
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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.”
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.
Four little boys have died in a farmhouse fire in the tiny Manitoba crossroads of Kane. They were caught in the two-storey home when fire destroyed it shortly after midnight. Their mother, 34, and three other children, a boy and two girls, escaped the flames and were found by police and fire officials sitting a vehicle on the property. The children who died are said be between the age of two and 15 years. The father arrived home from work to find his home in flames. He and his wife are said to have tried to enter, but were unable. Ralph Groening, the reeve of the area told CBC News many in the community know the family. “It was a large family and it’s a huge tragedy,” said Groening “We also know that the adults, the parents, put every effort into saving all of their children but were unsuccessful.” Bernard Schellenberg, fire chief is quoted as saying that “one section of the house, which is a new addition, had already collapsed, and the older portion of the house had fire coming out of the windows.” There is very little else known “It sounded like the parents tried to go in to get their children, but with heavy smoke conditions, they could not.” Schellenberg said the father made the emergency call when he saw smoke coming from his house as he was returning from work. He said 20 firefighters in three trucks responded to the call. He said the remains of those who died are still in the rubble of the house and the scene is now in the hands of the Office of the Fire Commissioner.