Sun News Network to sign off for good this Friday
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GM will build new generation Chevy at Ingersoll
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Automaker will invest $560 million in Ingersoll plant which currently makes the best selling Chevrolet Equinox SUV. This will tool up the plant for the re-modeled version of the same popular vehicle. It is a case where the low price of oil means jobs in Ontario. Cars made in Ingersoll with the 80-cent Canadian dollar only need to be shipped 150 miles to make GM a nice bonus. And the local pay cheques represent money that will find its way to Toronto. Globe and Mail
Toronto to lend itself cash to balance the budget
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Is it the most prudent way to deal with a shortfall of $86 million needed to balance the budget? Or a short-sighted way for the Mayor to avoid raising taxes when he said that he wouldn’t? Critics predict a crushing tax increase in a few years if we don’t face the music now. The shortfall created by the Ontario government seems destined to appear every year. New forms of revenue, i.e. taxes seem necessary. And then there is the question of what it costs to run the City. The commitments are so extensive a layperson can hardly grasp them, much less judge them. Ann Hui, Globe and Mail Jennifer Pagliaro, Toronto Star
Johnny’s love note to June is the all-time greatest
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A Valentine’s Day feature sponsored by the Daily Mail newspaper has found that a love letter written by Johnny Cash to his wife June in 1994 is judged by readers the greatest such missive of all time. Writers today are recalling Cash’s rather stoic image in the context of this letter revealing a deeply romantic soul. His relationship with wife June Carter Cash was chronicled in the movie ‘Walk the Line,’ as well as ‘Anchored in Love,’ a book written by their son, John Carter Cash. The letter was written to mark June’s birthday and reads in part: “Once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met.” Cash wrote while he was in Odense, Denmark. “You’re the object of my desire, the #1 Earthly reason for my existence.” The sweet letter has been voted the greatest love letter of all time by the readers of the Daily Mail in the U.K., topping romantic missives from Napolean, Richard Burton, Beethoven, King Henry VIII and John Keats. See the note and read it here.
Still space at bamboobay for PA Day Art Camp
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Parents looking for nice way to keep the kids busy on tomorrow’s PA day should give Bamboo Bay a call (416) 901 1255. Bamboo Bay (bamboobay) is a fun environment and conveniently located at the corner of Millwood Rd. and Bayview Ave. Carrie Tse’s school of creative expression has bright offices above the shops on the northeast corner. Look for Write Impressions. Carrie is a dedicated teacher of art and a mom herself. She has stocked her classroom with quality paint, paper and crafts Bamboo Bay
Donor-husband is “My hero, best man I know”
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A news conference at the Hospital for Sick Children has been told that doctors have identified as many 7 possible liver donors for the second Wagner twin, Binh. They are working on refining the medical match and say they hope to do the transplant that will save the child’s life within about a month. At the news conference Joanne Wagner (inset) adoptive mother of the two Vietnamese children, offered a moving thank you to her husband for giving up part of his liver for the other twin, Phuoc. That operation occurred earlier this week and was pronounced successful for both parties by doctors this morning. Ms. Wagner said her husband is “my hero, the best man I know” for his act. The girls have a genetic disorder called Alagille syndrome. It affects their vital organs and is fatal without a transplant. The surgeries on Tuesday lasted 13 hours at the Toronto General Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children.
Cruel and unusual cold could burst more pipes
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It’s the cold but it’s also that uncertain catastrophe known as a broken water main. Weather experts and engineers have to admit that these are the conditions for such things. Weather Channel
FLASHBACK! It happened last year in Leaside
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There are lots of broken water mains and even some sinkholes in the news this week. Here’s a reminder of a huge sinkhole that struck at the corner of Sutherland Drive and Hanna Rd just a year ago. Flashback!
A galloping kind of rush hour in York Region
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This was the kind of traffic motorists in Stouffville were being warned of yesterday during the afternoon rush hour. York Regional Police tweeted that a horse was on the loose in the area of Hwy 48 and St John Sideroad and warned drivers to be cautious. It broke free of its owner and was last seen traveling eastbound on St John Sideroad. This video from the YRP archives shows a horse that got away from his owner and took a nice easy gallop until it was corralled by police and a local farmer and returned home. We hope yesterday’s escapee found its way back home safely as well.
Noted newsman Bob Simon dead in NY taxi crash
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CBS News 60 Minutes correspondent and foreign reporter Bob Simon died on Wednesday night at the age of 73, the network announced. The veteran newsman was reportedly in a cab when it crashed on the West Side Highway in New York City, police told the Daily News. Simon’s cab collided with another vehicle around 7 p.m., sending it off the road, the New York Post reported. Both the driver and Simon had to be cut out of the cab, according to the paper. Simon was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital in serious condition, but later died from his injuries. The driver of the cab and the 23-year-old driver of the other involved vehicle were not seriously injured, according to the Daily News. The award-winning reporter’s career spanned five decades, taking him conflict scenes around the world. Simon joined CBS in 1967, and then 60 Minutes in 1996. Over his career, he covered topics including the Vietnam War and the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. One of his most notable assignments, “Curveball,” detailed the investigation of the Iraqi defector who provided the faulty testimony that eventually led America to war. Simon spent 40 days in an Iraqi jail after being arrested while covering the Gulf War. He won a total of 27 Emmys.
Concordia captain sentenced to 16 years in prison
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The captain of the Costa Concordia has been sentenced to prison for 16 years. Francesco Schettino was called everything from a coward and to an idiot during the19-month trial into his responsibility for the loss of the flagship ocean liner. It was established that Schettino took his vessel too close to shore while entertaining a woman passenger. In the event, Schettino may count himself lucky since a maximum sentence for all charges would have netted a 26 year term.