Enduro Sport Bike Swap Drop next Saturday

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Enduro Sports will a conducting a large Bike Swap Drop next weekend at the Leaside arena in the William Lea room.  Doors open at 9 a.m. Saturday February 28, 2015. Sellers who wish to participate are invited to drop off their gear at the Enduro Sports offices at 94 Laird Drive.  They can do so until Friday, February 27th. See their Facebook page. Swapped items can be turned into an Enduro Sport gift card or cash (less a small commission). Buyers are invited to find what you need from Aerobars to Zipp wheels and everything in between.  Bikes will range in price, it’s said, from a few hundred bucks to a few thousand and there will be great deals. Enduro promises the swap will be well staffed. 

Sex ed teaching changes discussed by minister

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Education Minister Liz  Sandals is on the news conference trail Monday talking about how the sex-education curriculum is changing. It is a delicate subject in different ways for different people. Many can relate to the useful education of children in the mechanics of sex (our term) but equal numbers become uneasy over such things as the teaching of same sex marriage in Grade 3. The issue usually lies in the irresistible wish on the part of most parents that their children will marry and have children. Talk about going to  the heart of  things. And consent. The minister is saying today we need “a very explicit conversation about consent — what does consent mean and what do healthy relationships look like — I think in that piece we may become the leader.” CP Newsboy

As many as 60 girls have left U-K for jihadi life

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As the families of three London girls issue desperate appeals for their children to come home, it appears more and more likely that they have in fact crossed over from Turkey to Syria and become part of ISIS society, such as it is. Caroline Hawley of the BBC has this well-done report on the task facing Britain to make girls understand the folly. 

Service Ontario store moving to Brentcliffe Rd.

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The Service Ontario store will move from its location of some four years at 854 Eglinton Ave. E to Unit 102 at 939 Eglinton East, a storefront which actually faces Brentcliffe Rd. Unit 102 is at the north end of the strip,  next to Select Sandwich. The new location will be open Monday March 2, 2015 after the current store closes for the last time at 5 p.m. Friday, February 27, 2015. There will be service provided on the Saturday, February 28, 2015 at Service Ontario centres at 839 Yonge St. (at Davenport) and 1871 O’Connor Dr. south of Victoria Park Ave. 

Faulty air bag scandal drives out head of Honda

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Honda Motor Co Chief Executive Takanobu Ito wipes away perspiration as he appears with his replacement as the big boss of the company, Takahiro Hachigo. Hachigo is a low profile engineer at Honda which may contribute to Mr. Ito’s embarrassment. In fact, he is being removed following a huge series of recalls related to potentially explosive air bags. In addition, Japan’s No.3 auto maker has hit a rough patch over the past year with quality problems on its popular Fit hybrid subcompact, which Ito conceded earlier this month could have been caused at least in part by an aggressive sales target.

March is 6 days away for whatever that’s worth

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March 2015 is six days away for whatever that may be worth. The unremitting cold of this February has spooked people with the the spectre of a never-ending winter. Another record has been broken today as a 43-year-old temperature mark falls. At 5 a .m. the temperature hit – 20.1 C at Pearson International Airport, breaking the previous record for February 23 of – 19.4 C (1972). But is the failure of even the slightest warming break through the deep winter weeks that has been the most wearing on people. Weather