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Prince Philip, the Queen’s consort of more than 70 years, passed away at Windsor Castle on Friday, Buckingham Palace has announced.

Detour on Lake Shore Blvd Thursday

Traffic is snarled on Lake Shore Blvd Thursday because of a road closure between Newfoundland Drive and New Brunswick Way. Police say a pedestrian bridge has unspecified damage and poses a potential threat to cars below.

Britain’s highest court has awarded a man some £2 million (about $3.5 million Canadian) with costs after a long court case over whether a flaw in a digital blackjack game was enough to negate the jackpot win. The judges said “nope”.

BC cherry blossoms in full bloom

Lada-dee-dah in Havana

Cuba is famous (or notorious) for broken-down old cars but here’s a report on the Havana Lada Club and the love these drivers have for the world’s most unreliable car.

Early Wednesday on Bessborough Drive

A reader at Leaside Community has posted this photo which she says shows a man stealing her husband’s bicycle at their Bessborough Drive home Wednesday morning. An interesting Global News story says there were 4,000 bicycles reported stolen in Toronto last year. FB

Jennifer Tveter of Derry, New Hampshire, fostered and then adopted siblings Jonathan, Madeline and Benjamin. As you watch these children with the woman they now call mom, we think you’ll agree it could not seem more right.

Chevrolet to build electric Silverado

General Motors has announced that it will build an all-electric Silverado pickup truck. It will come from the same EV assembly line in Michigan that will produce the recently-announced GMC Hummer EV sport utility. No on-sale date has been announced for either one, but the Hummer SUV has been tagged with a 2024 model-year and suggestions it could launch early 2023. Chevrolet has yet to release any photos of the all-electric Silverado Driving

World-wide falcon watch at top of UK cathedral

Falcon-watching is a satisfying pastime here in Toronto and all around the world. But the eggs are nearly due at the nest atop Wakefield Cathedral in the UK and the audience is growing.

The government will announce specific restrictions on Wednesday afternoon on just what Ontario will have to live with for a month of stay-at-home lockdown. Grocery stores like Loblaws, Metro and others will likely see limited occupancy depending on the size of the store. Get ready to line up for provisions.

Olde Yorke closes takeout too

Olde Yorke Fish and Chips has decided to close even its takeout service immediately because of the C-19 surge. In a message Tuesday, the owner Olivia Feather, spoke about the personal concern she and others felt for people “in our age group.” She said: “We want to be pro-active to protect all our staff, and our family, who are in the age group that is now more at risk. We hope that the vaccines will be given to them shortly, as they have been on the front lines of exposure all this time. We will open once again when we feel comfortable with the situation ”

The government has decided to re-impose a stay-at-home order that also closes all but essential grocery stores except for takeout. CBC This decision comes the same day that the City of Toronto decided to close all schools and send kids back to virtual learning.

• Toronto’s northwest continues to be stubborn C-19 hotspot

Folded up like a scarf/OPP

A jackknifed tractor-trailer is seen on Highway 427 at Highway 409 Tuesday afternoon. The driver told the OPP that the big rig began to shake as he drove straight ahead and then just folded up like a scarf.

Heavy lift to put trailer back on its wheels/OPP

City News reports on plus-women who say they have been kicked off Instagram for no apparent reason except perhaps that they don’t have the designer’s notion of the perfect female body. The story talks about the company’s algorithm. But of course, that’s created humans isn’t it. Remember GIGO?

5G fun for hockey jocks

It’s being reported that TSN and Bell are bringing a new 5G immersive viewing experience to Toronto on April 15 during coverage of the Toronto Maple Leafs game against the Winnipeg Jets. The new 5G View feature, which is available on iOS and Android on the TSN app, will let fans control how they view different angles of the game on their smartphones. Read more at MobileSyrup

Vaccine milestone as 10 million doses delivered

The Toronto Real Estate Board says Tuesday that home prices in the City continued to climb in March while sales were almost double that of the same month a year earlier. Sales in the area reached a record 15,652 last month, up 97 percent from 7,945 during the same time last year. TREB says the sales growth was so dramatic because it compares with March 2020, when the first economic effects of the pandemic took hold and both buyers and sellers were wary of the market.

Tom Gibney/CFTO News

Tom Gibney, 84, the long-time anchor of CFTO-TV News has died. Mr. Gibney was a native of Yorkton, Saskatchewan and worked at CFTO from 1973 until 2007, retiring when the news department was known as CTV Toronto. Wikipedia

Former @CTVToronto anchor Tom Gibney has died aged 84 https://t.co/wuAxwHfDlo pic.twitter.com/oKrOnrrp23

— CTV Toronto (@CTVToronto) April 6, 2021