Another April, another series of corporate jokes to get your attention. Above we see Swiss Chalet’s annual nod to its dipping sauce. Unlike the 2019 jape, which was sauce flavoured ice cream, bath bombs are beyond far-fetched. Check the CNET link for many more. We especially like the Blue Kazoo 100,000-piece all-blue jigsaw puzzle. Funny. CNET
The Camarro Group has proposed a relatively minor downsizing to its proposed 10-storey development at the corner of O’Connor Drive and Curity Ave. Urban Toronto
For those wondering if McDonald’s at Pape and Cosburn Aves is about to be demolished — fear not. City work permits reveal that the long-time burger haunt is being enlarged and will reopen this Spring or Summer. These days the Pape restaurant is shrouded in steel fencing. Since the loss of McDonald’s at Bayview and Eglinton, fans of the Quarter-Pounder and Filet-O-Fish have struggled to find a handy outlet.
The City said Wednesday that College St will be closed for as much as eight weeks between McCaul Street and Huron Street because a sewer dating from 1873 has collapsed. This occurred Friday. The old brick sewer has created a void/sinkhole approximately 25 feet deep and up to 20 feet in circumference under College at Beverley and St. George Sts.
JUST IN from @breanna_xcarter: A busy stretch of College Street at the St. George Street/Beverley Street intersection is closed for up to eight weeks as city crews work to repair a large sinkhole caused by a 100-year-old sewer that collapsed. https://t.co/MYOraTWbai
— Toronto Star (@TorontoStar) March 31, 2021
#CityofTO announces portion of College Street will be closed for up to eight weeks for emergency repair work. News release: https://t.co/7J1TFDcfnb pic.twitter.com/XVOeLyG2KV
— City of Toronto (@cityoftoronto) March 31, 2021
It’s unknown which ad agency or other source conceived April Fools Eve, but it has appeared in 2021 for the first time, so far as we know. April Fools fans and perpetrators will call us humourless but we go forward in good spirits to laugh at funny stuff free of public trickery. As for AF aficionados, beware of hoaxes on the way. Volkswagen got an early start.
The hoped-for freedom from C-19 restrictions seems u8nlikely this Spring as the virus continues to spread and strain hospitals. Premier Ford said Wednesday even more lockdowns may await the province.
Pzifer study shows 100% effectiveness on kids 12 to 15
Scary highway scenes from Alta snowstorm
Police and Fire services were called to an address on Mt Pleasant Rd. between Keewatin and Sherwood Aves. Wednesday morning for an apparent bomb call. There was no explosion and crews were cleared by 1 p.m.
The Canadian and Ontario governments are giving $470 million to a French vaccine maker to ensure we aren’t stuck depending on distant foreign suppliers for vaccines whenever the next global pandemic arises. Between now and 2026, Sanofi Pasteur will build a new influenza manufacturing plant on the site of the former Connaught Laboratories in North York. Sanofi is the successor to the French firm that purchased Connaught from the government in the 1980s. Officials said that when completed, the new plant will be able to produce enough “vaccine doses to support the entire Canadian population within approximately six months of the World Health Organization (WHO) identifying a pandemic influenza strain.”Handwringing over
Famous for the discovery of insulin in 1921
Since the Covid pandemic struck, there has been much handwringing over Canada’s inability to make vaccines. It has been particularly galling against Connaught’s distinguished history in the early years of the 20th Century. It is where Frederick Banting, Charles Best and J.J.R. Macleod discovered insulin in 1921.
A woman driver identified as Lisa has been interviewed by the OPP at the scene of her miraculous escape from death or serious injury on Highway 401. See it here.
The so-called Science Table — a body of 25 doctors established to advise the Ontario government — has published a report which states that the B117 C-19 variant is vastly more dangerous than reported earlier. Contrary to information from previous research, which suggested B117 might increase the prospect of death by one or two percent, the Science Table states that the variant is in fact 56 percent more likely to kill. It is a stunning statement and an easily imagined cause for alarm. The most recent Science Table report also says B117 is likely to cause a 63 percent increased risk of hospitalization, a 103 percent increased risk of intensive care unit (ICU) admission and a 56 percent increased risk of death.
Who are the Science Table physicians?
Ashleigh R. Tuite, David N. Fisman, Ayodele Odutayo, Pavlos Bobos, Vanessa Allen, Isaac I. Bogoch, Adalsteinn D. Brown, Gerald A. Evans, Anna Greenberg, Jessica Hopkins, Antonina Maltsev, Douglas G. Manuel, Allison McGeer, Andrew M. Morris, Samira Mubareka, Laveena Munshi, V. Kumar Murty, Samir N. Patel, Fahad Razak, Robert J. Reid, Beate Sander, Michael Schull, Brian Schwartz, Arthur S. Slutsky, Nathan M. Stall, Peter Jüni
A quick “grab shot” out the passenger window of a vehicle leaving Leaside Centre Monday has captured what seems to be the escalator installation at the LRT Laird Station. FB
