Sewer work underway in Leaside has blocked McRae Drive east of Millwood Rd. This is the latest in constricted passage across the neighbourhood.
The work is scheduled to finish this Spring. Fingers crossed.
The Toronto Fire Service has extinguished a single-alarm fire in a home near College St. and Macklem Ave in Little Portugal Monday morning. Macklem is between Dufferin St. and Gladstone Ave.
The Leaside Wildcats have posted the shining faces of Ada, Bea and Hazel, three local girls who really want to get back to playing hockey. Can’t wait to be there when they drop the puck, ladies. At the centre-right is a wild-looking bit of canine apparel previously unknown to The Bulldog. It’s an anti-coyote coat loaded with spikes and spines designed to repel the critters. On the lower left is an old TV curb alert from Raman Daya at Davisville Parents Facebook. At the bottom left is the large parking lot on Cedarvale Ave. near Stan Wadlow park which the City proposes to turn into housing for the homeless. And yes, some people would prefer otherwise. Lastly, the Queen of the Gambit herself reminds us of the lively local Facebook thread of more than 40 comments about your next streaming binge. Just try not to over-snack if it’s exciting.
A gorgeous moon known to astronomers as a Snow Moon graced Toronto’s sky Friday night and it will return Saturday if skies are clear. Two women living in Leslieville (and many others no doubt) took photos. In the picture at the left, the photographer is joined by a red-tailed hawk on the Leslie Street Spit. Facebook
A ticket holder in Ontario has won Friday night’s whopping $70 million Lotto Max jackpot. Nine of the draw’s Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each were also won, with one of those prizes being split between two lottery players. Winning Maxmillion tickets were sold in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and the Prairies.
An alert nanny, Jillian Mendoza, is being credited with saving her two wards from serious injury by pushing their stroller to safety as an SUV suddenly leaped onto the sidewalk on St. Clair Ave West at Boon Ave Wednesday. Mendoza was seriously wounded when the vehicle pinned her against the wall of a store. She is said to be in stable condition in hospital after three operations. She had her employer’s two children, two and five, out for a walk when the accident occurred. Police say a man of 82 reversed onto the sidewalk as he was about to leave a parking space.
Original’s Ale House at 1660 South Bayview Ave., a gathering place for nearly 40 years, has been put on sale by the owner for $499,000. Leasing details and other particulars
Canadian Press says Health Canada has approved the C-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca. It will become the third vaccine to be used in this country. Canada pre-ordered 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was co-developed by researchers at the University of Oxford. It will also receive up to 1.9 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine through the global vaccine-sharing initiative known as COVAX by the end of June. Two vaccines, those from Pfizer and Moderna, are already being given to patients and there is a fourth (Johnson and Johnson) and a fifth (Novavax) awaiting approval.
OPP have charged an inspector, Steve Grosjean, 62, with breach-of-trust in connection to the discovery of systematic preferential treatment of certain two truck operators. Three officers are already charged. They are PC Bindo Showan, 57, PC Simon Bridle, 53, and PC Mohammed Ali Hussain, 52. There has been a two-year investigation into alleged crimes in the tow-truck industry. Shocking towing kickback charges laid against OPP officers
This woman and her fiancé just parked on St Clair near Boon Ave. when the SUV went up on the curb and struck a woman pushing a double-stroller. Katrina describes how her fiancé’s dentist is a hero for running out to help. @680NEWS pic.twitter.com/3ZyCgbJW8J
— Mark Douglas (@DouglasCityNews) February 24, 2021
Organizers of the Canadian National Exhibition are planning on opening this August if the vaccine stars are aligned to immunize all those who want a protective injection against C-19. Few things would declare a return to the old normal better or be more welcome. The Ex was cancelled in 2020 and organizers concede that might happen again, but they’re counting on the vaccine stars to conjure up a better outcome. Let’s hope so.
But City forces closure of many events in May, June
But the City of Toronto issued a news release Wednesday extending its cancellation of in-person major events until at least July 1. This will include Canada Day events. The decision was made in consultation with the Medical Officer of Health and others. Here are a few events that will be impacted. It seems like there will be many others, including the East York Canada Day Parade.
• Toronto Marathon, half Marathon, 5k, 10k and relay (will be a virtual event)
• Sporting Life 10k (will be a virtual event)
• Canadian Music Week (will be a virtual event)
• Doors Open Toronto (cancelled)
• Juno Awards (will be a virtual event)
• Ride for Heart (will be a virtual event)
• NXNE Music Festival (will be a virtual event)
• Luminato (virtual option to be determined)
• The Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer (will be a virtual event)
• TD Toronto Jazz Festival (virtual option to be determined)
• Indigenous Arts Festival (will be a virtual event)
• Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival (will be a virtual event)
• Trans March, Dyke March & Pride Parade (will be a virtual event)
• Scarborough Canada Day Parade & Celebration (cancelled)
• Canada Day Celebrations at Mel Lastman Square (cancelled)
