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You will have seen perhaps the raw and exuberant joy generated by the most recent $40 million Lotto Max outcome. The energy and pure spontaneity of Maria Carreiros is very special. You can take a look at the CBC video of it on this page. In the midst of it, her daughter breaks down in tears and says what of all of us know. “It’s so much money”. Take a look again because you won’t see a lottery winner who expresses her happiness like this for a very long time.
Toronto management committee has voted to include showers at a city hall bike station so that sweaty cyclists can emerge from their trip downtown smelling sweet. The decision follows previous approval to put showers in a bike station to be built at Union Station. Of course, not all cyclists will be able to use the showers even if they want to. There will not be enough. In fact, it is an open question whether anyone will use them. It depends how many people like the idea of showering in a municipal parking garage. (You summon up your images, we’ll summon up ours). Beyond this, the whole thing will require the loss of 24 parking spaces which at present produce $70,000 in revenue. The total cost of the station and showers will be $1.2 million. This is being done, so far as anyone can tell, because riding a bicycle to work is an act of good. StoryThunder, lightning and light-weight hail have rolled across the South Bayview area. It didn’t last too long. The rest of the week will be mixed as well with remnants of winter still in the air. Check weather at the TWC button above. Toronto Hydro reported a number of blackouts across the city.
The minister of human resources says it would be unacceptable for the Royal Bank of Canada to bring workers from India into the country to take the jobs of people now doing them. The minister, Diane Finley (inset left) was commenting on a CBC story in which RBC tech employee Dave Moreau (inset right) told the program Go Public that the bank has served termination notices on 45 employees. In the meantime, the same employees are training the new arrivals to do the jobs the old employees are required to leave, the CBC says. “If true, this situation is unacceptable,” said Ms Finley. The employees will be let go after they train workers supplied by iGate Corp, an IT offshore specialist based in Fremont California. The new employees will do the same work as those to be laid off. Just how the foreign employees are documented to work in Canada and in effect take the jobs of citizens isn’t clear although the bank told the CBC that the workers were working legally. Report.
This pair of Sphynx cats exhibit what some might say is the unlovely quality of most of the cats strutting through the Bucharest Cat Show this weekend. As the Mailonline complains: “Their beauty must be on the inside! Some of the world’s most miserable looking cats enter competition to find most attractive feline” All sorts of hairless cats with enormous ears made their owners proud at the Romanian cat show however. Of all the hopefuls at the international feline beauty competition the Mailonline says the most unfortunate-looking breed were the Canadian Sphynx cats (not those shown) but their owners still thought they were in with a winning chance. More than 200 cats of varying breeds sharpened their claws for the competition, but it was a distinctly mixed bag of cuddliness and ugliness. Mailonline pictures