You have to wonder how much ill-will Apple has bought with its decision to create an entirely new connector for the iPhone 5. Many commentators say the new connector leads to a mushrooming bill if you want to buy accessories for the IPhone. Of course, if you run the world, who cares about ill-will. ZD Net
Bayview firms commit to Bayview Buckets
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The response to the adopt-a-tree program known as Bayview Buckets has had a very solid response from merchants. The program applies to the west side of Bayview between Hillsdale Ave. and Davisville Ave. Businesses commit to make sure the street trees get at least three buckets of water a week. Here are the public spirited people giving a hand: Alex Farm • The Big Stretch Yoga Centre • BMO Financial Group • Bonnie Byford Real Estate Ltd. Brokerage • Epi Breads • Hollywood Gelato • Horticultural Design Inc. • Karmasutra Restaurant & Wine Bar • L’Avenue Bistro • Leaside Animal Clinic • McSorleys’s Wonderful Saloon & Grill • Originals Bar • Patisserie La Cigogne • RBC Royal Bank • Stainton, Murray and Lam Barristers, Solicitors & Notaries • Dr. Stephen Simpson DDS • Teaopia • Tribute Communities • valu-mart • Verdi Restaurant • Vizio Eyewear and Sunglasses • California Roll • Lemon Grass • Bagel House • Baskin Robbins
FLASH FROM THE PAST: Alleve commercial shot on Astor Ave.
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Take moment to whiz back to 2012 when this was the scnee on Astor Avenue. Soft Citizen Productions is at work in Leaside again doing a commercial for Alleve. This time they’re at 8 Astor Avenue. Actually, the trucks and props and barbecue (inset) are all over the place, so we guess the neighbors are onside. The snapshots above show No 8 with artificial light streaming through the hallway window. They were shooting inside. Outside, the suitably named fictitious delivery company called Overnight Express is standing by. Overnight Express — Overnight Relief, we’re sure you get it. All of this during rush hour Wednesday. Bessborough Studio takes an Alleve.
Write Impressions freshens up, Smile closes
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They were freshening up the front of Write Impressions today at the corner of South Bayview and Millwod Rd. It’s been a few years now and the owners clearly felt it was time for a coat of paint. Looks good. Next door at Smile, the little Bell cellular franchisee, things haven’t been going so well. Yesterday we noted things coming out of the shop and today it’s quiet at Smile. Sorry to see them leave.
Truck bed raised, slamming into QEW bridge
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A woman has been seriously injured in a crash that began with the collision of a extended dump truck (similar the one inset ) slamming into the Lundy’s Lane overpass on the QEW near Welland. The box on the truck was apparently raised as the driver took his truck under the bridge. There’s no explanation as to why the bed was raised. A woman following behind the dump truck drove into the box.
“Muslim Rage” article in Time evokes ridicule
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Fairly predictable reaction to media stories about so-called Muslim Rage. That new standard for what people think, the online commentator, says it’s silly. One Tweet to Time magazine said: Memo to those few violent MidEast protesters, this is how you fight Islamophobia. You make fun of it. #MuslimRage. Another said: When I wear a white hijab to a TV interview with a white backdrop. #floatingHead #MuslimRage CNN
All about families, households and status 2011
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Anne Milan, a sociologist with Statiastics Canada, presents a national overview of families, households and marital status data, 2011 Census. The Census was released today and has lots of interesting stuff. There are 9,389,700 “census families” consisting of married or common-law couples, or single parents in 2011, Same-sex marriage nearly tripled between 2006 and 2011 as same-sex couples grew by 42.4 per cent. Same-sex common-law couples grew 15 per cent, compared with 13.8 per cent for opposite-sex common-law couples. Common-law couples increased 13.9 per cent between 2006 and 2011, compared with 3.1 per cent for married couples over the same time period. Single fathers grew by 16.2 per cent, compared with six per cent for single mothers, as lone-parent families grew eight per cent since 2006. Single mothers still comprise 80 per cent of single-parent families. Stepfamilies, counted for the first time in 2011, comprised 12.6 per cent of Canada’s 3.7 million couples with children. Nearly 60 per cent were “simple” stepfamilies — families in which the children are the biological or adopted offspring of only one parent. The number of couples without children at home (44.5 per cent) continued to outpace those couples with kids living at home (39.2 per cent).
79-year-old guy sprints up timber pole
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Competitors sprint up 25 metre poles at the world pole climbing championships in Warwickshire, England. . Report by Katie Lamborn of ITN.
52% of us “indifferent” to NHL lockout: Survey
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Professional hockey is apparently not quite as necessary to our national life as many might have thought. A survey by NRG Research indicates that 52 percent of those surveyed said it is not important to them whether the NHL Players Association reaches an agreement so the hockey season can resume. The survey includes the responses of 1,001 individuals drawn from each of Canada’s seven hockey cities. That means, maybe, that 48 percent are concerned or somewhat concerned about the lack of NHL action. Montreal Gazette
More on the movie shot partly on Airdrie Road
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Those who care about Kick Ass 2 care a lot Scenes were being filmed on Airdrie Road yesterday. MailOnline has interesting pictures of the female star Choe Moretz in Toronto reprising her role in the original Kick Ass movie. Check out her purple jumpsuit and wig. Now that’s the way to fight crime. MailOnline
Wednesday set to be sunny with cloudy periods
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It’s been a sloppy kind of day. But the rain is forecast to taper off tonight with tomorrow set to be sunny with cloudy periods.
Jaye Robinson on Toronto mission to Chicago
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The City’s business development mission to Chicago, Team Toronto, is on its way. The mission is led by political and business leaders — Mayor Ford and a number of Council members including Jaye Robinson, Councillor for Don Valley West (Ward 25). Business notables on the trip include George Cohon, founder of McDonald’s Canada who is the Mission Co-Chair, Robert Deluce, president of Porter Airline, Co-Chair, Wayne Barwise, of Cadillac Fairview,Clare Copeland, Chairman of Toronto Hydro, Paul Deegan of BMO Financial Group, Betty K. DeVita, President, MasterCard, Mike Harris, Former Premier of Ontario, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, Elizabeth Geleff, Principal, Phillips Properties, Mary Gendron, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Celestica, E. M. Blake Hutcheson, President and CEO, Oxford Properties Group Ralph Lean, Partner, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, Ian MacEachern, Vice-President, Government and Stakeholder Relations, OMERS Administration Corporation. A complete list is in the Globe and Mail with an informative article. Marcus Gee, Globe and Mail