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The City will do maintenance on the Allen Road this weekend from Friday at 11 p.m. until Monday at 5 a.m. The closure will extend the entire length of the roadway from Sheppard Ave. to Eglinton Ave.

The Ministry of Health reports 783 new cases of C-19 cases Thursday for the 24-hour period ending at midnight. There were 239 new cases in Toronto, 136 new cases in Peel, 127 in York Region and 89 in Ottawa. Ontario reported 721 cases on Wednesday, 746 on Tuesday and 807 on Thanksgiving Monday. Health care staff processed 39,961 test results in the same period. Thursday’s count puts the four average of cases at 764

St. Mary Catholic Secondary School in Pickering is demanding students return their yearbooks after it was learned that someone replaced a graduation message with a racial slur. The school says it is intent on finding out who did this. Durham Police are said to be investigating what happened. The target of the phony message, Joshua Telemaque, 18, has been honoured by friends and given a scholarship by the Pinball Clemons Foundation.

Fire personnel catch a breath at scene of basement apartment fire/Bulldog

Burned out basement unit at St. Clair and Mt. Pleasant/Bulldog

It’s garage day and this truck has to back down St. Clair from Welland Ave. because of fire/Bulldog

Traffic on Glenrose Ave/Bulldog

fire trucks across Mt. Pleasant Rd/Bulldog

A single-alarm fire has gutted a basement apartment in the old Mount Pleasant Apartments on the southeast corner of Mt. Pleasant Rd. and St. Clair Ave. Wednesday afternoon. No one was injured in the fire and investigators are probing the cause. Traffic in Moore Park was snarled for more than an hour.

Mayor Tory has posted Instagram news about a plan to use a driverless shuttle called Olli to ferry residents of the remote West Rouge neighbourhood in Scarborough to the GO Transit station. The post says the scheme is a trial planned for Spring 2021. The little shuttle has been in service in the US for a while.

Sanctuary updates underway

New floor, ceiling in gym

New kitchen was overdue

Leaside United Church is a lively 90 years old but the need for a general fix-up has been apparent for a while. It’s underway now and the “renovation team” has provided an update. Among the additions are new front steps and a new gym floor. Graham Lute of the team says the upgrades are substantial. They include landscaping, new gathering and welcome areas, AV sound systems, lighting for concerts and not one but two new kitchens.

Evidence of fierce fire on Dalewood Drive, Malton/Global News

Seven people were treated Tuesday after a fierce fire ripped through the second floor of a home on Daslewood Drive in Malton. It appears that everyone survived. A spokesperson for Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services said when crews arrived at the scene, there was a “substantial amount of fire” and a “very distraught” person hanging out of a second-floor window. Global News

Mississauga Fire Platoon Chief Daniel Boyer giving an update to media. A total of 2 occupants, 4 police officers and one firefighter were transported to hospital as a precautionary measure. One occupant is listed in serious but stable condition. pic.twitter.com/e5PUk58AoN

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A group of students from Carleton University in Ottawa has won a competition to design a zero-emissions car. Wow. How’s that work? Then, a Utah man manages to frighten off a panther stalking him to protect her cubs. Below that, it’s the iPhone 12. Is it all just looks? Lastly, the touching reunion of a Canadian woman and her fiance separated by C-19 travels bans.

The government will extend grants of as much as $300 million to restaurants and small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. These businesses have had receipts shredded by the unprecedented closures brought about by C-19. The money can be used to help offset fixed costs such as hydro bills and property taxes. The announcement was made by a rather-tired-looking Premier Ford. He and all ministers along with civil servants and health workers are working long days. Other announcements are seen in the clips below. He asks consumers and suppliers to think of “mom and pop” businesses to sustain the economy.

Eternal Canada Geese looking fatter than ever/Bulldog

The eternal Canada Goose continues to find a home in and around Leaside. This flock was feeding Tuesday outside the Loblaws on Redway Rd. They seemed fat and sassy. Some may remember the geese haven in front of the old steam engine repair building (now Longo’s) on Laird Dr in 2010. Developer solicits tenants on Laird where geese play in mud

Johnson & Johnson has halted clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine after a participant fell ill, the second time that a front-runner developer has paused testing in the race to create a viable immunization against the virus. The participant’s illness is being evaluated, the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based company said late Monday, adding that it would share information after further investigation. British drugmaker AstraZeneca last month temporarily stopped tests of its own vaccine candidate after a trial participant fell ill. That study has resumed in a number of countries but remains halted in the US. BNN