🚁 Earlier this evening … NB 404 off ramp to 16th was closed because a plane had to make an emergency landing pic.twitter.com/eQxV4ORnrA
— Jackee King (@jackee_king_) August 31, 2020
Photos of the plane crash just outside of Buttonville Airport in Markham. 404 at 16th Ave. @NEWSTALK1010 pic.twitter.com/V09Wo9S7sA
— Chris McKee (@mrmckee) August 30, 2020
A cyclist in his 20s is in critical condition after police say he fell off a cliff in an area east of the Scarborough Bluffs on Sunday afternoon. Police, fire and paramedics responded to a call for reports of a cyclist riding near the edge of cliffs near Bellamy Ravine Creek and West Hill Creek who toppled over the cliff — 680 News
Genetically modified mosquitoes may cause some people to squirm, but scientists say they are an excellent way to save people from skeeter-carried diseases. Then, the tricky business of keeping kids safe from C-19 during after-school activity. Below that, an Alberta brewer has a new beer made from wastewater. Hmm. Finally, Canada’s year of the gas pedal as drag racers face the wrath of police.
The corner of Rumsey and Hanna Rds is the site of work to install a new storm sewer. It will replace a 30s era drain that has permitted the occasional flooded basement. Here’s hoping.
York Regional Police have released the dramatic 9-1-1 call from a person on a capsized boat in Lake Simcoe. The exchange recounts how police found their way to the stricken vessel and rescued all three aboard. Listen hear.
Thieves struck early Friday to steal a 500-pound iron sculpture created by Czech-Canadian artist Lea Vivot. The sculpture, The Secret Bench of Knowledge, was in the front yard of a home at Spadina Rd. and Strathearn Blvd in Forest Hill. Police can only guess at how many perpetrators were needed to lift the work. The sculpture has many castings in Canada. Lea Vivot Wikipedia
Sad state of Toronto on Friday night
Toronto saw a sad Friday night of stabbings and shootings as the new normal of interpersonal and gang violence rolled on. Who can get used to this “normal”? There was a stabbing near O’Keefe Lane at Yonge and Dundas in which a man of 20 was wounded. Earlier three people were shot outside an apartment courtyard near Crescent Town Road and Victoria Park Avenue, north of Danforth Road. It appears the injuries were minor. And police are investigating a shooting in north Etobicoke Friday afternoon that seriously injured a man in his 20s. This occurred in the area of Steeles Avenue West and Gihon Spring Drive, just west of Kipling Avenue, around 5:53 p.m.
Police say late Saturday that a woman who knew her name but was unable to find her way home has now been reunited with family. The Scarborough woman spoke only Cantonese and although a translater was able to learn her name and talk with her, she could not give him an address. She came to the attention of police mid-morning Friday.
The government has issued a curious Friday night release saying it will introduce legislation this fall to freeze rent for some families next year. Maybe it thinks the landlords are on vacation. Municipal Affairs Minister Steve Clark’s office said the proposed rent increase for 2021 was to have been 1.5 percent. But if the government bill passes it will mean the “vast majority of families” will not see their rent increase at all next year. CBC
Concern over racism has resulted in a shutdown of playoff games in both the NHL and the NBA, at least temporarily. The shooting of a man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, triggered this interesting reaction.
Mental stress on police raised by Sun writer
Joe Warmington of the Sun has written to defend police under siege after the accidental death fall of a woman from her apartment home in High Park. Toronto Sun
Dundas to be expunged from streets, maps of Ontario?
It’s a name that’s oriented Ontarians around Toronto and all across Ontario for more than 200 years. But a petition asks that it be removed because “names and monuments should reflect our values and priorities.” CBC
Watch as a gray squirrel approaches a family and literally begs for water. They kindly let the squirrel drink its fill. This is posted to Leslieville Facebook and reveals an interesting side to the eastern Canadian indigenous squirrel. They are normally fairly shy.
The busy corner of Moore Ave. and Welland Ave. was clogged Wednesday as work continued on renovations at Moorevale Park. Park-wide changes are being made to update the tennis field house and replace a playground and wading pool (with a modern splash pad). It’s an exciting improvement to the old park and its facilities but it appears there will be disruption until summer 2021. Moorevale Park Revitalization
