Scorching hot Monday with maybe a thunderstorm tonight

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Monday will be another scorching hot July day like so many we’ve seen already this summer. High temperatures are forecast to be 30 to 33 degrees Celsius. Humidex values near 40 are also expected. A cold front will pass through southern Ontario from west to east this afternoon and into the late evening hours bringing the possibility of thunderstorms and wind gusts of possibly 90 km/h.

Mind if I sit on your porch and scope out the place a little?

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A Leslieville family has posted a video of a Shoeless-Joe type of guy sitting on their porch. They suspect he was scoping out the place. FB

Party, party, party and get sick too in happy old Brampton

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There’s something about the huge party in Brampton Saturday night that’s utterly outrageous and completely predictable all at once.

Four fire services fight blaze in six houses in Richmond Hill

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Out of control Sunday on Weldrick Road



4-time Stanley Cup hero Eddie Shack was “The Entertainer”

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Many parts of City have not had a virus case in three weeks

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Many neighourhoods have been free of COVID-19 infections for at least three weeks

Many neighbourhoods in the City of Toronto have been free of COVID-19 for more than three weeks. Others have had only single-digit cases in the same period. But the City remains in Stage 2 until at least until the end of the month because of the continuing spread of the infection in the far west and east parts. An interactive map shows the numbers. Map (an additional link to reach map at City site is necessary).

137 cases reported in Ontario on Sunday

The Ministry of Health reports 137 new COVID-19 cases for the 24-hour period ending at midnight . Daily summaries

Sunday morning lemonade (til noon) at Glenside yard sale

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Come have some lemonade

There’s a neighbourhood yard sale Sunday morning on Glenside Ave. (two streets east of Greenwood Ave between Walpole Ave and Gerrard East). Sarah Bakuti has posted a FB notice that her kids are selling ice-cold lemonade (while it lasts) until noon. Be there.

$5 million Lotto 649 score out West in Saturday night draw

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The $5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw was won by a lottery player from the Prairies. And the draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize went to an Ontario ticket holder. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on July 29 will again be $5 million.

Bear boogie, Buffalo Jays, Tokyo ’21 and Brit fatties ad ban

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A high-definition trail camera in Oxford County, Maine has captured what we’re calling the bear boogie. That’s what it looks but as the video progresses, it’s plain this big bruiser is trying to scratch its back. Then, we’re not sure if you can get a ticket to the stadium, but the Blue Jays will be playing in Buffalo this year. The Bisons are the Jays triple-A team. Below that, efforts are underway to re-stage the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo next summer. Interesting that so many folks in the Japanese capital don’t care. Finally, no more fast-food ads on TV before 9 p.m. as the UK government declares that too many stout-hearted Brits are just plain fat.





City pledges safety staff, new cameras at Roehampton Hotel

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Roehampton Hotel when it was still the Best Western

A post to the Davisville Parents Facebook account describes the security concerns of residents now that the Roehampton Hotel, 808 Mt. Pleasant Rd., has been converted to a homeless shelter. It is said the City plans to provide additional members of the Toronto Community Housing Safety Unit in the Roehampton community area. The City has said that five additional surveillance cameras will be operational by Monday. The neighborhood of private homes, condominiums and rentals is part of the Mt. Pleasant Village BIA. It has two schools close to the Roehampton Hotel, Eglinton Junior Public School and Northern Secondary School.

Shops stopping people without masks as second wave feared

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Unmasked people turned away

Area resident Willem Klumpenhouwer has posted word of people trying to enter Hollywood Gelato without virus masks Friday night. He says the owner “stood firm and turned away some yokels.” Similar incidents are occurring all over the country as sensible people try to prevent a second wave of coronavirus infection caused by careless under-40s. Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam had a sterner than usual warning to young Canadians to stop fuelling the spread of the novel coronavirus. She delivered that pre-weekend warning because of the worrying trend of rising infections among people aged 20 to 39. This age group accounted for the highest incidence rates for COVID-19 cases in the past two weeks.

Seven-day average rising again

Dr. Tam outlined how the daily national case count, based on a seven-day average, is rising again across the country after falling earlier this summer. She said the seven-day measure is the best way to assess the trend in the number of infections. She says it stood at a high of 1,800 per day in early May, then dipped to 273 in early July, but in the last seven days the average daily count rose to 487. The 20-to-39 age group accounted for 60 percent of those cases, and one-third of them had to be hospitalized, said Tam.

Spike in virus cases assigned to careless meet-ups by young

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The Ministry of Health reports 195 new cases of COVID-19 Friday for the 24-hour period ending at midnight. It is a substantial spike over Thursday’s 103 and is assigned by many experts to careless socializing by under-40s. Others scoff and say 195 cases out of a population of 14.57 million isn’t much. And it isn’t. But it’s that kind of thinking that created a daily death toll of more than 500 a day in the US so far in July.