Reporter Joanna Lavoie updates the hard battle fought by the Pirovolakis family as they raise funds for an experimental therapy to stop, or cure, their toddler son’s rare disease. It is spastic paraplegia type 50 known to observant Leaside and East York residents as SPG50. Lawn signs urging people to help cure the affliction are seen everywhere. Some $3 million is needed with about one million already raised.
Reporter Tina Yazdani talks about three separate fatal fires in the region over the past 24 hours.
The Queen has agreed that Harry and Meghan will step back from royal duties and split their time between the UK and Canada. “Although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working Members of the Royal Family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of my family,” she said in a statement.
The Quack is Back! In honour of #NationalRubberDuckyDay and the 10th anniversary of our festival, we are happy to announce the return of the World's Largest Rubber Duck! Visit the #TOwaterfront June 19-21 to see the 61ft tall, 30,000lb Duck! Visit https://t.co/9JoUXrZr4H 🐥 pic.twitter.com/KuGdfguzdZ
— Toronto Waterfront Festival (@TOwaterfest) January 13, 2020
The Redpath Waterfront Festival, presented by Billy Bishop Airport, today announced the return of the World’s Largest Rubber Duck to Toronto’s Waterfront. The festival is bringing back Mama Duck, who is six stories tall and weighs 30,000 pounds, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the festival, which this year is taking place June 19-21, 2020.
In 2017, the World’s Largest Rubber Duck made a splash in Toronto when it floated in to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary at the waterfront festival. Drawn to the Duck, more than 750,000 people attended the three-day celebration and the festival generated an estimated $7.6 million in economic impact for the city of Toronto. Press Release. towaterfrontfest.com. 2017 appearance in Toronto.
A stolen tractor-trailer sped into the intersection of Eglinton Ave. and Mavis Rd. in Mississauga early Monday hitting a sedan and an SUV. The truck driver is now dead and the other drivers are said to be in serious condition. Police say the tractor-trailer was heading east on Eglinton through the intersection at high speed when it slammed into the sedan, which was pushed into the path of an SUV. The truck rolled into the gas station on the corner and demolished the large Esso sign. Other photos of the scene are on Twitter
The UK tabloid Daily Mail has been haunting Moore Park in hope of finding a story about Meghan Markle’s friends, Jessica and Ben Mulroney. Monday it has a spread of photos showing the two coming and going from their home. Mr. Mulroney is seen slipping on ice near his car. Jessica Mulroney is a close friend of the duchess. The story says she was in British Columbia until recently helping to care for Prince Archie while Meghan returned to London where she and Harry announced their go-it-alone plan.
A false emergency alert saying there had been a “nuclear incident” as the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station appears to have been the result of a human error. Reports say the emergency alert system was being tested Sunday morning when an actual warning was sent out by mistake. CP24 says the alert sent people “across the region into panic” but City News found some locals who yawned
CPC convention at Congress Centre June 27
The Conservative Party of Canada will elect its next leader at a convention on June 27 at the Toronto Congress Centre downtown. To vote in the election, members will have to sign up by April 17. Candidates have just over two months to pull together $300,000 and get 3,000 signatures in order to have their names on the ballot
Hummer name to be used on an electric pickup truck
General Motors will use the Hummer name on an electric pickup truck to be revealed in a commercial on the Super Bowl in February, a source familiar with the plan confirmed to CNN Business. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the story Friday, says the company has signed on basketball star LeBron James to help.
Meghan Markle is in Canada, almost certainly Toronto, as Her Majesty has called in her grandsons to plot strategy. Harry and Megan shocked the Queen by announcing out of nowhere on Wednesday that they will, in effect, go their own way. It isn’t clear just what they mean by that but a breakaway can be seen as weakening the monarchy. Meghan will apparently participate in the meeting by phone. It is set for Monday.
Flooding continues to keep Bayview Ave. closed south of Pottery Rd. Sunday after an onslaught of rain seldom seen in mid-winter. The Don Valley Parkway at the Bayview-Bloor ramp was closed Saturday just after 7:30 p.m. Leaside Community photo and discussion
Oh boy 😖 #ONStorm pic.twitter.com/4dVXspZOmO
— SBayview (@SBayview) January 11, 2020
Issued at 3.41 p.m. ET: Rainfall, combined with melting snow, is expected. The frozen ground has a reduced ability to absorb this rainfall. Rain will continue into this evening with total rainfall amounts of 40 to 60 mm expected by midnight. Since the ground is frozen, the winter rainfall warning criterion of 25 mm in 24 hours is being met. For information concerning flooding, please consult your local conservation authority or Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry district office. The rain will change over to freezing rain in most beginning later this evening as temperatures dip to near the zero degree mark.
Freezing rain this evening
Freezing rain warnings are in effect for areas just north and east of Toronto, and may be extended into areas from Toronto and west tonight as needed. Brisk west winds gusting to 60 km/h will herald the end of the precipitation Sunday morning.
All these annoying people who don’t want to be run by the Beijing Communists. Tiny little Taiwan has done it again by re-electing Tsai Ing-wen as its president for the next four years. Now, says Bloomberg News, China needs to learn to live with it. It can double down on hostility, or try some pragmatic steps that set up the long-term prospect of living together amicably, rather than pushing formulas for unification that Taiwanese won’t accept. Hear her victory address with English translation.
