An all-day search on Facebook and elsewhere has found the owner of this curly pooch. He was found near Vanderhoof and Brencliffe on Thursday. FB.
Here’s a very compelling video that seems to expose cheating by the Houston Astros against the L.A. Dodgers at the 2017 World Series. The allegation is that a camera was sending pictures of signals between the Dodgers catcher and pitcher straight into the Houston dugout. Listen to the “bang, bang” signal for a changeup.
Ontario is starting to merge the province’s major health agencies such as Cancer Care Ontario and eHealth under one umbrella and firing the CEOs of nine Local Health Integration Networks. Those CEOs will receive a total of $3 million in severance. The province’s 14 LHINs and six health agencies will be consolidated into a new super agency called Ontario Health for an estimated $350 million a year in savings.
December 2 transfer
As a preliminary step in the process, Health Minister Christine Elliott announced today that five of those six agencies will transfer to Ontario Health as of December 2. Among the local health units being merged are Cancer Care Ontario, Health Quality Ontario, eHealth Ontario, Trillium Gift of Life Network, Health Shared Services Ontario, HealthForceOntario Marketing and Recruitment Agency
The re-making of the corner of Yonge and St. Clair by Slate Asset Management goes on with a four-floor lowering (48 to 44) of the development called One Delisle. It shows a tower made of elongated hexagonal modules pieced together in a honeycomb pattern which, as noted by Urban Toronto, is unlike any other building in Toronto The story Tuesday notes public meetings held earlier this year led by Councillor Josh Matlow’s Working Group and City Staff. They resulted in a lower height as noted. This is all about the reality of the automatic precedent whereby a building of 48 stories results in dozens of others all justified by the first.
Here we go with another Video Wheel. First up, a CBC report on the many people who still want Don Cherry on Hockey Night In Canada even though he is a combative, know-it-all who frequently offends racial, gender, political and social convention. He is still loved. Then, a solid wrap up of Micheal Therieault’s testimony at his trial on the beating of Dafonte Miller. Below that, doctors are sounding the alarm about the growing ineffectiveness of many anti-biotics. They say it is a lot more important than the environment. Finally, a man who loves his Trabant, a vehicle widely demeaned as the worst car in history. It was made by the German Communists in the 1950s. Ugh.
Every now and then it seems as if you’ve seen and heard it all.
The Cenotaph at Old City Hall was vandalized overnight. The words “Ye broke faith” were scrawled on the monument. The words are reminiscent of the World War I poem In Flanders Fields written by Canadian medical officer John McCrae. The poem became an anthem to the dead in that war and others. It inspired the use of the poppy as a form of remembrance. Police are investigating. Part of In Flanders Fields reads:
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Fire has damaged the home at 18 Keewatin Ave. just east of Yonge St. early Tuesday. Flames broke through the roof of the three-storey stucco home as fire crews arrived shortly after 6 a.m. They rang a second and third alarm. No injuries have been reported. The TFS said the fire started at the rear of the residence and worked its way to the front.
Mystery writer Peter Robinson will be at the Sleuth of Baker Street book store at 907 Millwood Rd. on Tuesday (November 12) from 6 to 8 p.m. to sign copies of his latest Inspector Banks novel Many Rivers to Cross. Previously on Peter Robinson
Don Cherry has been fired from his role at Coach’s Corner on Sportsnet over his comments about immigrants who don’t wear the Remembrance Day poppy. Cherry targeted immigrants in his hometown of Mississauga. “You people … you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple of bucks for a poppy or something like that,” Cherry said, with Coach’s Corner co-host Ron McLean looking on. “These guys paid for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada, these guys paid the biggest price.” Cherry is 85. He helped create the concept of Coach’s Corner at the CBC 37 years ago.
Cherry unrepentant
Cherry told Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun that he is untroubled by the dismissal. “I have just learned I’ve been fired by Sportsnet for comments made on Coach’s Corner Nov. 9,” Cherry told the Sun writer in a phone interview. “No problem.” Cherry added: “I know what I said and I meant it. Everybody in Canada should wear a poppy to honour our fallen soldiers.” He said his words were not racial or bigoted but patriotic and respectful of our troops. Sportsnet story.
Police have named two people, a man and a woman, found October 26 at about 12:30 noon in an apartment at 141 Davisville Ave. at Pailton Crescent. A release states that Bethlehem Geleta, 22, of Toronto had been strangled. The man, Aboma Daba, 30, of Toronto, was suffering from what is described as trauma. They were both pronounced dead at hospital. The deaths are not being treated as suspicious and there are no outstanding suspects.
