Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s four-month-old son Archie made his first appearance on their South Africa royal tour Wednesday. Archie joined his parents in the public appearance as they met with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner for his opposition to apartheid, at his legacy foundation in Cape Town on day three of their 10-day trip.
Residents of Cameron Crescent between Donegall Dr. and Father Caulfield Park at MacNaughton Rd. were awakened by police activity overnight. There was a brief search for an apparent burglar who may have eluded police.
A pilot project that will see a slight bump in speed limits on some of Ontario’s highways will go into effect later this week, the province’s transportation minister said Tuesday. Caroline Mulroney said the new rules, meant to bring Ontario in line with some other provinces, will take effect on three stretches of highway beginning on Thursday. They include a 90-kilometre stretch of Highway 402 between London and Sarnia, 32 kilometres of the Queen Elizabeth Way between St. Catharines and Hamilton, and the 102 kilometres of Highway 417 between Ottawa and the Quebec border.
Many residents of Moore Park have received mail from an organization called Nextdoor.ca which offers them a chance to join a neigbourhood information exchange. The sealed envelopes are addressed to Moore Park Neighbour with the precise street address and postal code. The letter inside assigns the address a six-letter code (RDDTMM for example) which identifies the address to the Nextdoor organization. One resident has observed that “the infrastructure appears all about tracking people right to their dwelling. There are data sets out there you can purchase that pinpoint users by IP address but not necessarily home address, this connects those two solidly. The minute you login with the code, they have your user-specific IP address, your machine, android/apple phone and/or other pertinent information. The more specific the information, the easier it is to market to you and track your preferences.” Nextdoor Says It Will Make Tens of Millions In Revenue This Year
Gender equity is a tricky bit of quicksilver at the National Ballet where the class of 2020 is made up of far more boys than girls. And unlike almost anywhere else, that’s a good thing. Then, the charming Miss Meng and her humungous Huawei electronics empire were in court Monday. Below that, Steve Paikin and guest Erin Kelly assay the damage done to Liberal fortunes by the blackface scandal. Lastly, the Spanish are getting ready to disinter that old reprobate General Francisco Franco and put him in a less auspicious grave. Now, if only the Chinese would plant Mao Tse Tung under the grass.
Police have released security pictures of a man with a rather unique appearance who was also seen carrying a handgun on a TTC bus as it ran along Graydon Hall Drive in Don Mills Friday about 5.50 p.m. He is described as approximately 35, medium build, blond hair pulled into a hair tie on top and cut short in the back, and a long blond goatee. His arms were heavily tattooed with a flower tattoo on his left hand. He is considered armed and dangerous. If located, do not approach. Call 9-1-1 immediately.
Crews dealt with two separate industrial fires in the northwest corner of the City Monday afternoon and evening.
Twitter was alight Monday evening with dozens of pictures and videos of an enchanting double-rainbow that stretched across the Toronto sky late in the day. See them all.
Residents crowded the William Lea Room at Leaside Memorial Gardens Arena Monday night to hear and meet candidates in Don Valley West for the October 21 general election. Four of the five candidates were present. They are Liberal MP Rob Oliphant, Conservative Yvonne Robertson, New Democrat Laurel MacDowell and Ian Prittie of the People’s Party. The debate was moderated by a former president of the Leaside Property Owners Association Brian Athey. He followed the “tried and true” procedure of written questions addressed to all candidates. The Green Party candidate Amanda Kistindey was not present and from her campaign material appears to be a resident of a farm somewhere is not stated.
Amazon says it will hire people to fill more than 600 jobs at its planned Scarborough fulfillment centre. According to a news release Monday, the one million sq. ft. facility will be Amazon’s twelfth fulfillment centre in Canada, and seventh in Ontario joining others in Brampton, Mississauga, Milton, Caledon, and Ottawa. It will be built at 6351 Steeles Avenue E at Tapscott Rd. Amazon currently employs more than 4,000 full-time associates in Ontario, and an additional 1,000 employees at its two Toronto tech hub locations, states the release.
Police are carefully examining the contents of a garbage bin at a condo at 105 Harrison Gardens Blvd northeast of Highway 401 and Yonge St. Monday where the superintendent found what appears to be a human leg. Catherine McDonald of Global News is reporting that the chutes from each floor have now been taped shut and police have placed a tarpaulin tent over the bin as they continue to inspect it. CP24 says that it spoke to a woman named Mona Low, who was in the area when the discovery was made. She said she saw three men sitting near the dumpsters this morning. “One of them looked like he had been crying. And he was being consoled by a person,” she said.
The coroner is now on scene. Officers are inspecting a number of dumpsters including the black on in particular which appears to be where the possible human remains were found behind 105 Harrison Garden Blvd. People are shocked. This area rarely sees any @TorontoPolice activity pic.twitter.com/qP2baC6cX1
— Catherine McDonald (@cmcdonaldglobal) September 23, 2019
