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Find someone else says FedEx in gutsy move

FedEx Corp. has announced it will end its U.S. air-delivery contract with Amazon.com Inc. in a bold move to focus on “serving the broader e-commerce market.” Amazon represented less than 1.3 percent of FedEx’s sales last year, according to a statement Friday by the delivery giant. The decision means that FedEx’s domestic air service will walk away from the dominant e-commerce company at a time when the rise of online shopping is fuelling record demand for parcel deliveries. Amazon’s emergence as a logistics giant has posed a costly challenge to FedEx and United Parcel Service Inc. by stepping up pressure for faster deliveries. There seems to be a feeling that Amazon was low-balling FedEx in a field where costs can explode. FreightWaves chat.

One person is gravely injured and another in stable condition after a shooting on a TTC bus in Etobicoke about 4.20 a.m. Saturday near Bloor St and Islington Ave. Police say that they are looking for four suspects who witnesses observed running from the scene. northbound on Islington Avenue following the shooting. In a separate matter, a man is dead after a stabbing on Yonge St near Charles St. just after midnight. He died in hospital. This is said to have occurred near NBA celebrations but is so far not connected to it.

• Homicide #26/2019 Jarvis Street And Queen Street East, Hassan Gutale Ali

No winning ticket was sold for the $60 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. There were also six Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each up for grabs, but none were claimed. That means the jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on June 11 will be approximately $65 million, and 10 Maxmillions prizes will be offered — Canadian Press

Mute swans and cygnets at Ashbridges Bay/Colin McConnell

See other photos of this family of Mute Swans and the comments of Colin McConnell at I am a Leslievillian

The Toronto Raptors have won a thrilling game in their finals with the Golden State Warriors. Game Four of the best-of-seven series for the NBA championship finished 105-92 for Toronto. The Raptors came back in the third quarter to take the lead for the first time in the game. They never looked back. Game Five is Monday at Scotiabank Arena. SportsNet

A Leaside man has offered fellow residents who complain about their close escapes from bad drivers his secret of success for staying alive for, as he puts it, two-thirds of a century. “Here’s my secret: I figured out when I was very young that any interaction between me and a giant hunk of metal weighing several thousand pounds would not end well for me. So, I made up my mind to avoid those interactions. I guess that’s not really a secret, more of a life plan. If I’m walking and come to an intersection and can see a car coming towards me, I wait. That’s it. Not rocket science, just wait. My thinking is that any car in motion might just decide to stay in motion. So I wait until it stops. If it does, I cross. If it doesn’t, I just avoided death. And what did it cost me? About 3 seconds, maybe 4.”

Free fries

Long-shot lovelies

There seem to be a lot of weepy stories today over revelations that McDonald’s underestimated the number of three-point shots the Raptors might score this season. That’s because they agreed to give any fan free fries the day after the game. Please dry your eyes (unless it’s a crocodile boohoo). The sum unrecoverable from free fries so far is something like $5 million Canadian. That’s pocket change to the arches. But it’s a good story about trying to guess how a team will play. Tricky.  Financial Post

The owners of Passion Fruits at 1537 Bayview say the New York-based Netflix series being shot at their store this week is called Grand Army. This is no doubt what the producers said and it may be factual, but there’s nothing to be found online about Grand Army. In addition, producers are known to give their productions working titles or simply fabricate names for their own purposes. There’s speculation that Grand Army may refer to a fabled Brooklyn bar, but who knows. The term Grand Army of the Republic is an historic name created after the US Civil War by victorious veterans of that conflict. Netflix shoot eats Bayview Ave from Millwood to Fleming

Police are alerting the public to events taking place Sunday which will cause traffic congestion in certain areas.

• Toronto Challenge Run, Sunday, June 9, 2019
• Portuguese Day Parade, Sunday, June 9, 2019, Dundas Street West And Lansdowne Avenue Area

One or more arsonists set fire to cars and a tow truck at three locations in East Toronto and Scarborough early Friday. The first was a car fire at a home on Glen Ames near Kington Rd and Woodbine Ave. about 12.45. Shortly after, a fire was reported at an auto body shop on Sinnott Rd near Eglinton Ave and Birchmount Rd. As many as five vehicles parked there were gutted by fire. Then about 2.30 a.m. a third call summoned fire personnel to Bellamy Road near Eglinton and Birchmount Rd for what turned out to be a fire in a parked tow truck. Lighter fluid was found at the scene.

KITTENS THROWN FROM CAR

OPP are searching for a driver who allegedly threw kittens onto the QEW in Niagara Falls on early Friday. .Sgt. Kerry Schmit said officers have found several dead kittens on the roadway. Police believe the suspect vehicle is a red four-door Toyota, with a license plate ending in the numbers 4-6-9. The driver is described as a woman in her 40s or 50s who was wearing glasses — City News

Two young women working for the Toronto-based Youth Challenge International, 585 Dundas St. E., have been kidnapped from a golf course in the inland Ghanaian City of Kumasi. The Canadian government acknowledges the matter but says only it is working with the families. This appeared in Ghana Today:

Kidnappers within the Kumasi Metropolis in the Ashanti, have escaped with two Canadian women who are on an exchange programme in the country.

News circulation in the social media indicated one of the two Canadians name has been identified as Lauren, were forced into a vehicle at about 8:20pm just when they stepped out of their apartment at Silver Spring Avenue in Kumasi Metropolis.

The issue has raised tension in the Kumasi Metropolis, especially among foreigners as this appeared to be a new trend of business by kidnappers.

Information gathered pointed that, no demand for ransom have been made to the family of the victims or the Canadian embassy in Accra by the kidnapper.

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