The semi-annual Park and Bark Show at the corner of Yonge St. and Millwood Rd. Saturday was well attended. The event is a series of booths for businesses selling dog accessories and food as well as unrelated firms wishing to solicit the dog set. There are always many fine dogs to be seen.
It’s a funny thing about Vladimir Putin’s annual exhibition match against former Russian NHL players. He always wins. It was the same Friday when Mr. Putin, 66, scored 8 (or maybe ten) goals. During a victory lap (because this about Russia having a macho leader not hockey) the president ran into carpet on the ice and fell on his face. He got up quickly and did not seem to have suffered any injury.
No winning ticket was sold for the $12 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on May 14 will be approximately $17 million.
A Red Deer, Alberta couple, Pam and Taylor Armstrong, have welcomed home their third set of fraternal twins. It is a happy occurrence calculated to take place merely once every 500,000 times. Pam, a former delivery nurse, and Taylor, a middle school teacher, have moved to a larger house to accommodate their family of eight. The newborns, Maverick and Blakely, were born April 20. slightly early at 37 weeks at Red Deer Regional Hospital. Their brother and sisters were eagerly waiting. They are Brynlee and Adileigh, 5, and Parker and Emery, 9. Parker was glad to see a brother in the crowd. The family says jokingly that he had threatened to move to an aunt and uncle with three boys if the newcomers were both girls. Pam says the four older siblings are “absolutely thrilled” to help out with the new babies. The five-year-old sisters seem especially keen at playing with the newborns. Red Deer Advocate
Saturday will be pleasant enough for the many outdoor events this weekend. Temps of 13 and 10 are predicted for the two days. There’s Mayfair, Park and Bark, the Awesome Sale and the Leaside Garden Society Sale in Trace Manes Park. The Mother’s Day balloons (upper left) at Longo’s on Laird Drive look like fun. We especially liked Mabel’s Fables reminder about wealth versus a loving mother:
Richer than I you can never be
I had a mother who read to me
Family, friends and the hockey world bid farewell to Red Kelly Friday morning at a funeral mass at Holy Rosary Catholic Church at St. Clair Ave. and Tweedsmuir Ave. .The eight-time Stanley Cup champion, who played 20 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs, died last week at age 91. Leonard Patrick Kelly started his hockey career as a defenceman, but switched to centre after getting traded to Toronto. Kelly was Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1969 and was elected as a member of Parliament in Toronto twice in the 1960s while he was playing for the Leafs. He was a member of the franchise’s last team to raise the Stanley Cup in 1967. The native of Simcoe died on May 2 exactly 52 years to the day of that victory. Honorary pallbearers at the funeral included Frank Mahovlich, Darryl Sittler, Lanny McDonald, Bob Baun, Dick Duff, Ron Ellis, Dave Keon, Eddie Shack and Jim Gregory. Leafs president Brendan Shanahan, general manager Kyle Dubas, Detroit GM Steve Yzerman, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and former Toronto captain Wendel Clark were also in attendance. Red Kelly is survived by Andra, his wife of 60 years, their four children and eight grandchildren.
The Ontario Government will conduct a two-year pilot program on sections of four-lane highway to see if the maximum speed should be increased to 110 km/h. Highway 402 from London to Sarnia, the QEW from St. Catharines to Hamilton, and Highway 417 from Ottawa to the Ontario-Quebec Border will soon see new signs. Speeds will be increased to 110 km/h starting in September. A speed limit of 120 km/h already exists on one BC highway and the limit is 110 in parts of Manitoba. Speed limits of 120 km/h are common in Europe.
It was a long time ago but veterans (and others no doubt) wish that the government could tell the difference between members of the First Canadian Army and the German enemy in WWII. Video released by the Veterans Affairs Department Wednesday to commemorate Victory in Europe (VE) Day featured German troops prominently off the top. Then we see some Canadians. The sequence seems to have confused even the CBC reporter talking about the furore. Put it down to the passage of time.
A young driver, 16, is dead and two others, also 16, have what are called minor injuries after this luxury car slammed into a utility pole on Brimley Rd. near McNicholl Ave. in wet weather early Friday. The young man behind the wheel appears to have lost control of the Mercedes, says 680 News reporter Carl Hantske from the scene.
@tdsb_LeasideHS & @NorthleaTDSB & Leaside in general heads up: crews working on a (large?) sink hole and Eglinton was closed right at high school (Hanna&Bessborough). Traffic is pretty crazy out there: busy, but people also driving rather unsafe. Be careful & patient out there!
— Wilmar Kortleever (@WKortleever) May 10, 2019
@JayeRobinson @JohnTory terrible and irresponsible planning to reroute and detour TTC buses along Rumsey Rd in front of Northlea EMS this AM to avoid construction on Eglinton pic.twitter.com/5zhDYnmHQ4
— Chris J Martin (@247sportsguy) May 10, 2019
St. Clair Ave was closed in the westbound lane between Vaughan Rd and Bathurst St. Thursday night when this tractor-trailer was unable to negotiate a turn onto St. Clair. As the sad history of the St. Clair streetcar right-of-way has told us, there is precious little room for anything but the raised concrete platform carrying the tracks. It gives fire and emergency personnel nightmares but they’re not permitted to complain out loud.
The media blog written by Steve Faguy, reports that staff at CTV News departments across the country were called into mandatory meetings on Thursday and told that they have to carry a camera as well as tell a story. “I don’t have specifics or numbers (I’ve asked CTV News for comment), but the headline is that journalists will be transformed into “videojournalists” who do not only their own reporting but also their own camerawork, editing and even writing for the web,” says Faguy. “As a result, editors and cameramen will be offered buyout packages or laid off. Layoff notices have been issued in Montreal and Toronto, I’m told, but not everywhere. In Montreal, 15 jobs are being cut and an unspecified number of online jobs added.
UNION CRIES POOR FOR BELL MEDIA
“CTV News already employs some videojournalists (there are four at CTV Montreal, all of them young), and they’re used at other networks as well, notably Citytv, which relies almost exclusively on them. “Today’s announcement from CTV of its shift to ‘digital-first’ airing of local news stories on the Internet was inevitable,” said Unifor National President Jerry Dias. “Retooling local news for digital is necessary and, hopefully, a successful business plan because local TV is being starved for advertising revenues and anything that brings in a bigger audience and more ad revenue is welcome.” Dias cautioned Bell Media of its responsibility to guide news staff through the technological change — Peter Rehak’s Media Matters.
