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Hit the bake table

Locally, St. Cuthbert’s Spring Fair is on Saturday at the old church at Bayview Ave. and St. Cuthbert’s Drive. It’s always fun and the bake table is the first stop.

Lancebotics off to Louisville/LHS

Toxic Beauty/Phyllis Ellis inset

Above we see the Leaside High gang ready to take a low-tech bus trip to Louisville and the high-tech challenge of the Vox Robotics World Championships (for robot builders). Good luck to the LHS Lancebotics and thanks to Mrs. (Helen) Panayiotou for posting. She’s the science curriculum leader at LHS. At right is a reminder to watch Toxic Beauty, a film by Leaside director Phyllis Ellis. It will be aired at HocDocs 2019.opener.

Then some Friday night fun at The Wally at 302 O’Connor Dr (at Donlands) and/or the Black Sheep Comedy lineup at Brunswick Bierworks at 24 Curity Ave.

Innstead Co-operative Housing Inc. has cancelled a six-storey mixed-use building which would have had 33 affordable housing units, one retail unit at ground level, office space on the sixth floor, and nine surface parking spots at 355-363 Coxwell Ave.

An affordable housing project has been cancelled in Leslieville because, it is said, costs doubled to something like $21 million in three years. This interesting story at Toronto.com does not specify if the increase occurred through actual price increases or a failure to plan. The project was the well-intentioned idea of Innstead Co-operative Housing Inc., a 52-property co-op based in Leslieville. The development became unsustainable when construction costs nearly doubled to $21 million in three years. Despite efforts to find a solution, the co-op was unable to come up with a plan to make ends meet and decided to halt the project.

In stores by May

The Los Angeles firm Beyond Meat Inc. has announced that its celebrated fake beef burgers that bleed like the real thing will soon be sold in Canadian supermarkets. The company also makes meatless sausages, crumbles and other products. Beyond Meat says it will sell its products at Co-op, Fresh Street Market, IGA, Loblaw, Longos, Metro, Save On Foods, Sobeys (including Freshco and Price Chopper) and Whole Foods Market stores by May. The burgers will be available in stores at the end of May, and will retail for around $7.50 per package. The Beyond Meat burgers have received apparent universal applause following their introduction at A&W restaurants last year.

• Beyond Meat announces launch of IPO

The Global News video below describes some of the ways Beyond Meat imitates the flavour and visual impact of burgers. Beet juice makes them bleed, for example. The report also offers advice on overdoing veganism, if that’s your thing. It suggests real meat is necessary for a balanced diet.

Joe (King) Krol

Won six Grey Cups, five with the Toronto Argonauts

Leaside film maker Anthony Reagan has released a new production on YouTube on behalf of the Leaside Sports Hall of Fame. The late Tom Irwin speaks of meeting LSHOF inductee and national football legend Joe Krol when he was a boy. It’s an informative and touching insight into Krol’s decent character. Pictures from the Leaside Sports Hall of Fame night.

A number of roads in and near Bracebridge are flooded and washed out and those who live near low-lying areas are being advised to take precautionary measures as water levels continue rise. Adding to the crisis mood, firefighters were required deal with a fire that destroyed a summer home and several cars on Weismuller Rd. Below, the Muskoka River is roaring with the record runoff from 2019 snow.

Victim trapped upstairs by fire/@aghosttomost Twitter

Tony Fera/@tonyfera1

Tony Fera/@tonyfera1

A person has died in a house fire on Roncesvalles Ave between Marion St. and Pearson Ave. Tuesday night. The Toronto fire service responded about 10.30 to the call. It appears that the victim was trapped upstairs by the fire. The fire marshal will investigate.

PEI election Tuesday

The Prince Edward Island Conservative Party will form a minority government in the Confederation province after taking 12 seats in the 26 seat Legislature. Dennis King is Premier-elect. The Green Party will form the Opposition with nine seats. The Liberals, which had formed the government until Tuesday, won five seats. The Greens had led in opinion polls since August credited largely to their dynamic leader Peter Bevin-Baker, a Scottish born dentist.

A meeting is scheduled for the evening of May 6 on the application to build a mid-rise condominium at 1420 Bayview Ave south of Balliol St. 8-floor condo intended for Bayview Ave. south of Balliol St.

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The two best known stock indexes in Canada and the U.S. closed at record highs on Tuesday, as the price of oil pushes higher and U.S. companies posted strong profits. The S&P/TSX Composite Index of the largest companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange closed up 93 points to 16,671. That beats the previous all-time high the index hit last week, when it headed into the long weekend at 16,612. CBC

Game 7 of the Leafs-Bruins series is likely to pretty much clear the streets Tuesday night as fans and even non-fans gather around the television. For the second straight year, the two teams have taken a series to the limit. The winner of this game (CBCSports.ca, 7 p.m. ET) will head to the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Bruins earned the right to play Game 7 at home by finishing seven points up on the Maple Leafs in the Atlantic Division, but home-ice advantage hasn’t meant much so far in the series. No team has won two in a row over the first six games; Boston would need to break that streak to advance.

Canadian Kids Lit Quiz champions from left: Gillian, Julia, Lila and Leah with Quizmaster Wayne Mills

Four Grade Seven girls at Hodgson Middle School are Canadian champions in the brainy international competition known as Kids’ Lit Quiz. For their hard work, intelligence and calm under fire, Gillian, Julia, Lila and Leah are heading to Singapore this July to compete for the Kids’ Lit world championship. Team Canada (previously the Hodgson Hawks) will compete against national teams from ten other English-speaking countries. The girls gained the right to compete in Singapore by winning the national championship held at McMaster University in Hamilton in January. Their victory was solid as they finished 9 points ahead of second place Tecumseh Elementary School from Vancouver. John T. Tuck Public School of Burlington finished third. Judges noted it was the first time in eight years that a public school has won national honours. The team will be holding an online auction from May 23 to June 2 to raise funds for the girls’ airfare to Singapore and to donate to Kids’ Lit Canada. Authors and local businesses have generously donated more than 100 items for the auction.

Wayne Mills, New Zealand educator who created Kids’ Lit Quiz

Sports of Reading

Kids Lit Quiz is the creation of Wayne Mills, a former professor at the University of Auckland. It’s first year was 1991 and since then it has seen thousands of students 10 to 13 from around the globe participate. It has been nicknamed with remarkable accuracy the Sport of Reading. Kids stand by their buzzers in teams of four to answer questions about the written works, life, times and maybe even the idiosyncracies of English language authors past and present. Kids’ Lit Quiz has spread to eleven countries where English is a universal, and usually, the first language. They are Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, United Kingdom, Canada and the US. Now Gillian, Julia, Lila and Leah are at work with Hodgson teachers Ms Diane Stewart and Mr. Evan Tarleton, determined to win in Singapore.

Team Canada (Hodgson Hawks) with Wayne Mills and teacher Ms. Diane Stewart

Calm at the buzzer

Eleven English-speaking countries

DJ and inpressionist to voice PM Trudeau appearance on The Simpsons/iHeartRadio

Toronto DJ and impressionist Lucas Meyer will voice the character of Justin Trudeau on The Simpsons. Mr. Meyers is well known in radio and media circles for his amusing imitations, most of them uncannily like the real subject. The Simpsons episode will be written by Emmy-award winning writer and Exeter, ON, native Tim Long. It deals with Simpson off-spring Lisa being mistakenly granted asylum in Canada during a family outing to Niagara Falls. The Sun says Tuesday that Long believes “there may be mention of a current scandal.” That suggests the SNC-Lavalin controversy may get some airtime. Meyer’s impressions were well-known among fellow journalists in Calgary, where he worked for local radio station, 660 News. He is now employed at Newstalk 1010.