For reasons well known it is hard to get ahead of the rain in April. There’s some clearing seen toward the end of next week and Saturday looks nice. But it will rain again on Sunday the 28th.
A look at national gasoline prices at Gasbuddy.com Saturday revealed the stunning penalty being paid by Vancouver residents. At 44 cents a litre it represents more than $25 a fill up for most mid-sized SUVs. The conventional response for this is “tight supply” and there’s a grain of reason in that but what’s the cause? The NDP government is just barely in power with the support of minority Green members who may think it’s all fine. Do Green Party members drive gasoline-fuelled cars? All the misery on the west coast may remind Federal Liberals that the provincial Liberals are the only known political alternative in BC. Conservatives haven’t ruled BC under that name since 1933.
No winning ticket was sold for the $25.5 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next draw on April 26 will grow to approximately $35 million
RCMP say 18 people were injured after a deck collapsed at a home in Langley, BC during a wedding-related celebration early Friday evening. The injured ranged in age from children to the elderly. Most suffered broken legs. About 100 people were attending a reception at a private home. Langley is about 30 km. southeast of Vancouver.
Auston Matthews snapped a scoreless tie in the third period as the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Friday to take a 3-2 lead in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final. CBC
The traditional Way of the Cross spectacle once again marked Good Friday activities in Toronto. It is a focus for the devout on this most holy day in the Christian calendar.
A court has handed a suburban Los Angeles couple, David and Louise Turpin, a 25 year sentence for child abuse. Their crimes are difficult to comprehend on many levels. The couple forced their 13 children, ranging in age from 2 to 29, into a life of malnutrition, imprisonment, filth and ignorance. The daughter who escaped from the ordinary-looking home in 2018 did not even know the name of the street she lived on. Many will surely ask how grown sons would not rebel at such tyranny. How did Turpin, reputedly a retired aeronautical engineer, conceive such an existence for his family? The report on the left is by CBC Friday while the video to the right is CNN breaking the story a year ago.
Men with a story this Friday begins with police constable David Chen. He is fighting back against a devastating concussion suffered when he was hit by a car. At issue is the effectiveness of the so-called PoNS brain stimulator. At centre is Jason Momoa. He’s finally shaved off his Aquaman beard, a rather scruffy growth that hasn’t been touched much since 2012. At right is Robert Kraft, the NFL mogul caught in a brothel sweep. He’s objecting that video of him in the act was taken with cameras secreted in the Day Spa pleasure palace when police created a suspicious parcel scare that cleared the place. Then they sneaked in and installed cameras. Feeling watched?
Toronto Police not be enforcing on-street parking bylaws on Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. They are:
• Pay-and-Display/Metered Areas
• Rush-Hour Routes
• Posted signs indicating Monday to Friday regulations
All other areas and parking offences will continue to be enforced. Ticketing will proceed as usual on Saturday, April 20.
It seems Ontario has been languishing in some sort of backwater when it comes to using the skills of local pharmacists to prescribe for certain conditions and ailments. Eight other provinces already permit such assistance by druggists.
You’ve got to be quick to catch the City’s A-team fixing the really big potholes like this one at Davisville Ave and Mt. Pleasant Rd. It’s been blocking traffic at the northeast corner for weeks but now the water-filled hole (seen Wednesday) is drained and being paved. Hooray. Then, upper right reveals another classic school’s-out high noon at the Bayview and Belsize Starbucks. Welcome kidlets and all others. Below that is Alice, found safe and well after slipping out into darkest Leaside earlier this week. But at centre left, a raccoon-sized drama is facing a family seeking help at how to rescue this guy from between their window and the railing of a faux balcony. Centre right, an invitation to see Unstoppable Tracy Schmitt at Leaside High School April 23. At the bottom, check out the Easter offerings and events in South Bayview. Also check the Bulldog Bulletin Board
Briefly, the government has announced that funding for post secondary institutions will shift to such criteria as the student graduation rate, experiential learning opportunities, graduate earnings, graduate employment and skills and competencies. Sounds okay so far. And in Toronto, the Overdose Prevention Society will donate $20,000 each to two supervised injection facilities that had their provincial funding cut off last month. They are St. Stephen’s Community House on Augusta Avenue and Street Health Community Nursing on Dundas Street East. In March, the provincial government announced that it would fund 15 supervised injection facilities, including six in Toronto but not six others.
