As best we get it, Apple’s Facetime app will malfunction during group calls. It can deliver someone’s audio to the phone party even if they didn’t join it. Shocking? Maybe to some but to others it’s just the scheme of things. Yes, it’s about us, not the phone. Humans conceived it, built it and permitted a failure. It’s been known to happen. Many like to call it a glitch to hide the fact that it’s just garbage in, garbage out.
And it might not be so bad if it weren’t so cold. We’re in the freezer until Saturday when it will warm up to minus 1, three on Sunday and a sweltering 4C on Monday. Weather Network
A recovering alcoholic, David Stephen Young, who disrupted a WestJet flight from Calgary to London earlier this month has been ordered to pay the airline $21,000 for the cost fuel it had to dump to make a return landing at Calgary to throw him off the plane. The UK man was told he could not use the washroom during turbulence but he did so anyway and later became abusive with crew and passengers.
As a public safety alert, police have released information about two women who entered a University Ave. hospital in December and stole a coat and purse containing credit cards and debit cards from a waiting room. They then attended retail stores and used the cards to pay for multiple purchases. If you know these two, call 52 Division at 416-808-5200.
A woman, as yet unnamed, has been charged with dangerous driving after she sped up the walkway to the Courtice Community Centre, smashed through the front doors of the building and into the swimming pool. This occurred at 8.40 a.m. Friday. There is no explanation as yet for why the accused, 36, did this. Courtice is a small community between Oshawa and Whitby.
Upper left, there is much-deserved satisfaction among organizers of the Leaside Ladies Night Out last week. The evening raised $7,500, a sum that ensures the The Neighborhood Organization can help as many as six Thorncliffe Park women learn about and establish a business, develop better sewing skills and provide supplies needed to run their businesses independently. Well done all. At right, a reminder of that epic local tradition known as the Leaside Selection Invitational Tournament. It is a thrilling time for hundreds of kids and great fun to watch. Drop in over the weekend, grab a bite to eat from Andy Elder’s concession in the William Room and watch the action. Below that, are reminders of the East York Town Centre Sidewalk Sale now underway and the Davisville Public School Kindergarten Information Night, tonight at 6.30.
Members posting to Leaside Community Tuesday warning of the theft of shovels from front porches. One post from near Rumsey Road and Crofton Road says the perpetrator was caught on camera.
The City says road crews are at work non-stop to clear both arteries and side streets from the overnight snowfall. The prediction of 15 to 20 cm seems to have been accurate. Residents will face bitterly cold weather at least until Sunday they tried to dig out and move around. Weather Network Toronto snow plow map shows where they are located
Monday drive home is shaping up as an epic ordeal. Reports suggest traffic badly slowed or stopped on most arteries. Bayview Ave northbound north of Moore is mostly halted. The City tweeted earlier that based on forecast accumulation, it expected plowing operations might commence between 5 and 7 p.m. and will continue overnight. It advised those on the roads to stay clear of the plows. This enables them to more quickly and efficiently clear the roads. Don’t pass in between plows. Good advice.
#snowTO Bayview & Millwood #leaside #davisvillevillage #toronto pic.twitter.com/yU3xM9EiGb
— SBayview (@SBayview) January 28, 2019
The appalling “honour killing” of Jassi Sidhu will see a day of reckoning in a Punjabi court but there are still those who fear Indian justice is not up to the job. Jassi’s Canadian-naturalized aunt and uncle are on trial there for hiring her killers because she disgraced them in her choice of a husband. Then, US Democrats are jittery at the prospect of Starbucks former chairman Howard Schultz running as an independent. Conventional political wisdom suggests that he would split the anti-Trump vote and ensure a Republican victory in 2020. Below that, a gripping 2017 interview with a flight attendant who figured out that one of her passengers was in trouble. The young woman was in the hands of a human trafficker. Fascinating. And finally, as they would no doubt tell you at Bagel House, bagels are supposed to be hard and chewy not soft and doughy. An interesting New York report on the truth of this food rule.
Snow is expected Monday over Midtown and Toronto. There may be as much as five cm before bedtime with another 15 or 20 oveernight and Tuesday morning.
