One man has been shot Sunday afternoon near the corner of Church and Colborne Sts, south of King East. Reports on his condition are mixed but it seems his injuries are serious at the least. The location of the shooting, constructed from fragments of information seems to have been the laneway off Colborne behind a building on Church. The Google image below shows it. The view looks east to Church along Colborne.
A number of residents were scrounging for water Sunday as emergency repair of two breaks was underway at Bayview and Davisville Aves. Workmen said the job would be finished by nightfall.
Residents near Bathurst St. and Ellerslie Ave. are out of their homes on this cold Sunday as a gas leak forces evacuation. Police say they are being housed in a shelter bus. The leak occurred when a vehicle, so far unknown, struck a gas line or main. There are no injuries. No timeline is stated for repair so far. The first report is 15 minutes old at 10.20 a.m.
A tractor trailer collision with another vehicle has shut down Highway 401 in Cambridge and caused a jet fuel spill. OPP say both directions of the highway are closed between Townline Road and Highway 6 South. The crash happened around 2 a.m. Sunday, causing 50,000 liters of jet fuel to spill onto the highway. The clean-up is expected to take several hours and there is no estimated time for the highway to re-open — City News
No winning ticket was sold for the $9.3 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 jackpot. The guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in British Columbia. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Jan. 16 will be approximately $12 million.
Lots of fun here with the CBC’s Eli Glasner enjoying the lively presence (return?) of music from the 1990s. The CBC YouTube tag line asks What’s driving the latest ’90s nostalgia? but it’s just clickbait. Glasner never asks or answers it. That’s okay because we already know this revival is about the Big Wheel of Life slowly making all these Gen Y folks middle aged. Good listenng.
A man has posted video which shows a thief rummaging through a family car parked outside the home on Bessborough Dr just north or Parkhurst Blvd. Friday night. The writer says the thief went up and down the street. This occurred about 8.40 p.m. which seems extraordinarily reckless of the thief. Not much to see on the video but a cautionary post. Car was not locked.
Facebook as a corporation is accused of many infringements of privacy but in South Bayview there seem to be few things that users are not prepared to share publicly. This day witnesses a growing interaction among neighbors and a woman who is asking for help on how to escape the cigarette smoke created by the people in the semi-detached home next door. There are many sympathetic responses and one man, a general contractor, offers ideas on how to seal the home along the common perimeter. In the end however the truth is posted by another woman who says: “As long as they are on their property, there’s nothing you can do.”
Police and community members will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the ProAction Hockey League at Angela James Arena in Flemingdon Park on Sunday. Officers from 55 Division, who coach and mentor youth, have seen the program grow from 64 to 148 kids, many of whom would never have had the opportunity to play hockey because of the high cost of the ice time, equipment and league costs. ProAction Cops and Kids was founded by in 1991 by businessman John Bitove Sr. It is a non-profit agency that provides funding for programs that connect police officers with young people. Social time at 3 p.m. with the puck drop at 3:30 p.m. at the James Arena at 165 Grenoble Dr. Follow the league at Twitter @TPS55div and @TPSVicentino.
A Saudi teen who was granted asylum in Canada after fleeing from her allegedly abusive family arrived in Toronto Saturday morning. Her flight from Seoul, South Korea, landed a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his government would accept 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun as a refugee. The young woman fled her family while visiting Kuwait and flew to Bangkok, where she barricaded herself in an airport hotel and launched a Twitter campaign that drew global attention to her case. Canada should not turn Saudi teen into a ‘political football,’ says former ambassador
Watch the bomb count down, try to defuse it. Oh too bad, you got it wrong. Now you’re legless like Uncle Harry when he ran in the Boston Marathon. Is there anything to like about this toy?
There is one winning ticket for the $18.2 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw, and it was sold somewhere in Ontario. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Jan. 18 will be approximately $10 million.
