The Blue Jays have hired Tampa Bay Rays bench coach Charlie Montoyo to coach the Toronto Club during its planned rebuild next season. Montoyo agreed to a three-year contract with a club option for the 2022 season. Twitter posts. SportsNet
Because of expected rain, the closure of the Gardiner Expressway planned for Friday has been put over one week and will now take place between Friday, November 2 at 11 p.m. until Monday, November 5 at 5 a.m. The Expressway will be fully closed during this period from the Don Valley Parkway/Carlaw Avenue to Highway 427/Queen Elizabeth Way.
CHUM 104.5 host Roger Ashby has announced his retirement after 50 years with the station. A release from Bell Media, owner of CHUM 104.5, says Ashby’s farewell broadcast will air live from the Sheraton Centre Toronto Grand Ballroom on Wednesday, Dec. 5 beginning at 5 a.m. ET. It will feature “a multitude of celebrity guests” and recount Ashby’s most amazing memories from his half-century on CHUM-FM. “It’s easy to get up early every morning when you love your job and the people you work with,” said Ashby. “Of course, I couldn’t have done it without the amazing Marilyn Denis. From the first moment we met, I knew she was the right person to spend my mornings with. And our success over the decades would not have happened without the dedication of our longtime listeners.” “Marilyn and Jamar will keep entertaining Torontonians every morning on CHUM 104.5, and I look forward to listening,” he continued. “I’d also like to thank my wife, Moira, and my family and friends – with whom I will be spending a lot more time, whether they like it or not!”
Two twists on your recreational high-times are offered by City News. Marijuana users say that the new government pot retailer OSC is falling flat on its face. Wait-time on the phone has been recorded at six hours and vanishing orders are common. But, there’s a nice new brew called Been A Slice now offered by the Common Good Beer Co. in Scarborough. The clever name derives from its main ingredient, stale sourdough bread. Love it.
One man is dead and two paramedics have been injured in a two-vehicle crash in Brampton Wednesday. Peel Police say it happened around 8:30 p.m. at McMurchy Ave and Queen St. when a BMW hurtled through an intersection and collided with an ambulance that was waiting to make a left turn onto Queen. Paramedics tended to the driver of the car but he was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. Two paramedics in the ambulance suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospital in non-life threatening condition. The ambulance was not transporting a patient or responding to a call at the time of the crash. Roads in the area are currently still closed for the investigation.
MAN AND DOG RESCUED FROM BALCONY
A man and his dog were rescued from a fourth floor balcony of a community housing building near Yorkville early Thursday when fire hit the location. .Fire crews were called to the scene shortly before 7 a.m. They found the apartment occupants on the balcony of the unit where the fire originated.
With any luck, there will be mail delivery in Toronto on Thursday. Canada Post employees (CUPW) stopped so-called rotating strikes here sfter a stoppage Tuesday and Wednesday. The walkouts have moved on to Sherbrooke, Calgary and Kelowna, the union says.
The Toronto and New York stock markets saw punishing drops again Wednesday based on an interest rate increase from the Bank of Canada and outright fear about world stability in the US. Toronto fell 376. Headlines about Saudi Arabia out of control, possible cancellation of the nuclear treaty with Russia and other concerns drove the Dow to an astonishing drop of 608 points.
The federal government named a special mediator Wednesday in the hope of ending rotating walkouts that appear to be getting more permanent. Labour Minister Patty Hajdu announced the appointment of Morton Mitchnick hours after the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) said it would keep its members on the picket lines in the GTA. The announcement made the strike seem rather more permanent. The minister said Mitchnick, a former chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, is a highly respected senior arbitrator and mediator. She said he will be joining a team of federal mediators from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service that have been working with the two parties.
There is an outpouring of thanks on social media to Councillor Jon Burnside for his work on behalf of the community over his four-year term at City Hall for Ward 26. Burnside was defeated by Jaye Robinson in the newly-created Ward 15 (Don Valley West) in Monday’s election. The many comments can be seen at Leaside Community and Leaside Chit Chat.
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Andrew Benintendi, J.D. Martinez and the Red Sox came out swinging in the World Series opener, seizing every advantage in their quirky ballpark to beat the Dodgers 8-4 on a chilly, windy Tuesday night. Benintendi delivered four hits, Martinez drove in two early runs and pinch-hitter Eduardo Nunez golfed a three-run homer to seal it. The 108-win Red Sox got a solid effort from their bullpen after an expected duel between aces Chris Sale and Clayton Kershaw never developed. Xander Bogaerts grounded into a go-ahead force out in the fifth and Rafael Devers followed with an RBI single for a 5-3 lead. After Manny Machado hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh for his third RBI, Nunez homered over the Green Monster off Alex Wood in the bottom half. Boston’s David Price faces Hyun-Jin Ryu in Game 2 on Wednesday night. This marks just the third World Series in which both starting pitchers in the first two games are lefties, after 1963 and 1973 — AP
Enchanting family fun for the Tory clan as Senior John get re-elected and his grandson William is so tickled he starts to dance in front of his relatives. Then, it’s 38 years and counting for the mayor of Milton, Gordon Krantz. The venerable first magistrate has been elected 13 times consecutively. Below that, a CBC package on the strange new polio-like ailment called AFM which we brought to your attention a few days ago. Finally, have the police been investigating the police in York Region? There is much dissatisfaction with the outcome of an incident in which a crossing guard claims a police officer ran a stop sign with kids in the road.
A rectangular sinkhole has opened at Jarvis and Isabella Sts. Part of the road appears to have hit a pipe. City crews has been called in to determine whether it’s a gas line — with 680 News
