Angie Mansur and Renee Melbourne of Baskets “N” Joy
D Jay the Entertainer
Lineup for face painting
Lexus
Time out
A lively Saturday in Trace Manes Park saw many merchants and businesses participating in the Leaside Block Party in aid of the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. Food, music, games, face painting and raffles ruled the day with part of the price going to the hospital. Many well-known businesses participated: COBs Bread, Grilltime, Flow Spring Water, Neal Brothers, Lexus on the Park, Meridian Credit Union, Baskets “N” Joy, Microsoft, Access Storage, Dominos Pizza, Leaside Cyclebar, Integracare and Elevate Fitness were some
Bayview Ave. from River St. to south of Dundas St. will remain closed until Monday for repairs to a watermain. The rupture occurred Friday and undermined the pavement. City Works says repairs have also been complicated by underground utilities, including gas and hydro.
Breezy weather at the wedding of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank didn’t stop family and guests. Note the length of the train of Eugenie’s wedding dress.
It’s the way gambling works. The house usually wins and when there’s a string of losses, like now, that’s normal. There was no winning ticket for the $60 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. There were however 14 Maxmillions prizes of $1 million won across the country. The jackpot for the Lotto Max draw on Oct. 19 will remain at approximately $60 million, but the number of Maxmillions prizes will increase to 53.
Ontario Judge Michael Penny has removed Brandon Truaxe as the CEO of Deciem Cosmetics after hearing testimony that the erratic entrepreneur has “essentially lit the company on fire.” Lawyer Mark Gelowitz, acting for one-third owner Estee Lauder acknowledged that Truaxe might once have been a “diabolical marketing genius building the brand…but he’s gone too far.” Most critically, the Truaxe move to shut down business at the firm’s many stores caused an avalanche of breach of lease complaints and threatened lawsuits from employees. There was also testimony that Truaxe’s Twitter and Instagram rampage was destroying the credibility of the brand. His announcement last week that he was shutting down business made lurid but unexplained allegations of criminality by staff in general. It concluded with a flourish of bitter remarks about his own treatment by others. Cosmetic boss bizarre post blames “criminals” for shutdown
Cynthia Mulligan (the formidable City Cynthia) assays one of the many contests where incumbents collide. She cites some interesting nuances including backyard chickens. Guess who doesn’t care? A useful statistic in races such as St. Paul’s is just how the combined electorate is divided in percentage terms by natural incumbency. It isn’t necessarily 50/50.
Good Saturday morning. The Awesome Sale (Part 2) at Leaside United Church starts at 10 a.m. Then at 11 a.m. there’s the Leaside Block Party across the street at Trace Manes Park. It is a chance to support the work of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. Up in the right corner is a reminder about the wretched overnight bottleneck on Eglinton Ave between Donlea Dr. and Hanna Rd. to re-pave and paint the road. Details from the TTC. Looking ahead to next week, the Leaside Blood Donors Clinic is Tuesday at Northlea School. At bottom right, new ATM machines at Scotiabank on Bayview glow green. But don’t forget your card.
Princess Eugenie, 28, has married Jack Brooksbank at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor. She’s the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. There were guests from Canada, friends of the groom’s family. Prince Phillip, 97, famously no fan of Fergie, arrived with the Queen.
The final report from the US National Transportation Safety Board on the near-miss at San Francisco in 2017 says the pilots delayed reporting the incident to Air Canada. Associated Press says the captain, identified in NTSB documents as Dimitrios Kisses, was supposed to report the San Francisco incident to the airline as soon as possible but didn’t because he was “very tired” and it was late. He waited until the next day. By that time, the plane was used for another flight, and the audio loop on the cockpit voice recorder was taped over. The NTSB does not allege that Kisses and co-pilot Matthew Dampier deliberately delayed reporting the incident, but it did say that investigators could have gained a better understanding of what the crew was doing before the close call. The jet flew less than 60 feet over crowded planes waiting to take off.
CONFUSED BY CLOSED RUNWAY
The NTSB is considering recommending that cockpit recorders capture the last 25 hours of flying time, up from two hours under current rules. Board member Weener also criticized the airline industry’s reliance on self-reporting of safety issues, saying the industry and the Federal Aviation Administration should consider stronger measures to intervene after a dangerous situation. Weener noted that other pilots were alert enough to turn on lights to warn the off-course Air Canada jet. Yet once the danger passed, he said, they took no action to prompt “an intervention and evaluation of the Air Canada crew.” The five-member board determined last month that the incident was caused by the Air Canada pilots being confused because one of two parallel runways was closed that night. The closure was noted in a briefing to the pilots, and nine other planes had made routine landings after the runway was shut down.
