Police called to “black bear” in the road at Meadowvale Rd.

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DPS teachers, staff ham it up at Vaughan temporary digs

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Staff meeting of DPS teachers at Vaughan Road Academy

Here’s the staff of Davisville Public School at their first meeting in the two-year temporary location for classes as a new school is constructed on Millwood Rd. Vaughan Road Academy at 529 Vaughan Rd. has been held vacant for this occasion. There will be busing of course for 2018-19 and 2019-20 but a better school is coming. That’s principal Shona Farrelly acting her age in the centre. Go Shona, Go Dragons. Below, a mysterious denizen of the road snapped by Kelly Liu outside Two Dog Sports Bar. Below that a scrumptious dish of eggs, bacon and shoestrings at Green Canoe at Millwood and Randolph Rds.  Yet further down is Mayor Tory’s busy schedule on July 1. Map at the bottom shows the orphan Ward 17 now part of Toronto and East York by a narrow 19 to 17 vote at Council. This takes T&EY over to the Humber River. Finally, the fireworks photo is a reminder of the local show set for Monday, July 2 at LHS field at about 9.30 p.m. 

Outside Two Dogs Sports Bar at 1620 Bayview
Breakfast at Green Canoe
Mayor’s Canada Day
East York Canada Day parade
Ward 17 goes into Toronto and East York
Fireworks at LHS field on July 2

Subway hero who rescued blind man is Kyle Busquine, 24

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The young man who leaped down onto tracks where the third rail was live to rescue a blind man who had fallen there has been identified as a landscaping employee, Kyle Busquine. Busquine was seen by witnesses in the Broadview station as he went to the man’s aid without hesitation. In the process, he was helped by two other riders. One person who saw all this was Julie Caniglia. She posted a photo and story to Facebook. It has now been seen more than 33,000 times.  CBC  Hero leaps onto tracks to save blind man stranded below

21-member cabinet sworn in as new PC government begins

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Members of the new cabinet pose with Lieutenant Govenor Elizabeth Dowdeswell

Doug Ford has put together a snug 21-memberr cabinet in keeping with his promise to make government tighter. After his swearing in, Ford went outside the Legislature and took the oath again in front of adoring “Ford Nation” supporters.

Doug Ford, Premier and Intergovernmental Affairs
Caroline Mulroney — Attorney general and minister responsible for Francophone affairs
Christine Elliott, Minister of health and long-term care and deputy premier
Monte McNaughton, Minister of infrastructure
Lisa MacLeod, Minister of children, community and social services and minister responsible for women’s issues
Lisa Thompson, Minister of education
Todd Smith, Minister of government and consumer services, and government house leader
Laurie Scott, Minister of labour
Peter Bethlenfalvy, President of the Treasury Board
Raymond Cho, Minister for seniors and accessibility
Steve Clark, Minister of municipal affairs and housing
Victor Fedeli, Minister of finance and Chair of cabinet
Merrilee Fullerton, Minister of training, colleges and universities
Ernie Hardeman, Minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs
Sylvia Jones, Minister of tourism, culture and sport
Rod Phillips, Minister of the environment, conservation and parks
Greg Rickford, Minister of energy, northern development and mines, and minister of Indigenous affairs
Michael Tibollo — Minister of community safety and correctional services
Jim Wilson, Minister of economic development, job creation and trade
John Yakabuski, Minister of transportation
Jeff Yurek, Minister of natural resources and forestry




City renames street to honour Thorncliffe Park’s Pat Moore

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Tireless advocate/Toronto.com
Role model for youth/Bulldog

Mayor Tory will present Patricia (Pat) Moore with a Key to the City for her tireless work to ensure that everyone in Toronto’s Flemingdon and Thorncliffe Park communities has a voice. The presentation will take place Saturday ( June 30) at 1:30 p.m. at Beth Nealson Dr. at Thorncliffe Park Dr. (northwest corner) at which time the westerly portion of Thorncliffe Park Dr. will be renamed Pat Moore Drive. A statement from the mayor said “Patricia Moore is extraordinary. She understands the real issues that face her neighbours and has the ambition and courage to take the lead so that they may be heard and positive change can happen,” said Mayor Tory. “Patricia is a role model to the youth of her community and her achievements speak plainly to the common good of all the people who live there. For her bold commitment to grassroots change and her nobility of character, I am proud to present Patricia Moore a Key to the City.” Pat Moore has lived in Flemingdon and Thorncliffe Park for more than 40 years. She is known as an advocate for the underdog on issues related to housing as well as youth and women’s rights. Over the years, her work has contributed to the creation of tenants associations that help to protect the rights of tenants as well as making more co-op housing available in the community. She has raised awareness of the need to stop violence against women and has created community programs to support the growing youth population in her neighbourhood.

Raise the flag and celebrate July 1 weekend with friends

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Team Cast My Line starring l-r Jennifer, Chelsea, Ashley, Sonia and Willy
Laura Onyshko with the Citizenship and Community Engagement Award
Canada Parade starts at Dieppe Park
Andy Elder with Ben and Jessica Mulroney
Mabel’s Fables

Upper left, these madcap ladies from team Cast Your Line are here to invite others to join in at Leaside Lawn Bowling Club on July 5, 12, 19, and 26 for this year’s Lawn Summer Nights charity and amateur bowling evening. There are three team places remaining to be filled. At right, MP Rob Oliphant presented Laura Onyshko with the Citizenship and Community Engagement Award at Leaside High School convocation. He also notes that Principal Jeanette Plonka will vacate her important post after some 14 years at LHS. Centre left, don’t forget to take in the East York Canada Day parade Sunday starting at Dieppe Park, 455 Cosburn. It heads off to Stan Wadlow Park where many will spend the day. Below that, Andy Elder posted this picture of friends (and guests) Ben and Jessica Mulroney at dinner in the Grilltime shop on Laird Drive. At right, favorite children’s book store Mabel’s Fables is inviting you to read wth your kids this summer.

Tariffs on ketchup, toilet paper but will it help Canada win?

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Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland will visit Hamilton on Friday to reveal the details of the federal government’s plan to support Canada’s tariff-targeted steel and aluminum industries. Freeland will also reveal the complete, updated list of US products and industries that Ottawa intends to target with its own barrage of retaliatory tariffs, which go into effect Sunday. For all Canadians the question looming over these new tariffs is less about whether we can hurt certain US businesses (we can) but rather can we somehow find our way out of punishing tariffs on steel and aluminum.

IS THIS ABOUT DAIRY FARMERS?

According to John Ivison, writing in the National Post, the prospect of a bilateral deal between the US and Mexico was “very close.” He quotes Ted McKinney, the US agriculture department’s undersecretary. But no such chance was at hand with Canada, as the two sides continued to disagree on dairy. Ivison has McKinney saying the US is not trying to “dictate” how Canada manages its dairy industry but wants to end the pricing system on ultra-filtered milk and other protein rich dairy ingredients used to make cheese and yogurt. These products were entering Canada duty free until Canadian dairy farmers and producers persuaded regulators to introduce a new “ingredients strategy” that cut U.S. farmers out of the market. The suggestion from McKinney, says Ivison, is that access for US producers is the hold-up. Prime Minister Trudeau has said Canada is prepared to show “flexibility” on dairy but remains opposed to the imposition of a sunset clause that would automatically terminate the agreement unless the parties agreed otherwise

Hero leaps onto tracks to save blind man stranded below

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Rescuer (centre) and blind man (on floor) pulled from tracks/Julie Caniglia
Julie Caniglia/City News capture
TTC reminds public that power to third rail can be shut off/City News capture

Toronto businesswoman Julia Caniglia, listed owner of the Rashers restaurant outlets, has told of a heroic rescue by an unidentified man at Broadview station Thursday. She recounts it on Facebook and reported it to City News. She recalls that as the train pulled into the station “I had the fright of my life. I heard a faint voice call out help, help me please. It wasn’t coming from anyone in the car and after hearing it again I stood up and looked out. (I saw) a man with a walking cane lying on the tracks. He is blind and had fallen and injured himself. Without hesitation the man you see in this picture in the animal shirt jumped onto the tracks to pull him out. Thankfully, two other men showed up to help as well and this story has a happy ending. Please pass this photo around, these men need to be recognized as good Samaritans. If they hadn’t reacted so quickly, the outcome would have been horrific.”

Ford sworn in Friday as hopeful electorate awaits change

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Premier Ford will be sworn in Friday and a new era of government will begin in Ontario. The PC party has been out of power for 15 years. To the right, major renovations begin this summer on historic Massey Hall. Below that, the slipshod approach to corruption in British Columbia is revealed in this CBC report. And finally, German soccer fans are stunned as their proud team is booted out of World Cup contention for the first time since 1938. Hmm.






Maryland shooter alleged abuser named Jarrod Ramos, 38

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Jarrod Ramos
Shooting scene

Five people are reported dead after a man with a rifle opened fire through glass partitions into the newsroom of the Annapolis, Maryland, Capital Gazette. The shooter was identified Thursday evening as Jarrod Ramos, 38. NBC News and CBS News were among the first to confirm his identity reportedly through the use of face-recognition technology. Ramos allegedly has a history of abusing and harassing women.

Sunnybrook HSC starts work on new roof top helicopter pad

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At present, helicopters land at a ground level pad some 500 metres from the emergency department. Patients must be moved by ambulance. The new roof-top heliport atop M Wing will permit patients to descend by elevator to waiting medical staff must faster. About 20 to 25 percent of some 1,200 trauma cases arrive by helicopter at SHSC every year. Patients can arrive directly from on-scene trauma or as transfers from over 80 referring hospitals across Ontario.

Laneway suites approved by City for Toronto and East York

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Toronto and East York (in pink)

Bylaw amendments that will permit the construction of laneway suites in residential neighbourhoods in Toronto and East York have been approved by City Council. Such neighbourhoods as Davisville Village, Deer Park, Moore Park and the many residential areas east of Broadview Ave. across the Don are included. Some areas don’t have many lanes, however.  T and EY contains the Wards of 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. Support was substantial, with Council voting 30-5 vote on Thursday morning. Apparently the changes do not effect Leaside, which is represented at North York Community Council. Conditions for applications by homeowners to build are said to be strict. Entrances to suites must be no more than 45 metres away from a public street for access by the fire service and others. That rule, in theory, will prevent laneway suites from being built on some properties that are located on dead-end laneways.

SET BACKS, PARKING

Suites themselves must be no more than two storeys or six-metres-tall and can contain only a single unit. Suites must be separated from the rear of existing homes by a distance of 5 to 7.5 metres, depending on their height. They must be set back from the rear property line by at least 1.5 metres with dimensions that do not exceed eight metres in width and 10-metres in length. Between 100 and 300 laneway suites are expected to be constructed each year now that they are permitted, according to staff. As to parking, there appears to be an optimistic view that a supposed decline in the ownership of cars will make this potential issue irrelevant. Time will tell.