Landscaping has begun at the site of the new Costco store on Overlea Blvd. Councillor Burnside has estimated an opening in June. These pictures were taken Sunday. A sign is up saying the store is hiring.
The City has issued this order of service for the #TorontoStrong Inter-faith Vigil Sunday night at Mel Lastman Square. All times are approximate. Speakers: 3 minutes each (approximately) Choirs: 5 minutes (including transition time)
Time
6–6:30 Illuminated lanterns placed on stage
6:15 Arrival of community walking from Olive Square Park and Albert Standing Park to Mel Lastman Square
6:40 Red Spirit Singers (Drumming begins)
6:40 – 6:58 Dignitaries seated
7:00 Toronto Jewish Chorus
Soloist – Judy Gershon “One Voice”
Begins with soloist Judy alone on stage with mic, choir joins her onstage through the first verse.7:05 Welcome
Words of Introduction
Show begins
Indigenous Elder, Steve Teekins
Rev. Alexa Gilmour, United Church
Hosts (Lily Cheng, Dwight Drummond, Pooja Handa)7:10 Willard Metzger
V.P. of Canadian Council of Churches & E.D. of Mennonite Church of Canada
Christian community7:14 Imam Refaat Mohamed
V.P. of the Canadian Council of Imams Muslim community7:18 Willowdale Community Choir
Soloist – Melissa Davis
“Instruments of Peace”
Performed a capella
soloist Melissa with mic7:28 Pandit Suraj Persad
Hindu Chaplain
Hindu Community7:32 Rabbi Baruch Frydman-Kohl
Rabbi Yael Splansky, Jewish Community7:36 Toronto Children’s Concert Choir
35 performers: “Hold On Just A Little While Longer”7:46 Venerable Dr. Bhante Saranapala
Deputy Abbot of the West End Buddhist Temple and Meditation Centre
Buddhist Chaplain to the University of Toronto
Buddhist community
Also known as the “Urban Buddhist Monk”7:49 Eva Goldfinger
Ritual led by Inter-faith team
Instrumental accompaniment by MCC artists Diane Leah (pianist) and Colleen Allen (saxophone)
Inter-faith Community, Humanist7:52 Choir of Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto
(26 to 28 members)
“Amazing Grace – Reach out and Touch”7:57 Final remarks by hosts
7:59 Earl Haig Secondary School & Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts
Between 30 and 40 students
National Anthem in English and French8:04 Candles removed from stage and carried backstage by hosts and speakers (10 people, 10 candles)
Poem read by Toronto’s Poet Laureate Anne Michaels
Some 42 years after the Mt. Pleasant streetcar was cancelled by the TTC a stretch of the street holds a buried curse on road maintenance and a smooth drive through Moore Park. It’s the streetcar tracks, covered over with asphalt. Though the tracks have been removed on many parts of the street, it seems they still lurk under the surface from just north of the Moore Park loop (now a parkette) at St. Clair to about Merton St. At a few points, the rusted steel peeks out. It’s a curious footnote to history that just as the streetcar lobby at City Hall had convinced Council to keep the big trolley brutes in Toronto, the TTC found it a good idea to get rid of the cars on Mt. Pleasant. They even double-crossed SERRA, the South Eglinton Ratepayers and Residents Association by promising to keep the cars, but then removed them less than a year later. Glimpse of Mt. Pleasant Rd. as trolley tracks are laid in 1925
A young man in bright red hoodie slams Porsche into a TPS SUV on the Gardiner under the Dufferin Street overpass. He flees past the car where video is being recorded but is soon captured. Police say the Porsche was stolen. More as available. All video on Twitter
VIDEO obtained by Global News shows a Porsche driving on the shoulder and ramming a @TorontoPolice cruiser on the Gardiner westbound at Dufferin St tonight. Man then runs away while the officer appears pinned in his car. Lane closures in effect. #Toronto pic.twitter.com/49r44vcFTe
— Jeremy Cohn (@JeremyCohnTV) April 29, 2018
Interesting pictures show work underway in 1925 on Mt. Pleasant Rd. looking south at Heath St. (left) and north from Moore Ave (right). Tracks orginally carried cars from far west St. Clair Ave. to Eglinton This was before the Yonge subway and St. Clair station split the line in two.
Maybe he is just a nice small town boy after all. These pictures were taken by and for John Kastner, manager of the Justin Bieber Museum in Stratford. They show a long-haired and much more likeable kid than recent history records. It happened Friday and Kastner reports that he got a text from the grandmother Diane Dale asking if they could pop in. As the video below tells us, the visit went nicely and Justin was appreciative of the exhibits.
Justin Bieber visits the Bieber exhibit in his hometown of Stratford, Ont. — but really, it's all about who's on the voicemail when you call the museum. #TheMoment pic.twitter.com/qTDVHXSCNS
— CBC News: The National (@CBCTheNational) April 28, 2018
These stories are in the news Saturday. EU countries have decreed a total ban on the contentious pesticides known as neonicotinoids. All speculation aside, the alarming decline of bee populations seems to coincide directly with the use of this chemical. It has been a burning issue in Ontario for three years and late in 2017 the federal government said it will limit but not ban neonicotinoids. Centre, time for the pink bats at the Lousville Slugger plant. MLB teams will swing pink on Mother’s Day (May 13) to aid breast cancer research. At right is Cassie Levy, a self-styled Tomboy from Hamilton who has launched the role of Elsa in the Disney favorite Frozen. Her debut in New York has been well-received at the box office.
Fire: Kilbarry Rd / Lascelles Blvd
-1 patient sent to hospital for smoke inhalation#GO758716
^ka— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) April 28, 2018
A two alarm fire in a highrise on Lascelles Blvd between Kilbarry Rd. and the Beltline Trail has sent one person to hospital with smoke inhalation Saturday morning.
Luna, the wandering Grey Tabby from North Leaside, has been captured and is home safe Saturday morning. A post Friday night brought the news. She is catching up on some eating and will soon be microchipped.
Fire: Rosedale Valley Rd/ Mount Pleasant.. tent on fire. Units attended with @Toronto_Fire . The fire is now out. 1 person was taken to a trauma centre with serious injuries. #GO755487^adc
— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) April 27, 2018
Revelations that the man accused of being the Golden State Killer was tracked down by the use of familial DNA searching has electrified police and prosecution circles. Familial searching, or FS, is a means of putting cops on the trail of a perpetrator. It multiplies the chances of finding that person many times over conventional searches of criminal databases In the case of Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, police checked DNA extracted from a 30 or 40-year old crime scene sample against a DNA sample on a genealogy database. They found someone who seemed to be related to the killer. The last step was to get a tentative sample, probably by stealth, from DeAngelo. The method is apparently not in use in Canada but it holds enormous promise to solve crimes that have vexed police and burdened the community for decades. $50,000 reward offered in 1997 death of nursing assistant
