Parents and teachers are discussing a new e-learning requirement for kids entering the high school system this fall. Many comments say the scheme is intended to allow the Toronto and District School Board to potentially avoid hiring teachers. The requirement stipulates two credits out of a required total of 30. This page posted by Gorden Lau seems useful.
Tallest firefighting device soars about 22 storeys says TFS
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Fire apparatus can reach 22 floors
Looking down
The Toronto Fire Service has held a photo opportunity to show off its new sky-high fire apparatus. It’s called the Bronto Skylift. The skylift is said to be the tallest firefighting equipment in North America. Mayor Tory and Fire Chief Pegg were on hand.
Loblaws profit soars 40% as Toronto house prices slide
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Loblaws has raised its quarterly dividend as it reported its first-quarter profit rose nearly 40 percent compared with a year ago. The grocery and drugstore retailer said Wednesday it will now pay a quarterly dividend of 40.5 cents per share, up from 36.5 cents per share.
Home sales down in real time
Toronto’s home market cooled sharply in just a month, the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board has revealed. Sales have dropped by about 41 percent since last year and 27 percent in one month. The board attributed much of the decline to homebuyers who are taking a break from the market as interest rates climb and reduce their buying power.
Leaside aces, Greg Verduin and breakfast in bed ice cream
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Leaside Volleyball Club U18 team/Twitter
Greg Verduin
Shop2Win
Breakfast in bed ice cream with pancakes
You’d have to say that the ladies of the Leaside Volleyball Club U18 team absolutely aced their team picture (left). Many more blazing aces to you, guys. At upper right, the late Greg Verduin has been gone a year but friends at Leaside High School hope to remember him with a scholarship in his name. Below that are a couple of better local commercial ideas. The Mount Pleasant Village BIA continues its inventive Shop2Win promotion and Baskin and Robbins introduces (would you believe) Breakfast in Bed Ice Cream. Har. Finally down below, Barbara Snell recalls the smart-looking kids in the 1955 kindergarten class at Northlea EMS. She wants some help with names.
KIndergarten class of 1955 at Northlea EMS
Flickering lights, brief outage in Davisville early Monday
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Residents report both a brief flicking and/or a short outage lasting as long as 60 seconds on the east side of Davisville Village Monday morning. FB
Sparkling Leafs blank Tampa 5-0 as full house roars delight
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It was just like old times — only better. As a full house at Scotiabank Arena screamed support the Leafs blanked the Lightening 5-0 in Game One of their Atlantic Division playoff series.
Dun-Da-Dundas, Oh Vicky and giggly accents of old Blighty
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Patrice Dutril
Vicky White
George Homer
Faces, faces and we begin with Patrice Dutril (left) a professor of politics at Ryerson who says the City’s plan to rename Dundas Street is based on a total hoax. Dutril says Henry Dundas was in fact a key collaborator and friend of the great abolitionist William Wilberforce and assisted in the plan to abolish slavery. Then we see Vicky White, a guard at an Alabama prison who seems to have absconded with one of the inmates. Oh Vicky. And finally, on the right is Bowler-adorned West Midlands tourist guide George Homer, It’s a hoot listening to George explain why he talks the way he does.
Fatal rollover, tumble down embankment at Highway 427
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Woman passenger killed in long tumble down embankment/OPP
A woman passenger, 27, has died in the rollover and long fall down an embankment early Monday. She was thrown from the vehicle. It occurred at a ramp on Highway 427 at Highway 407. The driver, a man, is in hospital in unknown condition.
Defense minister says gov’t undeterred by Russian threats
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As Canada begins to fulfill arms shipments and training to the Ukrainian army, Defence Minister Anand says she is undeterred by what she called “Kremlin rhetoric” threatening action against countries that help Ukraine. Anand was in Washington meeting US defense secretary Lloyd Austin. Vladimir Putin has issued threats of “lightning retaliation” against those who help Ukraine fight back against his quaintly named “special operation”.
Trillium province winner $11 million richer Sunday morning
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Saturday’s $11 million Lotto 649 jackpot was won by a ticket holder in Ontario. The draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize also went to a player in the Trillium province. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on May 4 will be an estimated $5 million.
Mooredale Mayfair thunders back after pandemic absence
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Mayfair, the annual celebration of Spring in Moore Park and Rosedale, will return on May 13 and 14 after a two-year pandemic absence. A signal part of Mayfair is the parade of school kids, adults, business people, ad hoc bands, police and sometimes the odd soldier. Everyone is welcome in the motley crew that’s been forming up at Moorevale Park on Moore Ave since 1946. The parade winds down to the MacLennan Ave footbridge known universally as The Ramp. Then it’s a short march down to Rosedale Park for the fun and games. This year’s posters say that no tubas are necessary. But if you’ve got one, bring it. Mayfair is run by the Mooredale Association.
No tuba required/Bulldog
Timeless route of the Mayfair Parade
TFS rescues residents from roof during fire in Forest Hill
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Fire personnel climb to roof of Avenue Rd home
Toronto Fire Service personnel have extinguished a three-alarm fire at a home at 727 Avenue Rd. between Killarney Rd and Kilbarry Rd in Forest Hill early Saturday. Residents of the home were found on the roof and rescued.
