The special snow notice from Environment Canada predicts a range of 5 to 10 cm by the time the snow tapers off this afternoon. Snow amounts are expected to be below the snowfall warning criteria of 15 cm or more within 12 hours,
Alberta Premier Rachel Notely has told her BC counterpart John Horgan to take his wine and stick it. She’s banned it from Alberta liquor stores and encouraged consumers to treat it like poison. Same thing goes for BC electricity. Not welcome in Edmonton or anywhere else in Alberta. It’s the war that kicks NDP fretting about the environment to the sidelines as Notely fights for petroleum jobs and an economy that stands on two legs — oil and oil. Horgan’s government depends on its continued existence from the Green Party. He is saying that his resistance to the Kinder Morgan Pipeline should not be the cause of a trade war. Kinder Morgan has been approved by the federal government. Their interest in moving Canadian crude to the sea grows daily as the new world of hardball trade with the US is all too real. Canada hopes to find markets to sustain the country’s nearly 80 years of unparalleled prosperity in a world where it may no longer be the biggest trade partner to the Americans. Now add the growing worry over Canada’s merchandise trade deficit. It was a ballooning $3.2 billion in December as rising imports outpaced export growth.
We’re not judging understand. But we can’t quite grasp the meaning of the “special payload” in today’s Elon Musk spectacular. You decide. Then harrowing motor news as cars and trucks slam into each other in the fog on the highway from Dubai to Abu Dhabi. Frightening. Below that, the Berlin Wall has now been down for longer than it stood. Cold War hero Willy Brandt called it the Wall of Shame and so it was. Finally, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has had a bulldozer roll over some smuggled luxury cars in a lesson to the perpetrators.
The warm glow of a weekend of ice action fills the homes of the Leaside Novice Red squad. The lads finished up unbeaten in their five games of play Saturday and Sunday. Well done guys.
Canadian Press reports that the number of Toronto area home sales have dropped year to year. Prices were down on average some 4.1 per cent to $736,783 from $768,351. “It is not surprising that home prices in some market segments were flat to down in January compared to last year. At this time last year, we were in the midst of a housing price spike driven by exceptionally low inventory in the marketplace,” said Jason Mercer, of the Toronto Real Estate Board.
LULULEMON
And shareholders are calling on Athletica for more disclosure surrounding the abrupt departure of its chief executive who it says “fell short” of the Canadian “athleisure” company’s conduct standards. The Lululemon company is staying quiet after saying CEO Laurent Potdevin has left the firm and is no longer on its board of directors. In a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Lululemon said it will pay Potdevin $5-million over a year and a half in exchange for, among other stipulations, agreeing not to sue.
The Town Hall meeting Monday night in the Lea Room of Leaside arena saw a wide range of topics discussed. A summary of Councillor’s Burnside’s agenda is here.
In discussion flowing from questions, Burnside said the issue of homelessness requires federal funding to accommodate the growing number of refugees who are now living in spaces for the homeless. Spaces were increased from 4200 in 2016 to 5700 in 2017 but the number of refugees housed by Toronto went from ten percent of the spaces to 25 percent.
ANGER
There was also anger, as there typically is among homeowners in Midtown, at the weakness of municipal bylaws. One man called them “meaningless.” Others wondered resentfully why the Planning Department is required to consider the same type of variances rejected in the past. In response, City Planner John Andreeysk said proposals had to be considered on their merits, an explanation which some at least found difficult to accept In a discussion of traffic and the need for new routes out of Leaside to the east, Mr. Burnside mentioned that a hoped for ramp off lower Don Mills to the Don Valley Parkway northbound had to be abandoned because there is not enough space in the valley.
Yes it’s unsettling but many investors think that the February stock plunge is a classic exampe of a market that can’t stand good news. One thing is certain. We will know in the days to come. Then to the right, you’ve heard of the Bayview Pixies. Now meet the Army Ice Maidens. They’re a squad of British woman who trekked 1,000 miles across Antactica in just 61 days with temperatures as low as minus 40C. Below that, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office is talking tough but what will it do about its suspicions in the case of Natalie Wood? Finally, rejuvenating kidneys to make them suitable for transplant. Toronto General Hospital in this Goldern Age of Medicine.
The Bank of Nova Scotia branch at Laird Drive and Eglinton Ave. E. was the apparent target of a holdup Monday afternoon. In fact the unofficial account of police calls — TPS Calls — reported such an incident but Toronto Police Operations did not. The branch was sealed off with yellow tape during rush hour. Parents at Northlea school were told to take children straight home at the end of class.
US stocks sold off sharply on Monday, with the Dow industrials falling back below 25,000, as a pullback from record highs deepened and investors grappled with rising bond yields and potentially firming inflation. All three major U.S. indexes fell more than 1 per cent while the Dow and S&P 500 dropped more than 2 per cent. Late in the session, the Dow was down almost 1,600 points. The index then pared some of its losses to just over 900 points. The Dow’s point loss would be its biggest of all time, though in percentage terms, its 5.6 per cent decline wasn’t as big as its worst drop during the financial crisis — Financial Post
NEW HUDSON BAY CHIEF
Helena Foulkes, former executive with the CVS pharmacy in the US, is the CEO for Hudson’s Bay Co. Foulkes. She starts in two weeks. Richard Baker has been acting as HBC’s interim CEO since the departure of Jerry Storch last fall. Baker will continue as governor and executive chairman. “Helena is a transformational leader who will invigorate the business with a new perspective as we position HBC for the future,” Baker said in a statement.
Steve Paikin, the host of the long-running TVO public affairs program The Agenda, has been accused by former mayoralty candidate Sarah Thomson of telling her she could appear on his program if she slept with him. The alleged incident occurred in 2010 and, according to Thomson, has been made subsequently in what might be called a jocular or laughing manner. In a statement released by TVO Chief Executive Officer Lisa de Wilde on Monday, the public broadcaster said it became aware of the allegation Saturday when an email from Thomson was sent to Paikin in relation to comments she alleges took place at a lunch. The station said Paikin immediately notified TVO of the email. Thomson referenced the allegation in an online post published on February 2 in which she alleges Paikin asked if he could sleep with her. “My assistant and I met him at Grano’s on Yonge Street, and the three of us ordered our lunch. Not five minutes into the lunch the host asked me if I would sleep with him,” Thomson wrote. Globe and Mail
Jon Burnside’s Town Hall is at 7 p.m. Monday in the Lea Room at the Leaside Memorial Community Gardens. At the right, the East York Hockey Association is showing off the medal won by its Bantam Bulldog team the at the Select Tournament. The Bulldogs beat the Leaside Flames Red team 2-1 at De La Salle arena in the championship tilt, but by the way, the Flames beat the Bulldogs 2-0 in regular play earlier, so there. Centre left, the Atom A Wildcats are rightly proud of their silver finish at the Aurora Silver Sticks Tourney over the weekend. Good going ladies. And then four Shrove Tuesday reminders from area churches. Would it be possible to hit all four before they wash up? Burp.
It being February and all, such outlooks are to be expected. Let’s remember that there’s no guarantee and hope for the best.
