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— CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) January 27, 2018
A man in his 30s has ben seriously injured in a crash of a dump truck and a minivan early Saturday at Victoria Park Avenue and Eglinton Ave. The intersection has been re-opened.
Friday night saw members of Maurice Cody families at the Hodgson Public School outdoor rink for the Cody Family Skate. Here we see Councillor Josh Matlow (Ward 22) with his daughter Molly. The event was sponsored by realtor Jethro Seymour.
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The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party will hold a leadership race ahead of the June general election, the party’s executive committee announced Friday. Earlier, the caucus appointed North Bay MPP Vic Fedeli as interim leader. All 200,000 members of the party will vote on March 24 on a new leader to challenge Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne. But officially, the race hasn’t started yet. Party president Rick Dykstra said the time frame will be established later. The move contradicts an earlier decision by the party’s caucus that MPP Vic Fedeli would serve as permanent party leader through the upcoming election on June 7.
Bombardiers has dodged a nearly 300 percent tariff on its C Series commercial jetliner as the U.S. International Trade Commission rules in its favour. The commissioners voted unanimously that Boeing did not suffer harm from prospective imports of the C Series. Bombardier called the decision “a victory for innovation, competition, and the rule of law.”
SUPER BOWL ADS
Canadian viewers will still be able to watch American ads when they watch the 2018 Super Bowl on American channels February 4. In a ruling dated Jan. 24, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected Bell Canada’s request for a stay of a CRTC regulation allowing U.S. ads to be shown on Canadian airwaves during the NFL championship game. That means the CRTC decision will almost certainly stay in place for this year’s game, pitting the New England Patriots against the Philadelphia Eagles.
L.A. CAR CHASES
The New Yorker Magazine is cluck clucking about how TV exploits car chases in Los Angeles while producing this entertaining mini-doc on the modern-day phenomenon said to have been embedded in the culture by O.J. Simpson.
Vic Fedeli, 61, a former mayor of North Bay who has been an MPP since 2006, has been chosen by the PC caucus as interim leader. He will lead the party into the June election, it is said. Wikipedia
The Ontario PC caucus is meeting Friday morning with much sentiment in favour of picking an interim leader who will take the party into the June election. City News interviewed Vic Fedeli, a former mayor of North Bay said to have an inside track. To the right, those “clean food” people Panera, are making quite a fuss in the US about the definition of an egg. And yes, we’d like our food to be clean rather than dirty. Below that, stunning images from Israel of Starlings. A must watch for birders. And lastly, watch these Chinese railway workers build a large section of track in mere hours.
The Leaside Jr. Wildcats will swing through Ottawa and Nepean this weekend with games Saturday against the Lady Sens and Sunday against the Nepean Wildcats. Two wins for Leaside please. To the right, the East York Historical Society Evening is January 30 with a celebration of Black History and a surprise guest, they say. Centre left, the TTC “community bus” has started running in four neighborhoods including East York. It is a smaller vehicle like Wheel-Trans but anyone can board. When will we see this service in South Bayview? Below that, Councillor Burnside will hold his Leaside Town Hall February 5 in the Lea Room in the Leaside Arena. Then ,the pancake suppers will soon be upon us. Shrove Tuesday is February 13. And finally, at the bottom, here are the United Way Spirit Award Winners at the Thorncliffe Neighborhood Offices Thursday night.
The owner of Terroni restaurants, Cosimo Mammoliti, and the Cumbrae’s butcher, Stephen Alexander, owner of the enormous Bayview Ave meat and sandwich shop, will join to open a 20,000 square foot store and restaurant in the soon to be completed Montgomery Square development on the corner of Yonge St. and Montgomery Ave. It is the site of the former Postal Station K, a heritage building saved by forward-thinking builder the Rockport Group. The 1936 landmark is seen in a Rockport depiction. The luxury rental building, still unfinished, will rise 27 storeys above Yonge at the site. Patrons of the as-yet unnamed Terroni-Cumbrae’s enterprise will be able to stroll about on the softly lighted square shown here. Book a reservation in the Spring of next year. Previous post.
Canada’s competition regulator said Thursday it is suing Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, for allegedly misleading consumers on the prices for sports and other entertainment tickets. The Competition Bureau said an investigation found that Ticketmaster’s advertised prices are deceptive because consumers wind up paying additional fees that are added later in the purchasing process. The bureau called the practice “drip pricing” and said it results in consumers paying higher prices than advertised. The regulator claimed that Ticketmaster’s mandatory fees often inflate the price by more than 20 per cent, and, in some instances, by over 65 per cent.
Looking for a bit more from your local Preschool? The preschoolers over at CGS (Children’s Garden School on Eglinton) are loving their TouchMath program. They were recently introduced to counters during circle time. Working as a team, they are beginning to put number sentences together. They are using several hands-on materials to reinforce the concepts of one-to-one correspondence, counting and recalling numbers. For more information about the programs at CGS, contact Kelly, Director of Admission, at kscott@cgsschool.com or 416 423 5017 x 43. Spaces available for Preschool 2018/19. Full and half days available. For more fun stories about CGS, visit their blog
At 2 Orchard Green the little original Bennington Heights home has been torn down and replaced with a spacious four-bedroom “secluded manse” that is currently offered through Royal LePage Real Estate Services for $4,995,000. The property was purchased in 2016 for $1,800,000. Secluded describes this home well enough but as locations goes, it enjoys the extraordinary convenience to any point on the Midtown or downtown compass offered by that semi-secret place called Bennington Heights.
