Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Mike Babcock is teaming up with Babsocks, Movember and the Greater Toronto Hockey League (GTHL) to raise money and awareness for youth mental health issues. The Mt. Pleasant store run by Thomas McCole and Jake Mednick has supplied moustached versions of the celebrated foot garb whimsically named after the Leafs coach. They are on sale at a Movember pop up store at 588 Richmond St West from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Monday to Friday. They’re $20 a pair with $5 going to the Movember Foundation to support mental health projects. Or buy online
Reports hardly seem believable but the CBC says that Bombardier Inc. has sold a majority stake in its CSeries passenger jet business to European aerospace giant Airbus for “no cost” which is to say nothing. It is an indication of the competitive and regulatory hurdles faced by Bombardier from both Boeing and the US government. The move comes after lacklustre sales and the U.S. Commerce Department imposition of harsh duties on Bombardier. It accuses the Montreal-based company of selling the CSeries planes in the US below cost and receiving government subsidies. The Commerce Department recently announced it would impose an 80 per cent duty on top of duties of nearly 220 per cent. The case has been a win for US-based rival Boeing. Boeing has said it didn’t move early enough against Airbus subsidies in the 1970s. Airbus is now is a global giant.
BOMBARDIER JET WILL BE MADE IN ALABAMA
The Financial Post says that under the agreement, which was signed Monday, Airbus will acquire a 50.01-per-cent stake in the CSeries program and provide the Bombardier division with procurement, sales and marketing and customer support expertise. Bombardier will now own approximately 31 per cent, while Investissement Quebec will own 19 per cent. An Airbus assembly line in Mobile, Alabama will make the CSeries there to qualify it for sale in the US without punishing tariffs. Below is the French language news conference held late Monday.
No turns at Mt. Pleasant/Eglinton until mid-November
Re-created 1920 bank
The Metrolinx show and tell in the rotunda of the Eglinton Centre Monday offered a warning that the single-lane status in all directions at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton also prohibits turns for about a month. By mid-November, it appears that turns will be permitted again although single lanes will still prevail. The meeting reviewed aspects of the station locations at Mt. Pleasant and Yonge and Eglinton. The 1920s CIBC building will be recreated at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton with many original elements although structurally it will be new. There will be three doors for the many passengers coming and going. They will be at the nearly-90 year-old portal on the corner, on Eglinton and on Mt. Pleasant. The depiction of the re-built bank continues to show the elegant Palladian window over the door. The LRT station at Yonge and Eglinton will be a new building west of Canada Square on the south side of Eglinton. Eglinton LRT station will sit to the west of Canada Square
Power was off to residents of Merton Street between Bayview Ave and Cleveland St. Monday as Davey Tree Service worked carefully to cut down a broken branch at mid-block. It had cracked in Sunday’s wind. Those wires normally carry enough juice to kill so Hydro took no chance as the tree work proceeded.
The intersection of Yonge St. and Lawrence Ave was shut down for an hour at midafternoon Monday as crews repaired a gas main rupture. Traffic was diverted at Woburn, Jedburgh, Duplex and Cheritan. There were no injuries. The corner is clear of all obstruction now.
Happy pickets at Sir Sandford Fleming in Peterborough
Faculty at Ontario’s 24 colleges are walking picket lines today, with the labour dispute affecting more than 500,000 students in the province. The strike involving more than 12,000 professors, instructors, counsellors, and librarians began late Sunday, after the two sides couldn’t resolve their differences by a deadline of 12:01 a.m. Monday. Both sides say there are currently no talks scheduled to end the dispute. The colleges say they have put a four-year-agreement that offers a 7.75 per cent pay increase on the table which it would like faculty to vote on. The issue for OPSEU seems to be more permanent teachers which is framed as job security. Also this report with a slightly different skew from Ginella Mass. Quite touching attempt to grapple with this cultural oddity by a foreign student who has never seen such a thing in her homeland.
The Duchess of Cambridge joined Paddington for a dance on a station platform Monday during a surprise visit to a charity event. She and Princes William and Harry were at Paddington Station to meet a group of children who have been helped by their charities. While Harry did not seem keen to join the famous bear for a boogie, the Duchess appeared happy to join in.
The speed limit on Bayview Ave. below Pottery Rd. will be on the agenda at the Public Works Committee Wednesday where Councillor Burnside will argue to restore the limit from 50 to 60 km. The motion is expected to be voted on by Council on November 9, 2017. Here is a link to the Publics Works Committee’s agenda for the October 18, 2017 meeting:
Students were being warned to check websites and notices as faculty decided it was necessary to strike against community colleges in Ontario. Locally, George Brown College, Seneca College and Humber College have all announced that full-time, part-time and continuing classes will be cancelled until the strike is over. The union is the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). Toronto Sun
The staggering number of dead in the Somali capital is 276 people with about 300 others injured. The impoverished land is a frontier in the savage war against religious extremism that has gripped the world for more than 20 years. To the right, the new Chancellor of Austria will be a fresh-faced 31-year-old when he is sworn in this month. The continent is in a convulsion of revolt against refugees. Below that, City News is on Milvan Drive covering the killing of a 43-year-old marijuana shop attendant. What was it about? You may well ask. Finally, Thomas the Tank Engine, that durable steam powered boy is getting some girl power at the train yard. Could be good.
Toronto Hydro continues to struggle with multiple power outages across Toronto. One large outage as seen on its online map as a large irregular section of Etobicoke. It extends from nearly the Gardiner Espresseway to the 401. The utility has pledged that crews will work continuously until power is restored and warned that in some areas the blackout may last until Monday.
Crews will work until all power is restored.Please be prepared that some outages may last until tomorrow. We'll share these areas when avail
