A report of a man trapped in a trench at the LRT construction site along Eglinton near Hanna Rd. has been resolved, police say. Injuries if any are not serious. As many as 11 TFS vehiclea attended the site which accordng to local witnesses was near Hanna Rd. TTC service has returned to normal.
ALL CLEAR: The delay at Bayview and Eglinton has cleared. 34 Eglinton East and 54 Lawrence East have returned to regular routing. #TTC
— TTC Service Alerts (@TTCnotices) October 14, 2017
Joshua Boyle, the Canadian man who took his wife to Afghanistan for purposes not very clear, was captured by the Taliban and then had three children in captivity one of whom died, was lamenting things at Pearson airport Friday night for reporters. He seemed concerned that his children are able to have a better childhood here. CBC
The Opposition is suggesting that a two-year delay by Finance Minister Bill Morneau to report a company which owns a villa in France is an offense punishable by the Commons Ethics Commissioner. The CBC is saying that Mr. Morneau, a resident of Bennington Heights, revealed the firm called Mas des Morneau after it began to ask questions as to why it did not appear in the minister’s revealed holdings. Tax experts say there can be some advantages to holding real estate in France through a company such as Mas des Morneau, including avoiding inheritance tax. It is a legal and commonly used method but while Morneau has owned the company for a decade and was named finance minister two years ago, the company was only added to Morneau’s ethics filings on September 22. The villa is at the Town of Oppede about 60 km inland from Marseilles. CBC
The US is about to present a NAFTA proposal on the content of cars which an unnamed analyst is quoted as calling “comical” and so complicated that he can’t believe the Americans are serious about it. A Canadian Press report datelined the Pentagon says that the proposal would require all cars sold without tariffs to include 85 per cent North American content, 50 per cent U.S. content and provide a detailed listing of parts that didn’t exist in 1994 when NAFTA was introduced. The rocky NAFTA talks have raised many suspicions that the US is trying to make Canada and Mexico walk away from negotiations. Both said Thursday that they will not do that.
Children’s Garden School couldn’t have asked for a better day to celebrate Terry Fox. The community came out in full strength last Friday. This was the 19th consecutive Terry Fox Walk for CGS. This small but mighty Leaside school is a top fundraiser in Ontario for schools of 300 students or less. The spirit of perseverance, hope and love that Terry Fox embodied is a guiding principal for staff and students all year long.
Researchers at the University of New Brunswick have concluded that treed and grassy neighbourhoods are good for your health. They suggest that this green grass effect is what makes people who live there healthy. Residents of Toronto’s leafy Midtown were no doubt part of this survey of 1.3 million non-immigrant adults living in the 30 biggest cities across the country. But wait. It seems that a closely-reasoned view of green, affluent neighbourhoods might well conclude that lawns and tree-lined streets while nice (and healthy) are more likely to be incidental to the money people have to spend on where they live. People in these neighbourhoods have more “green” to buy countless healthy things ranging from medical advice and modern drugs to fitness assistance. See what you think.
The three people shown above are sought by police for an alleged attempt to set fire to two men who they apparently did not know during an argument at the Agincourt Mall, 3850 Sheppard Ave. E. The victims, both 18, were “confronted” by these persons — a woman and two men. During the argument one man got a can of gasoline from his car. He doused the teens with gas and tried to light them on fire This attempt failed. If you know them, call police.
TTC brass has said they find the newly announced shortfall in the delivery of streetcars by Bombardier in 2017 to be “completely unacceptable.” The company says it will deliver 65 vehicles by the end of the year, a shortfall of five from the 70 trams it had said it would produce. In making its bad news report, Bombardier recited how it had expanded the production line in Thunder Bay, hired more employees, invested in developing its manufacturing sites and called upon the expertise of its global workforce. All to nought, it seems. It still couldn’t get the job done. TTC chairman Josh Colle and CEO Andy Byford called the delivery shortfall “extremely disappointing and frustrating.” They said there should be 146 new streetcars in service, instead of just 45. “This is completely unacceptable,” they said in a news release. “The TTC is having to continue to use buses on streetcar routes to meet ridership demand.”
Dear God. A petition against the eating of seal meat has now been added to the 2017 register of “colonial” abuses committed by Canadians against the Indigenous. The petition was authored by someone named Jennifer Matos and directed at the new Indigenous restaurant Ku-kum at 581 Mt. Pleasant Rd. The owner and chef Joseph Shawana has told the CBC that seal meat will stay on the menu at his midtown Toronto restaurant despite the petition. But this could not remain simply about food or even whether we may eat what we want. A recent treatise on Care2 petitions will drag any who care go there through the horrors of the last three centuries and how colonial beasts relied on Indigenous folk for food. Good to know. And best wishes to Mr. Shawana.
Crews continue repair work after a double-decker bus collided with a car, mounted the curb and struck a pole, bringing some hydro wires down. 680 NEWS reporter Carl Hantske was at the scene Thursday morning.
So distinguished. This man has tattoos of a star (or stars) on each elbow as police ask the public to help find him for break and enter offenses in the Duncan St. and King St. West area. He has taken cash, electronics and jewelry. Robert Robin Cropearedwolf, 38, of Toronto, is wanted for these incidents. He is described as 5’6″, 145 lbs., with long black hair that is often braided. And oh yes, star tattoos on both elbows.
A Canadian man, his US wife and three children are said to free after five years in captivity at the hands of the Taliban. Associated Press says the US secured the release of Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman. They were abducted five years ago while travelling in Afghanistan and have been held by what is said to the Haqqani network. Coleman was pregnant when she was captured. The couple had three children while in captivity. AP says family’s current location is unclear and officials declined to say when the family planned to return to North America. The U.S. has criticized Pakistan for failing to aggressively go after the Haqqanis. A US national security official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing operation, commended Pakistan for their assistance.
MARRIED TO OMAR KHADR’S SISTER
Joshua Boyle is described by Wikipedia as the second of five children of Patrick and Linda Boyle. He attended a Mennonite school and was involved with his mother’s “Anglican church and his father’s Catholic faith.” He graduated with a B.A. from the University of Waterloo in 2005.[ He is known by his friends as a pacifist. Boyle expressed interest in doing humanitarian work in places known to be dangerous. Boyle had a long-standing interest in Islamic terrorism, stating in 2009 that “anything related to terrorism on Wikipedia, I wrote, pretty much.” He took an interest in the Gitmo detainee, Omar Khadr and married Omar’s sister Zaynab Khadr in 2009 becoming her third husband
