Cops say owner of hit-run car known but she’s not talking
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Feds in bunker in blowback to employee discount blunder
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Diane Lebouthillier: “It wasn’t me”
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Canadian Press say the federal government seems ready to do away with the petty policy scheme that would have taxed employees for discounts they get at work. National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier’s office said Wednesday that the government will pull the new wording at the heart of the debate from the Canada Revenue Agency website. She said the CRA made the original decision to change the wording not her. “This document was not approved by the minister and we are deeply disappointed that the agency posted something that has been misinterpreted like this,” said a statement.
TDSB bans Latin-rooted word Chief to respect guess who?
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The Toronto and District School Board will ban the word Chief “out of respect” for Indigenous peoples. The TDSB chief of social work will now be the manager of social work, for example. The gods are laughing. Chief
Grawp the pumpkin and a gotcha tape of Harvey Weinstein
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The video wheel rolls to special places of the editor’s choice. Today it trundled to North Vancouver where Jeff Pelletier has grown a 1,000-pound pumpkin named Grawp. Then, as the fires burn out in Napa Valley, the death count begins. Below that, the reviled Harvey Weinstein was caught on tape by someone who was wired. Then, the Wheel’s editor could not resist the freshly renovated Berlin opera house where they opened with Scenes from Goethe’s Faust. If you prefer Eminem (ugh) trashing Trump (ugh) go here.
Weekend happenings in South Bayview and events of note
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DeVier Posey at Card Show
Where to put the combined police station
Awesome coming
Mios Raonic at Leaside Tennis Club
Argonauts wide receiver DeVier Posey will be at the Toronto Card Show Sunday in the Amsterdam Brewery meeting room at 45 Esandar Drive. To the right, a further reminder of the Awesome Sale at Leaside United Church this weekend. It starts Friday afternoon and finishes up Saturday morning. Below left, a meeting was held Tuesday night with another planned for October 17 to discuss the best location for the merged 54 and 55 Divisions police station. The prospective locations are now reduced to the East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Ave., the former Danforth TTC garage at 1627 Danforth and the current 55 building at 101 Coxwell Ave. The Danforth East Community Association (DECA) has information. Then finally, a last look at the great time had by members of the Leaside Tennis Club when Milos Roanic came to visit.
Gas-and-dash felon convicted, another deadly case in West
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The alarming frequency of fatal gas-and-dash crimes seems to be statement about how easy it is to steal gasoline but also about the perilous impulse of conscientious gas station attendants to try to physically stop the thief, even at the risk of their lives. Many say gasoline should be pre-paid and maybe so, but petroleum firms can surely do better at educating their employees not to try to stop such thefts. In past decades police and bank staff used to shoot it out with bandits. Now common sense reigns. No amount of money is worth it. City News reports here on a notorious local trial and a new fatal case of gas-and-dash near Edmonton.
2 Councilllors lead OMB appeal against new Toronto wards
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City Councillors Giorgio Mammoliti and Justin Di Ciano along with members of the public at the Ontario Municipal Board fighting the City’s plan to expand the number of wards from 44 to 47. CBC
Girl’s joy captured as she learns her adoption is approved
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I have news
Child’s joy
Tannah Butterfield
The joy of a child is caught on camera as she learns that she and her younger sister and brother will be adopted by the foster parents they have come to love as mom and dad. The girl seen here is Tannah Butterfield, at school in South Utah when she was told the news that the Fishers were approved in court as her adoptive family.
With mom and dad Fisher
Her sister and brother
Thousands of jobs to vanish as Sears seeks total liquidiation
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Sears Canada said Tuesday it plans to seek court approval to begin liquidation of all of its remaining stores and assets. “Sears Canada, with the recommendation of its advisers and approval of the monitor, FTI Consulting Inc., is seeking an order to commence a liquidation that would result in a wind-down of its business following court approval,” Sears Canada said in a release. “The company deeply regrets this pending outcome and the resulting loss of jobs and store closures,” the retailer said. While most of the 12,000 employees will be let go over a 10-to-14-week period as the liquidation sales wind down; most of the 800 head office jobs in Toronto will be eliminated next week. CBC
Skating champ and local meetings in Tuesday photo news
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Becky Tyler
Awesome Sale this weekend
Laird in Focus
Condo and retail proposal
Hall of Fame synchronized skater Becky Tyler will be giving weekly off-ice training lessons starting on Tuesday (October 10) for the East York Skating Club. They will take place at Stan Wadlow Club House, behind East York Memorial Arena. More here. Upper right, get ready for the Leaside United Church Awesome Sale this weekend. It plays out with huge crowds Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Centre right, Geoff Kettel kindly sends the time and place of the next Laird in Focus meeting. It is Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at the Leaside United Church gymnasium, located at 822 Millwood Road, between 6:30 and 9 p.m. There will be a presentation and open house to review alternative development options for the Laird in Focus Planning Study. Lower right, Beach Metro reports that the rezoning application for a seven-storey development at Kingston Rd. and Main St. will be debated at Toronto and East York Community Council on Tuesday, October 17. The application, for 650-652 Kingston Road and 2 Main Street (the northwest corner of Kingston and Main), would contain 56 residential units. Beach Metro also notes an application for a new co-op apartment building at Coxwell Ave. and Gerrard St. E. on the agenda of the T&EY meeting.
Widespread early morning power outage across Leaside
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A widespread power outage in Leaside has been fixed, according to Toronto Hydro. The lights went out sometime after about 7.25 a.m. and effected homes and traffic lights from Bayview and Eglinton to Laird Drive. No cause has been stated. Dozens of residents commented at Leaside Community.
