Police say a man was injured in a road rage incident in the parking lot at Upper Canada Mall in York Region Friday morning when he fell off the top of his car. He was up there, it appears, to escape another person who was trying to knock him down. An air ambulance landed at the mall about 7.50 a.m. and took the man to Sunnybrook HSC. Strange happenings.
The Invictus Games flag visited Sunnybrook Veterans Centre Thursday. It was duly honoured but hope of seeing the game’s creator, Harry, was in vain. Toronto Star
There has been another fall of glass windows from a high floor of the Four Seasons Hotel at Yorkville and Bay Sts. Thursday afternoon. This is the fifth such rain of glass onto the street since the hotel opened in 2015. The fall was called “substantial” by the fire service and occurred about 1.30 p.m when people and cars were in the street. Engineers are said to be at the scene assessing the structural stability of glass panels on the building. There has been concern elsewhere in downtown Toronto about falling glass as the City deals with an apparent syndrome of collapses from glass towers.
Cumbrae’s butcher shop is set to open Friday, September 22, according to a post on Instagram and elsewhere Thursday. The large new store is at 1589-1591 next to Badali’s Fruit on Bayview Ave.
The Federal Government has appealed the case of Alexander Vavilov, 23, and his brother Timothy, 27, to the Supreme Court of Canada in an effort to have the two deported. They are the sons of Russian spies, born here in the 1990s, as their parents reputedly lived the lives of “sleeper” agents, waiting to be ordered into action on behalf of the Kremlin. It is, as Maclean’s says, utterly stranger-than-fiction. The last-minute action by Ottawa and its purposes in seeking the expulsions is explained by Melanie Ing of City News, which is owned by Rogers Communications, owners of Maclean’s. Thursday, the court had yet to accept the case but it seems hard to imagine that SCOC will refuse to decide a matter of such intimate meaning to Canadian citizenship.
Eglinton Ave. remains closed at 8 p.m. Thursday as the Special Investigations Unit does its work in relation to the men who were stopped, and in one case, arrested by Toronto Police. The other seems to have gotten away. The SIU was there because a woman passenger in the car suffered a back injury.
UPDATE – PERSON W A GUN
Eglinton & Rumsey, CLOSURE on Eglinton from Hanna to Sutherland & Rumsey from Eglinton, ongoing inv #GO1713904 ^cb— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) September 21, 2017
The extraordinarily warm weather this September has inspired an urgent request to landlords to turn off the heat. It’s on because there is a bylaw saying that by this date, it must be on. All well and good but the climate doesn’t care. Then, to the UN where the prime minister doesn’t seem to feel Canadians have had their fill of self-abasement. The UN no doubt loved it. On the other hand, even hard-hearted Canadians may twinge to hear that those happy Norwegians (happiest in the world, they say) have squirreled away a trillion US dollars in their Sovereign Wealth Fund. Okay. Will it cheer you to spend a moment with Rihanna as she introduces her new makeup?
St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church green will host the annual Blessing of the Animals at 1399 Bayview Ave. Saturday, September 30 at 11 a.m. Thursday (tonight) the Amsterdam Breweries at 45 Esandar Drive will rock to the Leaside Smokedown event in support of New Circles. And the fine-looking group at lower right are from Holy Name Catholic School at 690 Carlaw Ave. as they visit the Legislature at Queen’s Park with MPP Peter Tabuns present.
The next phase of station construction at Bayview and Eglinton Aves. will see excavation of the centre of Eglinton on the south side. The work will continue 16 hours a day from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. and is expected to take 15 months. Many new traffic rules will apply including no left turns from northbound Bayview onto Eglinton. Right turns onto Eglinton from northbound Bayview, previously forbidden, will be permitted on a green light (but not red). Right turns from Eglinton going southbound onto Bayview will be forbidden and there will be no pedestrian crossing of any kind, it seems, on the south side of the intersection, crossing Bayview.
No kidding. Marcus Stroman was denied access to the Cactus Club Cafe on Adelaide St. West last night even though he had a table. There is no explanation from the club except that it was stupid on the part of a security guard. Stroman tweeted his shout out to the guard Wednesday. Then, it’s the enthusiastic Prime Minister of Canada at a WE Day event in New York. Under that, Roberta Bondar, Canada’s space woman, talks about her career. And the ever entertaining Jeanne Moos of CNN connects the dots between Donald Trump’s “Rocket Man” and the one created by Elton John.
The giant magnolia tree on the lawn of Leaside United Church has been cut down after a life that took it to a “very old” age, says the church’s webmaster. We will remember the glory as shown here. To the right, the Mt. Pleasant Village BIA will have its Harvest Fair this Saturday, September 23. New member and good neighbour Meridian Trust is presenting the annual day. Below, a reminder that the Leaside Smokedown fun is Thursday (tomorrow) at Amsterdam Breweries on Esandar Dr. in aid of New Circles GLOW (Gently Loved Outfits to Wear). Finally, the ever-popular Toronto Card Show carries on at the Amsterdam location this Sunday.
The Ontario government executed a search warrant at the Volkswagen Canada offices on Tuesday as part of its investigation into the emissions scandal that rocked the company two years ago. The Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change charged Volkswagen AG with one count under the province’s Environmental Protection Act last week. It alleges the German company did not comply with Ontario emission standards. The allegations have not been proven in court.
