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McEclipse break

Oregon was the place to be this Monday as the full eclipse of the sun by the moon swept across the US beginning about 9.30 a.m. Pacific time. The tiny hamlet of Madras, Oregon welcomed thousands of visitors with all their paraphernalia for the moment. You can see the path of the eclipse in the NBC video below. The excitement of the full eclipse is heard and seen in the CNN video. In most parts of the upper Pacific, McDonald’s gave employees three minutes off (see sign) to watch the eclipse. A kind of McEclipse. Donald and Melania Trump were outside the White House with the necessary eye shades. Brides planned wedding events around the rare event. In Canada, a partial eclipse was visible in Vancouver but Toronto, where skies were to be somewhat darkened, it seemed way too normal.

Lena Badali

Friends of Lena Badali are invited to visit with family at the Humphrey Funeral Home A.W. Miles – Newbigging Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Davisville Avenue) from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, August 22nd.  A Mass of Resurrection will be held at St. Anselm’s Roman Catholic Church, 1 MacNaughton Road on Wednesday, August 23. Please contact the Humphrey Funeral Home A.W. Miles – Newbigging Chapel for the time of the service. Obituary

Big Ben has fallen silent for a proposed period of four years while essential work is done to modernize and sustain the British institution. But the public is upset and politicians concerned.

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Going nowhere/@hashtagvajana

Many thanks to Twitter shooters @MolsonIsMyDog and @hashtagvajana for this look at life when streetcars go nuts. This one, a no doubt much-loved 511 Bathurst, went off the tracks at King about 8 a.m. Monday

If you follow celebrity chefs you may know the name of Susur Lee, a Hong Kong-born Canadian who has risen to celebrity-dom over a number of years and now runs at least two downtown restaurants with his sons. Now the CBC has a story about how his places made wait staff pay for mistakes like breaking a glass or delivering to the wrong table by forfeiting part of their tips. It is an egregious thing no doubt and worse than that, says CBC, against the law in Ontario. The story is long and at some points makes it sound like Lee was flogging his waiters. He wasn’t. Life in Toronto. CBC

Toronto police are expected to reveal the new design for their cruisers Monday, a paint scheme created by Ryerson University’s RTA School of Media. Last year, police misfired with a plan approved by Chief Saunders to paint the cars in shades of gray. No one liked that and it was quickly shelved. Most Toronto police cars are white with blue and red stripes. That design has been around since the mid-80s. Before that, cruisers were in highly-visible chrome yellow. The decision to leave chrome yellow was related to the cost of the paint. Earlier this year, police spokesperson Meaghan Gray told City News that members of the public have said that easy recognition of cruisers is important to them. Here is the new colour scheme.

Fire sweeps home with well-tended garden

4 a.m. call/Tony Smyth Twitter

Children all escaped

The modest semi-detached home on Mortimer Ave. belonging to a house-proud family was swept by fire early Monday, leaving the family scrambling to make sense of its affairs. Father, mother and children all escaped the 4 a.m. blaze which the owner attributes to a faulty connection along an extension cord to his bar fridge. The home sits on the corner of Logan Ave and from that sidewalk the manicured garden full of children’s toys may be seen. No doubt the semi next door is badly damaged by smoke. This single-alarm fire was called in shortly after 4 a.m.

Cooler temperatures have greeted Monday and the afternoon partial eclipse to be seen over Toronto. The City will close outdoor swimming pools between 2:15 p.m. and 2:45 p.m. because of low light and a presumed cause for caution. “We would appreciate participants’ cooperation during this time and apologize in advance for any inconvenience,” a notice on the City’s website read. CBC streams eclipse from Vancouver. Below, 1979 broadcast (Frank Reynolds) expresses hope that the next full eclipse (this one) will occur in a world at peace. Amen.

"May the shadow of the moon fall on a world at peace." ABC News report from February 26, 1979 about the world of August 21, 2017 pic.twitter.com/oRK0mwAoLm

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) August 18, 2017

Tabirul Hasib/Twitter

The CBC says a Toronto man is named on an Interpol list of individuals they fear are waiting to strike the West. Tabirul Hasib disappeared three years ago with two others after a worrisome time for authorities and his family as he flirted with the death cult. Hasib fled to the Middle East, was brought back, questioned and beseeched by his parents to give it up. But then he vanished. Now 25, the former Monarch Park Collegiate student is potentially part of the murky body of individuals who could be anywhere, waiting to strike. CBC