Not Your Granddad’s Weed lecture Wed. at Leaside Library

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Not Your Granddad’s Weed: The Forensic Science of Cannabis, Wed Aug 02, 2017, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. in the Leaside Community Room. Learn about the differences between cannabis and alcohol, the history of cannabis use, the various types of marijuana and its effects and risks. A lecture by Jim Wigmore, an internationally recognized forensic toxicologist. www.wigmoreonalcohol.com No registration required. Everyone welcome.

Robust thunderstorms, hail, possible in GTA this afternoon

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Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement:

Issued at 16:20 Tuesday 01 August 2017

Scattered robust thunderstorms across portions of Southern Ontario late this afternoon.

They may be accompanied by localized heavy downpours giving up to 40 mm of rain, wind gusts to 70 km/h and 1 centimetre hail. The thunderstorms should weaken early this evening.

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Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ec.cpio-tempetes-ospc-storms.ec@canada.ca or tweet reports using #ONStorm.

Tuesday, Aug. 1 gallery reaches from Davisville to East York

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He’s at baseball camp
Help find Miss
The fine work of Susan Wright
Wilson Lau
Mysterious and exciting?

East York’s Baseball Mom One @EYbasemum1 is tweeting about her favorite subject Tuesday. He is at East York Baseball Camp these days and very happy. Good going guy. Upper right, signs have been posted around Davisville and Mt. Pleasant in hopes of finding Miss. If you discover her, tweet @katangus  Below that we see Susan Wright with friends in Thorncliffe Park where she is a mainspring of the Summerlunch Plus program that will serve 18,000 meals to students from low-income families over the summer. The Bulldog’s hat is off to you Ms. Wright. Lower left, it is Wilson Lau’s pithy remark that the activity at 1560 Bayview Ave is “mysterious and exciting.” We agree. Check it here in Monday’s post

Rogue royal marine a terrorist bomb-maker for Irish killers

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Ciaren Maxwell, a celebrated royal marine, was a Catholic boy who was beaten up by Irish Unionists in Northern Ireland. In adulthood, the respect accorded his regiment and patriotic work it did were not enough it seems to outrank ties of blood and religion to an Irish terrorist gang dedicated to killing police. Maxwell used his training and access to explosives and equipment to construct bombs for the terrorists. Monday he was sentenced to 23 years in prison but the penalty seems unlikely to erase the mistrust sown by his conduct.

Spaces in basement of 1560 Bayview Ave. show activity

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Lease signs down
Markers?

The three walk-down spaces in the building at 1560 Bayview Ave. have had the lease signs removed (at least they were gone Monday) and the front windows recovered with blank paper. Through the uncovered window on the space on the corner of Bayview and Belsize Drive, floor markers may be seen. These suggest that the X on the box marker is a locator for installation of something. It is not much and speculative to be sure but the neighbourhood is long-suffering when it comes to the chronically vacant spaces in this prominent corner building.

Georgetown MD accused of showing patients naked photos

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The Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons is hearing a discipline matter against a Georgetown physician who, according to complaints, took to showing women patients and women employees, naked and semi-naked pictures of himself. This occurred after Dr. Nigel Mark Phipps had been practicing for more than 30 years. One patient, identified only as Patient A, had been a patient of Phipps for years but fled from his office in complete distress and confusion the day he showed her pictures one of which, she  claims, showed his engorged penis. As she ran she texted him that she would never be back. Toronto Star

Down in the St. Clair Reservoir and free kids tickets to CNE

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In the St. Clair Reservoir
Free kids tickets to the CNE
1960s GMC pickup
R. J. Barrett

Councillor Joe Mihevc (Ward 21) has had a tour of the seldom-seen St. Clair Reservoir that sits below Winston Churchill Park. The enormous holding place for fresh water was built in 1931. Fascinating place. Mihevc (centre) is seen with water personnel. Then to the right, free passes for kids to the CNE are available at local Meridian Credit Union branches like the one managed by Shirley Breen on Mt. Pleasant at Soudan Ave. What a deal. There’s a limit of ten per family. Below that, a tweeted picture of a 1960s vintage GMC pickup seen in the SmartCentre parking lot. Rusted but elegant. And to the right,  the absolute basketball whiz kid R.J. Barrett of Mississauga. He has announced he will “reclassify” himself at the Florida high school he is attending in a move to permit a debut in the NBA sooner. Reclassification is a murky device which may not pass muster in Ontario.

Ballard to climate brief, Murray plunges into think tank

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Aurora MPP Chris Ballard will replace Glen Murray as Environment and Climate Change Minister, Premier Kathleen Wynne has announced. Murray is leaving his cabinet position to join the Pembina Institute on Sept. 5. Murray quits in Toronto Centre, Jo-Ann Davis bid for UR

One dead in fiery crash of paint truck on 401 at Avenue Rd.

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City News/Twitter
CBC/Twitter
Tony Smyth/Twitter

One person was pronounced dead early Monday at the scene of a truck accident said to involve a load of paint. The flames and burned-out wreckage were a testament to the inferno. The crash occurred on Highway 401 near Avenue Rd. and caused a large backup. Kevin Misener of 680 News said the vehicle was carrying paint. The fire was first reported about 5.15 a.m.

PEDESTRIAN DEATH AT DUNDAS/SHERBOURNE

A man is dead and second one injured in an accident which police say was a vehicle hitting a pedestrian. More.