Toronto Police say they are concerned for the safety of Graeme Hill, 34, who was last seen on Monday, July 10, 2017, at 5:30 a.m. in the Eglinton Avenue East and Bayview Avenue area. He is described as 6’1″, 145 lbs. with an athletic build, short brown hair and wearing glasses. He was wearing a black golf shirt, black pants and possibly a brown leather baseball cap. Please call 53 Division at 416-808-5300 if you have any information
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Two women have been hit by what police call unknown projectiles as they waited for a TTC bus at Ionview Road and Eglinton Avenue East. The incidents occurred July 12 between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.. In the first, a 43-year-old woman was struck by something coming from an unknown direction. A second woman, 22, was hit in the same time frame in the same way. Their injuries are not life-threatening.
Andrea Giesbrecht, 43, has been jailed for 8½ years for concealing the remains of six infants in a storage locker in Winnipeg. With time already served factored in, Giesbrecht will spend another seven years and 10 months in prison. How the babies died is left unknown but their concealment was laid directly at the Winnipeg woman’s feet with all the implications of the verdict. “Giesbrecht’s moral culpability is extremely high,” Judge Murray Thompson said at Friday’s sentencing hearing. She showed little emotion in court as the judge read his decision. Court heard she hid the bodies of six infants in a U-Haul storage locker she rented. The remains were found Oct. 20, 2014 by employees at the facility, after the woman failed to pay her bill. They were bagged and sealed or encased in cement or powder in an effort to contain the smell of human decomposition and decay.
GAMBLING ADDICTION
Judge Thompson noted that Section 243 of the Criminal Code which forbids such disposal of remains to ensure that newborn deaths are investigated. The judge dismissed the possibility of a non-custodial sentence, noting “Giesbrecht has a well-documented history of deceiving others.” He noted Giesbrecht’s history of gambling addiction, two convictions of fraud over $5,000, and the deceit confirmed by the convictions for concealing the remains. “This required a significant degree of deliberation. Concealing the pregnancies, renting a storage locker, placing each of the bodies there. She has not demonstrated any remorse,” Thompson said. Giesbrecht archive
Dashcam video captures hydro vault explosion at Bay and Adelaide https://t.co/Nq5ZIW3lvL pic.twitter.com/lFCYQJcIP7
— CityNews Toronto (@CityNewsTO) July 14, 2017
The incident seems manageable as explosions under downtown streets go. It may not deseerve to be called a panic but it is still a nice beat for City News. The smoke and disruption will be embarrassing for Hydro if this is another cranky vault letting loose. “Hydro vault” explosion on King near Yonge emergency
The 12th annual Neighbours Night Out in Thorncliffe Park, the biggest community event of the year in Thorncliffe Park, will be held on Saturday, July 15, 2017 from 2 to 8 p.m. in the R.V. Burgess Park (main entrance at 46 behind 48 Thorncliffe Park Drive). Neighbours’ Night Out represents a wonderful opportunity for residents, friends and visitors to get together and enjoy a summer afternoon and evening together – accompanied by refreshments, cultural arts and crafts, musical entertainment, games and activities for all ages, bazaar tables, and food prepared by local businesses. This year being Canada’s 150 Anniversary celebration we are pleased to partner with the City of Toronto which is presenting part of the MomenTO program — a Mobile Museum that “pops up” at festival and community events to take the City’s Canada 150 program city wide. The Mobile Museum will feature an interactive presentation of images and artifacts that tell the stories of remarkable people, places and events from Toronto’s past. In addition there will be a two-part stage based session on “Thorncliffe Park and its significance to Canada”, and its flip side: Canada and its significance to the people of Thorncliffe Park. We know Thorncliffe Park has some interesting stories that are significant to the history of Canada and Toronto — Release
Southwest of Don Mills and Lawrence, a new residential development is being proposed at 169 The Donway West. Building on a rezoning and OPA submission to the City of Toronto that dates to 2015, developers Cadillac Fairview and Lanterra are now advancing a new Site Plan Application (SPA) for a 34-storey residential tower, framed by the curve of a cascading mid-rise sibling –– Urban Toronto
An Air Canada plane with 140 people on board came within 30 metres of crashing onto two of four planes lined up to take off at San Francisco International Airport last week, according to a preliminary report Canadian air safety regulators released Thursday.
Geoff Kettel has written to remind everyone of the official re-opening of the historic houses at Todmorden Mills on Saturday, July 15 from noon to 4 p.m. The site is at 67 Pottery Road off the Bayview extension. All are welcome. The free celebration will include performances by the Alias Dance Project and musician Mike Ford, an Invitation to the Spirit by Jacqui Lavalley, as well as heritage food sampling, crafts for kids, and, of course, tours of the recently restored historic houses.
Karen Kuldys of Winnipeg says she is just sick about the officiating at tonight’s Winnipeg-Toronto game after an interference call invalidated an Argo touchdown returned from the kickoff. It would have been the second such return in the game and that is all the rules of the Safeway grocery game required for Kuldys to get the million. But no. Fans are furious. Bomber Ryan Lankford took the opening kickoff 105 yards for a score and Argonaut Martese Jackson followed that up with another one late in the second quarter. But just as Jackson crossed the goal line after 109 yards, out came a penalty flag. The game was played in Winnipeg and ended Bombers 33, Argos 25.
Canadian Press is saying the federal food inspection agency has backed off a decision to deny Israeli wine access to markets here because the grapes were grown in the west bank. The wine, made by the Psagot and Shiloh wineries, is labelled Product of Israel. The agency has now explained that it had not fully considered the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement when dealing with the matter. Under the agreement, Israel refers to any territory where the country’s customs laws are applied. The reversal also comes after vigorous complaints from Jewish groups and the embassy of Israel.
There was lively play on all the tennis courts at Davisville Park Thursday evening. There was an engaged gallery as well for several of the matches from the heights looking south from Millwood Road.
“Gimme some justice and I’ll take it in cash” is the righteous demand of Canadian society as seen this week on both sides of the 88 Leaside bus. The wallpaper ads for Diamond and Diamond personal injury lawyers are hard to miss.
