City News has carried the charming story of how Laura Rojas found and ultimately returned a memory card carrying some 700 family photos to their rightful owners. She found the card on Ossington Ave. probably not far from they were lost by the family member who was archiving them. Audra Brown.
A courageous man writes about black fear of being labeled by other blacks. Terms like “Uncle Tom” and “House Negro” are sadly compelling epithets used by radical blacks. They tend to stick just the way the word “racist” does on a white person regardless of whether it’s baloney. CBC
It was a beautiful night for a baseball game. The 10 and under Leaside Leafs took on East Toronto at Trace Manes Park.
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More than 100 British Columbia RCMP officers put on a spectacular display to help celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday. Dressed in their red tunics, the officers of the Lower Mainland detachment stood shoulder-to-shoulder on North Vancouver’s Capilano Suspension Bridge to create this dramatic tribute. Originally built in 1889, the bridge above the Capilano River stretched 450 feet (137m) across and 230 feet (70m) over the water. Since then it has been much been rebuilt but is still a workout to cross and subject to wind.
Premier Wynne has spoken of her pride at seeing her daughter Maggie Cowperthwaite graduate in the collaborative nursing class of 2017 at Ryerson University. In remarks to the school Saturday Wynne was brimming with pride at the “considerable risk” and “extraordinary determination” of her daughter to return to school at the age of 33 to complete this course. As recorded by Robert Benzie in the Star the Premier avoided politics but revealed the well-known toughness that marks her reign at Queen’s Park. She told the class not to let naysayers bog them down. “There will always be people seeking to exaggerate the dangers of a future we can only guess at. Those who tell us we will have less, share less, feel less secure, that the best days are behind us. They are wrong,” she said.
POLITICAL PARALLEL
Politically aware listeners would not miss the parallel to those in her own party who worry about entering the next election campaign with Kathleen Wynne as leader. “There is no limit to what you can do and say and discover tomorrow, and it doesn’t matter that none of us can see that far forward. We can look back — to when we granted women the vote or created universal health care, or legalized same-sex marriage,” the premier said. “Each time, there were people saying: ‘Those are the rules. They can’t change.’ But the thing is, they already had, because there were people who were so determined to make that change happen,” said Wynne.
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Toronto Police Operations reported a possible hydro vault explosion at Church St and the Esplanade. Those things keep going off it seems. This picture from Hina Alam tweeted at one minute past ten Sunday morning indicates that things are not too crazy.
The Danforth East Community Association (DECA) enormous yard sale was held Saturday in great weather. It was the fifth annual such tribute to homegrown commerce and got a visit from Mayor Tory, seen talking turkey to a householder and merchant on Moberley Ave. Upper left is Janet Davis (Ward 31) with proud father and sweetly dressed up daughters at the Main Square event.
Environment Canada warns of the first “heat event” of the season beginning Sunday. It says temperatures are expected to be near 31 degrees Sunday and Monday with overnight lows near 20 degrees, providing little relief from the heat during this timeframe. It is also possible that these heat conditions will persist into Tuesday. Temperatures will fall below heat warning criteria by the middle of this week. EC offers concern for young children, pregnant women, older adults, people with chronic illnesses and people working or exercising outdoors.
What’s coming next to your favorite fatty food coffee stop as Health Canada ponders a widespread ban on the marketing of unhealthy food to anyone 17 and under. The possible strictures to young hands glomming onto a Honey Cruller are said to include hiding the donuts under the counter or inside a locked cupboard like cigarettes. In addition, you can forget all those ads saying things like “Hey, Canada, Go for the Glazed.” Nope. Kids might see it and (gasp) gobble one down. According to the CBC, which might be more excited about this than The Bulldog, the ban could cover everything from TV, online and print advertising to product labelling, in-store displays and even end some sponsorships for sports teams. The federal government announced the first step in St. John’s Saturday morning by launching public consultations on how foods are marketed to kids in Canada. “Most of the foods that are marketed to kids are these ones that are high in fat, high in sugar, high in sodium, so that’s what we’re looking at,” said Hasan Hutchinson, director general at Health Canada, who is overseeing the consultations. Very nice to know that Canadian humanity is being so well watched.
Adam West has died at the age of 88. West was known to generations of TV fans as the real Batman (and Bruce Wayne). Who is Marie Parie? Why absolutely nobody. But, this clever woman intrigued her way onto the red carpet at Cannes and pretended as if she was woo hoo. A million cameras fell for it. Toronto’s naked bicycle ride has exemption from the indecent exposure statute. And below, a more serious side to this eclectic news bundle, as ABC tells the story of the hot hair balloon pilot hurled out of the basket leaving hapless passengers on their own. Yikes.
