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Friday night four young men were at work at the former welding building at 176 Wicksteed Ave. in Leaside’s industrial district making pizzas. This is the same building that has housed Adam Skelly’s successful smoked meat restaurant since early last year. The pizza business is a coupe of months old. Skelly’s friend and business partner Alison Hunt seems to be in the forefront. Ms Hunt was posting on Leaside Community Facebook in recent hours about the overwhelming response to a post June 4 for the pizza place, which is called Conspiracy Pizza.  She says of the enterprise: ” We’re making really tasty pizzas with fun topping combinations. They are all $20-28 for 18″ pies (freakin’ huge).” And indeed, from the response on Leaside Community there is a lot of business to be done.

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A fire in a small noodle bar at 33 Baldwin St. at the junction with Henry St., near Chinatown has been the scene of a smoky fire which eventually rang five alarms. It is now contained. Smoke was seen for miles from the fire which occurred during a busy lunch time. No one appears to have been hurt. The video above was tweeted on the account of @snappedbycam. As many as 40 units filled the narrow street of the old central downtown neighbourhood at the height of the fire.

Ultima Foods has recalled seven Iogo yogurt products because they may contain pieces of plastic. The products include six 93-millilitre Iogo Nano packs of strawberry, raspberry, vanilla and banana drinkable yogurt. They also include one-litre Iogo smoothie protein packs with mango, strawberry-raspberry and strawberry flavours. Ultima triggered the recall and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is now investigating.

Roads downtown and along the waterfront will be closed Saturday to accommodate the 25th annual Toronto Challenge Run and the Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer. Check your route.

Badly weakened but with command of the House of Commons, Theresa May’s Convervatives will hold a voting majority of 328 seats to 308 seats against the combined opposition. Without the Democratic Unionist support, the HOC would be have a combined opposition of 328 against the Conservative caucus of 318.

TTC frontman Brad Ross has said something that rational thinkers know and have insisted on for decades. Buses make far more sense than streetcars. This blasphemy will deeply offend the high priests of Toronto’s state rail religion. It will not go down well with those whose lives revolve around the care and feeding of streetcars. But the TTC is removing trams from the long Queen Street line this summer and putting buses in their place. With buses there are many fewer detours and when they do occur they’re easier. There are no traffic backups, no stalled streetcars and the buses are air conditioned. Oh wait, what about the old chestnut that streetcars carry more people. Of course they do but so what. They are also less frequent because of it and their purchase and upkeep make the cost of buses look like pin money. Here’s what Ross had to say: “You know, it was a bit of a shock to everybody. ‘My goodness, you are removing all the streetcars from Queen. How could you do that?’ Well, frankly, I think this is probably the better option,” he said.

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Hudson’s Bay will cut some 2,000 jobs across North America in a major restructuring.  Cananda’s oldest retailer said the move will help the company save more than $350 million annually. “We know we can do better and we are taking bold decisive action,” Chief Executive Jerry Storch said in a statement. Retail in the Age of Amazon.

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• British Conservatives short of majority, early exit poll suggests 
• Trump administration spread ‘lies, plain and simple,’ Comey says at Senate committee hearing 

A museum opened this week in Springfield, Massachusetts to honour the work of the legendary childrens author Theodor Seuss Geisel. Geisel adopted his “Dr. Seuss” pen name during his university studies at Dartmouth College and the University of Oxford.

The bizarre hit-and-run death on Eglinton West at Black Creek Drive has resulted in charges of manslaughter, impaired driving (over 80mg) and fleeing the scene against Anthony James Kiss, 31, of Wasaga Beach. It happened Wednesday at about 4:45 a.m. when a Jeep Cherokee ploughed into a man as he argued with a woman in the middle of the eastbound lanes of Eglinton west of Black Creek. The Jeep had turned onto Eglinton and headed west in the eastbound lanes, hitting the victim. The driver fled the scene but the vehicle was quickly recovered and a man taken into custody. The dead person is Dario Humberto Romero, 37 of Toronto. The woman with whom he was arguing is 59. She has not been identified and is recovering in hospital.

Six notable Canadians saw their names forever embedded in Toronto sidewalk history on the King Street West Walk of Fame Tuesday. City News.