The Toronto Animal Services’ Chip Truck to provide free microchips at Woofstock this weekend The truck will be at the Woofstock event at Woodbine Park, located at 1695 Queen St. E. on Saturday, May 27 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday, May 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Residents whose pets have an up-to-date licence can get a microchip at no cost courtesy of PetSmart Charities of Canada. Pets without a licence will receive $10 off the regular fee of $25 for cats and $35 for dogs Release here
As many as 24 Coptic Christians have been slaughtered by gunmen in Egypt. The men, women and children were on their way to a shrine. Christians make up ten percent of the population of Egypt, the largest such minority in the middle east. CNN Elsewhere, a flying car plunged through the wall of a home in Milwaukee some four feet off the ground. Amazing. And the woman to the right is getting a micro-current facial, small jolts of electricity to improve the skin. We wonder. And finally, video of the Best of Donald Trump’s Worst Moments.
City Council has voted 27 to 17 against a motion brought by Councilor John Campbell (Ward 4) to withhold $260,000 in annual funding to Pride Toronto. The motion asked for this defunding unless Pride permitted uniformed police officers to march in the annual parade. The results reveal a Council divided in what some might call logic. Kristin Wong-Tam (Ward 27) argues that the ban on police uniforms is “inclusive.” Others appear to have followed a political strategy of keeping peace with the LGBTQ community and perhaps Black Lives Matter. Those in favor of defunding consider the Pride ban a rejection of the police “as police” and an insult to City employees. Locally, Josh Matlow voted to sustain the funding while Jon Burnside, Jaye Robinson and Christin Carmichael Greb voted to suspend it.
Hackers have apparently demanded ransom from Bell Canada for unspecified information after the theft of 1.9 million email addresses and approximately 1,700 names and phone numbers. Bell Canada told Reuters that a demand was made but it did not pay. Further to this, the CBC now says that it has been in contact with hackers by “encrypted chat” and has been told that a demand for $50,000 was made. The CBC story says the hackers claimed to be roaming Bell servers pretty much at will. Even after the breach was revealed, the hacker claimed to still have access to Bell servers, and to have stolen additional data that could still be leaked — in particular, “all passwords for Bell customers.” They were unable to offer any proof ofthis however.
The J J Davis Store in 1900, operated by Jack and Charles Davis
Davisville is named after John Davis and his family. John came to Canada from England at age 27 in 1840. The J J Davis Store was built in 1894 by the Davis family. A general store and post office was operated by Jack and Charles Davis, grandsons of John Davis. In later decades it became home to other retail stores and is now Starbucks at the corner of Yonge St and Davisville Ave.
This Davisville Village “Did you know…” brought to you by the SERRA Heritage Working Group.
Josh Matlow (Ward 22) and Jon Burnside (Ward 26) collaborated at City Hall Thursday to declare the beginning of the annual food drive which is headed up by Leaside sisters Sarah and Claire Jordan. As well, the sisters and mom Linda Dubono were interviewed on the CBC. Have a listen and remember to give, okay?
A happy turnout of 400 kids (just look at the faces) participated in the Canadian Tire Jumpstart Games event at Eglinton Park Thursday. The Toronto Raptors mascot, the Raptor, helped welcomed everyone to the third annual such games. Senior Vice President of Talent at Canadian Tire Corporation, Jane Nakamachi and Regional Manager of Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities, Lori Gagnon were there to welcome the participants.
Monday is the beginning of Bike to Work Month with the annual ride downtown starting at either Don Mills and Lawrence at 6.15 a.m. or Laird and Eglinton at 6.45 a.m. Riders will head across Eglinton with Police accompaniment, then down Yonge, picking up people all along the way, and head down to City Hall There’s a free pancake breakfast to be had with hundreds of other riders. http://www.bikemonth.ca/biketo
RioCan, the real estate investment firm that owns key properties in Midtown and South Bayview, has sold half of its ownership in Sunnybrook Plaza to Vancouver-based developer, Concert Real Estate Corporation for $26.3 million. Concert describes itself as wholly-owned by union and management pension plans. No names are evident in the website summary however. The two firms will collaborate on the redevelopment of Sunnybrook, Canada’s oldest strip mall, into a high-rise residential and ground-floor commercial complex. Work is likely to begin after the turn of the decade, when the Crosstown LRT is finished. Sunnybrook has stood as a neighborhood business centre and landmark since its opening in 1951. A recent historic decision relating to the plaza is the departure of the CIBC branch this summer to a location on Bayview north of Eglinton. CIBC and its predecessor, the Canadian Bank of Commerce, has had a branch at Sunnybrook since opening day 66 years ago. More
The Ontario Ministry of Health has posted a notice online asking for reaction to a regulatory change that would permit a new online option for health card renewals. This seems like such a straightforward convenience the idea of a survey seems a bit odd. Those renewing cards have to visit a Service Ontario office with the exception of children younger than 15-and-a-half and most seniors over 80, who can renew their cards by mail.
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Residents of Moore Park and a large chunk of Davisville Village have had power restored after a blackout that lasted from 1 to about 6 p.m. It was caused by the failure of equipment at a substation near Eglinton Ave West and Duplex Ave. During the blackout Toronto Hydro had estimated the outage would last until 9 p.m. The lights went out at a moment or two after 1 p.m. Then they came back on for five or six seconds before going out for good. The Hydro guess of an eight-hour blackout during merely wet weather in May took a long time to form. It wasn’t until after 4 p.m. that Hydro made that guess but in the end, it was able to shorten the inconvenience. The outage enveloped all of Moore Park east of Mt. Pleasant down to the shore of pre-historic Lake Iroquois. It leaped over Mt. Pleasant Cemetery to cover Merton, Balliol and Davisville as far west as Mt. Pleasant, according to the power company’s outage map. Bennington Heights was spared. The blackout was hit and miss up the west side of Bayview. Many places were still receiving power. The optometrist Vizio and The Bagel House had power while the LCBO, Bonnie Byford Real Estate and McSorley’s did not. It was quirky business.
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Bayview Extension CLOSED south of River st due to flooding #922516— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) May 25, 2017
Flooding on the southern portion of Bayview Extension #TOflood pic.twitter.com/57teThy1a0
— CityNews Toronto (@CityNewsTO) May 25, 2017
Swath of Lake Shore Boulevard and Bayview Extension closed after flooding https://t.co/WWOe6NUoUW pic.twitter.com/HpaAjG9Clm
— CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) May 25, 2017
