Centrist Emmanuel Macron and right-wing leader Marine Le Pen will face each other in a May 7 runoff for the French presidency after coming first and second in Sunday’s first round of voting, according to multiple projections. Macron, 39, is a comparative political novice who has never held elected office isa seen nonethless as an easy winner over Le Pen.
French people voting in Montreal
via@FranZeller pic.twitter.com/zMVUWWIoiw
— Denis Cosnard (@DenisCosnard)— Idrees Zafar (@izafar84) April 23, 2017
The French Consulate in Montreal said that 57,000 French nationals had registered to vote in the Montreal area in the French presiential election. The video above shows a seemingly never-ending lineup which some say stretched two kilometres, There was one location with several polling stations inside. The election features political forces unlike those seen in other elections. Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron leading the race as polls open
A woman and man are in custody in Edmonton after the discovery of the body of a 20-month old boy near a church on April 18. Police say the body was abandoned there. They has previously released pictures of the two who are said to be in custody seen pushing a stroller at a nearby Sobeys.
Teams of the Leaside Vollyball Club are battling it out at the provincial championships in Kitchener this weekend. Here was see the 12 and under girls striking their battle-action pose in preparation. LVC Facebook has more.
#ThenAndNow Millwood Rd, north to Laird, #Leaside
1928 pic thanks to @TorontoArchives
post office used to be where condo is going up pic.twitter.com/K3wZ5L8tj5— Rudy Limeback (@rudydotca) April 22, 2017
Leasider Rudy Limeback has posted this interesting contrast between Millwood Road in 1928 and 2017. He mentions the site at Millwood and Malcolm Rd. where the Upper House is rising. The property was purchased in 1959 by the government for the Royal Mail to build Station R. Click here to groan at the price paid for the land.
This the last weekend to support the 132nd Leaside Scouts by buying garden supplies for delivery next weekend. Delivery day is Saturday, April 29.
A cyclist was gravely hurt Saturday morning after an incident whose origin is unclear. It happened on Kipling Ave. near Rathburn Road. Police say a driver and the cyclist were both heading north when they got into some sort of “interaction.” The cyclist left the road and slammed into a pole at high speed. The driver kept on going. Police say it is unclear if there was contact or why the cyclist left the road.
The doubtful pleasure of flying is seen in this Facebook video. It’s on a jammed American flight where everybody in the video is overwrought. A male attendant apparently grabbed a stroller away from a woman travelling with two children. We don’t know his story. But the stroller hits, or nearly hits, the woman and one infant in her arms. She is upset and weeping when the video begins. Then a man leaps up and starts to threaten the attendant. The attendant loses it and invites the passenger to fight. Now he’s suspended and American is apologizing (of course). We’re not sure what this proves except that when you jam dozens of men, women and children into a little airplane that has to take off in two seconds, you get a crisis.
This is the weekend to dispose of dead batteries, broken printers, big tube TVs and other forms of worn out electronics. Here we see some of the discarded items taken by the Rotary volunteers at the East York Town Centre station. It is beside the Tangerine Bank temporary building at the west end near the Petro Canada station. By 11 a.m. Saturday, some items has been re-sold to a repair service for $175.
Police are saying this is their suspect in the theft of a much-loved Pomeranian/Shih Tzu dog named Kobe from in front of the McDonalds on Bloor Street near Mt. Pleasant Rd. The man is described as 40-50, medium build, brown hair in a ponytail, wearing an orange shirt, blue jeans, and white running shoes. Also see: Dog stolen, dog lost plus bear and killer whale cuties
Sweepers well-known and well-liked formed up at Bayview Ave. and Millwood Rd. Saturday morning to participate in the Bayview Leaside BIA Spring Sweep the Streets event. The annual clean up saw these volunteers do a thorough job of picking up cigarette butts and other litter, sweeping the gutters and bagging the trash for pickup by the City. On the BIA Facebook page Cecelia Pye writes that the BIA has received a New Horizens Grant for Seniors of $16,000 to further support the Bayview Pixies volunteer gardeners keep the street flowered and beautiful.
The video wheel spins a City News report on a dog stolen from in front of the McDonald’s on Bloor near Mt. Pleasant. We worry about the theft of the wonderful dogs often seen outside Starbucks on South Bayview. Then, Cooper the Labradoodle, a West Jet delivery famously fumbled on his way from Halifax to Deer Lake Nfld. is happily found in Hamilton. All’s well it seems even after an escape at the airport while being walked. Next, a bear cub naming project at the zoo in Columbus, Ohio. There is no denying this bearlet is definitively cute. And in San Antonio a killer whale is born at the Seaworld park.
