New $10 note touches aboriginal, gender and Quebec bases

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The Canadian mint has taken no chances in its design of the 150th anniversary edition of the ten dollar banknote. It touches four bases of ethnic and gender importance. There are likenesses of Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, fellow Father of Confederation (and Quebecer) Sir George-Étienne Cartier, Canada’s first female member of Parliament, Agnes Macphail and James Gladstone, Canada’s first Indigenous senator and a member of the Kainai (Blood) Tribe. CBC

Stink bomb stops service, evacuates Line 1 at Museum Stn.

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Joke shop humour brought the Yonge subway (Line 1) to a halt Friday afternoon during rush hour when someone threw a “stink bomb” smelling like rotten eggs into a car at St. George Station. The device filled the train with stench causing crew and passengers to abandon it a stop later at Museum. One person suffered a minor injury and was treated and released. Service was delayed for about an hour.

Was United passenger carrying a “bomb clock” for fun?

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So much fun to start the alarming ignition count down

It remains unknown just what 58-year-old Joseph Galaska was carrying to Chicago Thursday when he ran afoul of US customs at Pearson airport and landed in jail for carrying a mock bomb. There has been no precise description of what it was but “the bomb” had zero capacity to explode. Except in Galaska’s face. Was it one of the bomb look-a-like alarm clocks that the twisted manufacturers think are such fun? No one is laughing about this escapade, especially the judge who told Galaska he will spend another night in a Mississauga jail cell until his son arrives Saturday to post bail of $5,000.

15-YEAR-OLD CHARGED IN 2015

The charge is mischief. Galaska is required back in court April 10. We know about alarm clock bombs because a 15-year-old was charged with mischief at Pearson in September 2015 when he carried the oh so funny Nootropic Design manufactured  “Defusable Clock.” into customs.

Meeting April 11 at NSS on LRT station in gracious old bank

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So say we all
Re-built bank building keeps 1920 heritage
Who knows?

Metrolinx has scheduled a public meeting for Tuesday, April 11, 2017 on the LRT stop at Eglinton Ave East and Mt. Pleasant. That’s the 1920 bank building which will be rebuilt to accommodate passenger traffic and commercial concessions as well. The elegant former Imperial Bank branch (later CIBC on the merger with Canadian Bank of Commerce) then Second Cup Coffee shop will retain the charming Palladian window over the former front door on the corner. That door will still be there but most of the hordes of train riders will come and go by wide new doors to be installed on Mt. Pleasant. At last word there will be shops including maybe the return of Second Cup. Not sure about that. The building was taken down stone by stone in 2016 and will rise again on a date not too far off. Metrolinx release on the meeting at Northern Secondary School

Cops seek “postman” who takes mail instead of leaving it

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Toronto police are seeking a downtown mail thief who recently struck at an apartment building near Dundas Street West and University Avenue. He allegedly stole mail belonging to residents in the building, and then fled the scene. The man has brown hair that is longer on top of his head and shorter on the sides. He is clean shaven. At the time, he was wearing a black jacket over a tan jacket with a hood, grey pants with black patches on the knees, and black shoes.