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
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.
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.
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
Jennifer Pagliaro of the Star’s City Hall bureau posts this view of the hole getting dug at the 99 Broadway towers site in Yonge-Eglinton Centre and observes that the house on the corner, and its residents, are still hanging in. Not everyone’s idea of life in Midtown.
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The Toronto Fire Service active incidents review shows this call as a child birth on Mt. Pleasant Rd. between Stibbard Ave. and Sheldrake Blvd.
Another productive meeting with my friends at @SERRAtoronto today. We're working together for our South Eglinton/Davisville neighborhood.
— Josh Matlow (@JoshMatlow) April 6, 2017
There’s lots to talk about in this development pressure-cooker of a neighbourhood.
These pictures of last Wednesday night’s event honouring George Turrell are posted by the Leaisde Wildcats. Wynne honours long-time Leaside volunteer George Turrell
The current (April 2017) issue of Carol Eby’s magazine Neighbours of Leaside and Bennington Heights profiles Jay and Mallory Carmichael. He is the Director of Business Development and Operations at Holland Bloorview Kids Hospital on Kilgour Road. Mallory is employed in pharmaceutical sales. Their journey to happy parenthood has a fairy tale twist for the 21st Century. They needed and got assistance from the Anova Fertility and Reproductive Clinic on Sheppard Ave. West. The couple spent some two years of trial and error with prescription, injection and finally vitro fertilization pursuing a pregnancy. Their wonderful child Cooper Carmichael is evidence of their success and good fortune. If you don’t get Neighbours of Leaside and Bennington Heights, try to borrow it for the read. Photos by Mallory Carmichael and Storey Wilkins Photography
Don Rickles has died at the age of 90. This profile from CNN reveals a little known fact that he was discovered by Frank Sinatra. In Florida, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will meet over the weekend. Both men arrived there today and the agenda begins with North Korea. Below that, a young Canadian is in prison in Algeria and some may say there’s good reason. He is one of the so-called Calgary Cluster of young guys radicalized at a mosque in the Alberta cow town. Finally, Russia is mourning the dead in the St Petersburg subway bombing.
The Toronto Island bicycle rental concession, a servicce known to and used by hundreds of thousands of tourists and locals over the years, will close this month. It is selling off all its bikes, including the canopied two and four-seater units.The owners have received notice from the City that the franchise has gone to a new operator. CBC
