The Leaside Community Blood Donor Clinic takes place on Wednesday, April 5 from 2 to 7 p.m. at Northlea Public School, 305 Rumsey Rd. This is the time to make your visit efficient by calling to book an appointment. 1-888-2 DONATE: 1-888-236-6283 or visit www.blood.ca.
Airline pilot Miroslav Gronych, the drunk captain of a Sunwing flight to Cancun, has been sentenced to eight months in jail in Calgary. He pleaded guilty last month to having care and control of an aircraft while he had a blood alcohol level that was three times the legal limit. Previous
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NOW online has published a loving description of Davisville Junior Public School by Richard Longley in which he argues that it should be saved rather than demolished. Parents want it replaced with a modern school which would be safer, more comfortable, include a local community centre and easily accommodate more children. These are the reasons why the Toronto District School Board intends to tear down DPS. It is described by Mr. Longley as a striking example of mid-century modern style. The architect saw such buildings, says Longley, as “launch pads into a brave new world for children of the baby boom.” Well that was then. Today people like Davisville principal Shona Farrelly are more concerned that primary kids will launch themselves through the gaps between the open stairs Parents and educators in 2017 think of Davisville School as a woefully self-indulgent expression of the Hall-Dennis era. That’s the feel-good movement which created a generation of Ontario children who couldn’t spell. The embarrassingly named “playful windows” are tiny bits of fun which permit almost no ventilation. They’re simply stupid. Nothing personal to our playful architects.
People may wish to take what caution they can to protect known areas of flooding in the period from Tuesday to Friday. The forecast rainfall is published by the Weather Network
Ten tenants at the apartment building at 42 Glen Elm Avenue are facing eviction because they refuse to accept an offer to move their storage lockers to a nearby building (plus a $25 reduction in rent) so that the landlord can proceed with an expansion at the midtown building. It sits at the end of Glen Elm, east off Yonge Street near Alvin Ave north of St.Clair. The CBC story says many of the tenants accepted the landlord’s offer. But the ten are being summoned to the Landlord and Tenant court and may be evicted.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms in Alberta has warned the Nova Scotia Registrar of Motor Vehicles that it will face “legal steps” if it doesn’t reinstate Lorne Grabher’s personalized license plate by Thursday (April 6). Grabher, and his father before him, had the plate for decades before it was seen by a woman who made a complaint that it offended her. The Nova Scotia government agreed that the plate could be seen as a socially unacceptable slogan. In its letter, the Justice Centre said that decision was “an affront to the dignity of Canadians, and particularly those Canadians who are not of Anglo-Saxon descent.” Justice Centre president John Carpay said the decision represented “pandering to an unreasonable complaint.” He said the cancellation perpetuated misunderstanding, subverted the dignity and heritage of Lorne Grabher and many other Canadians and that it violated the freedom of expression protected by the Charter. Previous
Donald Trump has talked about “dealing with North Korea” if the Chinese are unable or unwilling to do so. This comes a few days before President Xi Jinping meets with Trump in Florida. It may be an empty threat but this CNN report says that if the US put sanctions on Chinese companies that do business with both the US and North Korea, the Chinese would feel it. To the right, the CBC has talked to the Filipino girlfriend of Robert Hall, one of two Canadians beheaded by ISIS last year in the remote jungle hideaway of this bloodthirsty gang. The Canadian government made a lot of noise at the time about hunting down the knife-wielding killers, but nothing much has been done it seems. Below that, Brexit is causing Spain to talk about reclaiming Gibraltar. That has some MPs recalling the Margaret Thatcher invasion of the Falkland Islands after Argentina grabbed them away in 1982. And Christians in Iraq have returned to a church where ISIS used the courtyard for a firing range. Worse than Islamophobia, it seems.
A man from the interior of British Columbia is selling a 5-acre property which is home to 340 vintage cars at Tappen on Shuswap Lake about 300 kilometres east of Vancouver. Michael Hall began collecting cars 40 years ago. He remarks wryly that for the $1.45 million dollar list price, a condo owner in Vancouver can sell his place and come to Tappen with money to spare, plus get a lifetime of work on old cars. The five-acre listing comes complete with a renovated home, property zoned for auto salvage, a 900-square-foot restoration shop, a 1,200-square-foot steel building and the 340 vintage cars ready to be restored. Hall has been getting about 15 inquiries a day.
Donations are pouring in to help a family of five who lost most of their belongings in a fire Friday afternoon on Coxwell Avenue between Currie and Earl Haig Avenues. Next door to the home where the fire started, the Rogers family had the roof of their home as well as all of the contents of their bedrooms destroyed by smoke, fire and the water. As told by Joanna Lavoie of the Beach Mirror, community members and friends have come forward in droves to help the fire family, who did not have contents insurance, with donations of clothing as well as cash to help them with their basic needs. “I am very overwhelmed with people’s generosity,” family friend Jane Somers told the Mirror. She put a call out for assistance on a few local Facebook groups. There is a GoFundMe page as well.
It’s a theme known to many journalists. Is it really right for people whose work has no purpose but to tell the truth to engage in practical jokes on their readers? Kathy English
Global News and Corus Radio had celebrity personnel at three Longo’s stores Saturday — including Leaside Village — to cheer on customers making donations to April Foods Day. For sure. The proceeds went to Corus Feeds Kids and the Daily Bread Food Bank.
The Peewee A Leaside Wildcats have defeated the Lake Shore Lightning 4 to 2 to become gold medal winners at the Lower Lakes Female Hockey League Championship Weekend at York University. The Wildcats pulled a sensational game out of their hockey bags to take top honours. The 11 and 12 year-old Cats were 2-1 underdogs to the Lake Shore squad which swept preliminary games 3-0. But the Wildcats won decisively in the championship match Saturday night at the Canlan York2 arena.
