Police have released video from a private system showing the vehicle that fled the scene of an accident that sent a 60-year-old man to hospital from Carlaw and Riverdale Aves. Wednesday. They say the white commercial van was heading north on Carlaw and made a right hand turn at Riverdale. Remarkably, as the story is told, it somehow managed to get all the way across the roadway to the north sidewalk where the man was waiting to cross. Following the collision, police said the driver failed to remain at the scene. The vehicle involved was last seen travelling eastbound on Riverdale Avenue heading towards Pape Avenue. The victim was taken to hospital with serious injuries. The vehicle is described as a light-coloured GMC or Chevrolet cargo-style van, with front-end damage from the collision.
Toronto’s Dominion Public Building has sold for $275.1 million to Larco Investments Ltd. and many expect the private real estate firm from Vancouver to re-fashion it into a high-rise commercial and residential building. Under heritage protection all or much of the building would have to be saved. The 1930 building at 1 Front St. W. between Yonge and Bay Sts. dates from the days of Canada’s emergence from Imperial control into a nation-state Dominion. As seen above, the multi-purpose structure was intended to inspire pride. Most cities had one. The Dominion Public Building in Hamilton has been restored into a showplace as the courthouse. The beaux-arts style building was sold by the Canada Lands Company (CLC), the crown corporation that acquires surplus federal government properties to manage their sale and redevelopment.
A year after Toronto Police first warned the public of a few tricky cab drivers switching debit cards when a fare is making payment, the scam is seeing another outbreak. The proximity with the card owner as payment is made also permits the theft of the PIN number, cops say. The rogue taxi driver secretly keeps the debit card and gives back one that’s similar. Now he can clean out the owner’s bank account. The racket is showing up among different cab companies and different banks. It takes advantage of perhaps intoxicated riders who do not pay enough attention to their business with taxi drivers. Police in 51 Division say there have ten cases in that area in less than a month. More
Donald Trump Friday approved the Keystone XL Pipeline, a project that holds export potential for Canada and the creation of many jobs in both countries. The State Department had previously found that the Keystone was in the US national interest but the then president, Barack Obama, blocked it several times regardless..The 1,180 mile (1,900km) pipeline will carry tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Texas coast. While announcing the approval President Trump called it a “great day for American jobs”. “TransCanada will finally be allowed to complete this long overdue project with efficiency and speed,” Mr Trump said in the White House Oval office, joined by TransCanada officials and contractors. Nine years of TransCanada’s pipeline project
The CBC says a “prominent group of lawyer-cyclists” is asking the Ontario government to intervene with the City to add bike lanes and get rid of cars in the re-make of John Street south from the Art Gallery of Ontario down to Front Street. The minister, Charles Sousa, has said that he can’t interfere, which is sensible of him. He has to listen to that other lobby group of “insignificant manual-laborer motorists.” Cyclists want bike lanes on redesigned section of John Street
Police are hunting for a couple who they claim has defrauded several clients over a period of two years with fake financial investment schemes. They seek the whereabouts of Khurt Comrie, 40, and Collett Comrie, 44, with the last known address of Pickering. They are wanted for fraud over $5,000. The crimes occurred in the name of Keystone Financial Services out of an office in the Warden Avenue/Sheppard Avenue East area Some investors were defrauded of their life savings The office of Keystone Financial Services is closed
Canada may be a land of opportunity, but these days you had better not be insensitive. As a matter of fact, your family name better not be insensitive either. Nova Scotia retiree Lorne Grabher (so sorry about the insensitive name) had his personalized license plate pulled because a woman saw it and complained to the government. Grabher was having a coffee at Tim Hortons in December when friends saw the woman taking a picture of the plate. He’s used to his name grabbing a certain amount of attention, so he didn’t think anything of it. A December 9, 2016 letter from Nova Scotia Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal informed him he couldn’t keep the plate “GRABHER” as someone had complained.
‘SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE”
“Please be advised that the Office of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles has received a complaint about your personalized plate GRABHER. While I recognize this plate was issued as your last name, the public cannot be expected to know this and can misinterpret it as a socially unacceptable slogan,” wrote Janice Harland, registrar of motor vehicles and director of road safety for the province. So there it is. If someone interprets what you do as socially unacceptable the government will step in. Mr. Grabher bought the plate as a surprise for his father’s recreational vehicle on his 65th birthday. On his father’s death in 1991, the plate passed to Lorne’s son, Troy. When Troy went to Alberta three years ago, he handed it to his dad – and the province got his signed permission to let Lorne put it on his vehicle. The younger Grabher’s Alberta GRABHER plate remains on the road in the Wild Rose province.
COME BY CHANCE?
According to the Halifax Chronicle Herald, Grabher’s first call to the Motor Vehicle Branch didn’t get much sympathy. “I told him Newfoundland has names of public places like Come By Chance and Dildo. His response to me was ‘you’re in Nova Scotia, go by our rules,’” Grabher said. After Grabher sent a letter of complaint, a follow-up expressed a trace of sympathy. “I understand this is a unique family name that you are celebrating however, we must use our established guidelines for all personalized plates and our decision to cancel this plate will be upheld,” Harland wrote.
Posts to the Facebook account of Sunnybrook Dog Park Association are complaining about word that the dog bylaw patrol and even police from 53 Division will be working in Sunnybrook Park near the sports field to ticket or maybe, if the owner is lucky, just issue a warning. The park has an off-leash area but apparently dogs run in the field as well. Member Kerry Lynn posted Thursday afternoon: “Heads up. Just got clarification from my partner. Oh yes bylaw will bring in cops if they are having issues bringing people into compliance. Oh hell yes they will.”
