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Cadillac Fairview has unveiled its design for a new pedestrian bridge across Queen Street, tying CF Toronto Eaton Centre to Hudson’s Bay and Saks Fifth Avenue flagship locations. Work is expected to begin immediately with a target opening of this fall. Prior to installation, the bridge will be built beside the shopping centre on James Street and then lifted into place upon completion. The architectural company WilkinsonEyre was selected as the designers of the bridge. “We designed the bridge’s form to connect together the two inherent geometries of each building, transforming from the historical, circular arches of the Hudson’s Bay and Saks Fifth Avenue building to the modern rectangular geometry of CF Toronto Eaton Centre,” director at WilkinsonEyre Dominic Bettison said in the news release.

Thrilling overtime win for Minor Atom Leaside Flames

The Minor Atom Leaside Flames Red team won their NYHL Tier 1 Championship Final in a thrilling 5-4 overtime victory over the Vaughan Rangers Sunday at Leaside Gardens Sunday night. The game featured a remarkable comeback by the Flames who trailed the Rangers 3-0 more than halfway through the game. As reader Graham Shirley reports, the home team launched a scoring rampage to take a 4-3 lead but Vaughan managed to tie things up with five minutes remaining in the third. The boisterous crowed erupted when Nicholas Nekic scored the game winner nearly 6 minutes into overtime and the kids enjoyed their celebration on the ice. Congratulations to all in a game of which both sides can be proud. Minor Atom kids are nine and under.

The screaming and shouting aboard that United flight from Chicago to Louisville has caught the attention of many indignant people. Why was the passenger treated the way he was? Unfortunate as it was, there’s a reason. United had to clear seats for staff who were being shifted to Louisville to crew a later flight. If they didn’t go, the flight would have to be cancelled. It is standard stuff. And so is the method used to find space on a plane when it is overbooked. The police (not airline staff) handled the passenger the way they treat anyone who refuses to do what is asked. They forcibly removed him. Some will say his behaviour bears on a temper tantrum.

Toronto and Southern Ontario escaped the most foreboding part of Monday’s special weather statement — the chance of April hail. None fell. But  the rumbling thunder was impressive (below). Rain continues through Monday night towards a sunny Tuesday as predicted by the Weather Network.

Thunder rocking south Bayview! https://t.co/pXu5A5akW4 #Davisville #Leaside #Bayview&Millwood #stormTO pic.twitter.com/1hihNV3sRx

— SBayview (@SBayview) April 10, 2017

LIVE NOW: Canada, U.S. & Mexico expected to announce joint bid for 2026 World Cup, on TSN1 & TSN3. pic.twitter.com/ukpxDsZ5AQ

— TSN (@TSN_Sports) April 10, 2017

Toronto Animal Services will hold a “resident information session” tonight beginning at 6 p.m. at East York Civic Centre 850 Coxwell Ave. Toronto Animal Services meeting in April to discuss coyotes  Woman’s cat attacked by coyote

Ford is rolling out its new gas-electric police car called the Responder. It says a department can save $3,900 a year with the vehicle by using the battery to, among other things, run lights and siren. How many police cars in Toronto? In Wisconsin, a manhunt is on for Joseph Jakubowski, 32, a deeply disturbed and armed man on a mission to kill. Scary time down there. And then Zoe Saldana, who is 38 already, is now enshrined in wax at Madame Tussaud’s in Hollywood. And in London, they’re refurbishing Big Ben, the Tower Clock at Westminster which seems to have forever taken the name of one its big bells (Ben).

Dig we must for a better Toronto. Some of the sewer pipes to be replaced are more than 100 years old. The details are on the City of Toronto release. Here are the main jobs announced this morning.

• demolition of the eastbound ramp from the Gardiner Expressway to York/Bay/Yonge Streets and building a new ramp at Lower Simcoe Street
• watermain work, TTC streetcar track replacement and road resurfacing on Wellington Street from Church Street to York Street
• TTC track replacement, watermain work and road resurfacing on Dundas Street from Yonge Street to Church Street
• road resurfacing on Birchmount Road from McNicoll Avenue to Steeles Avenue East
• road resurfacing and watermain work on Don Mills Road from north of Lawrence Avenue to Wynford Drive
• road resurfacing on Burnhamthorpe Road from Dundas Street West to Martin Grove Road
• road resurfacing on Lake Shore Boulevard from Leslie Street to Woodbine Avenue
• bridge rehabilitation work for Queensway Bridge over the Humber River, and
• TTC track work at the intersection of Queen Street and McCaul Street.

Power is has been restored to an estimated 7,600 customers of Toronto Hydro inside the general boundaries of Bayview Ave to Victoria Park Ave. and St.Clair Ave E to the 401. Hydro One, the supplier, had tweeted that it lost 75 megawatts of power which appeared to be the cause of the outage. Power remained on in Leaside but was off at Global News on Barber Greene Road

We're working in the dark here at @globalnewsto #darkto pic.twitter.com/2N21p0m0Ak

— Simon Ostler (@SimonOstler) April 10, 2017

Canadians wade ashore at Juno Beach

The prime minister and his family have visited Juno Beach where thousands of Canadians landed in France on D-Day — June 6, 1944. He said he hoped the international community would not repeat the “terrible mistakes” of the past. Unlike the US bloody experience at Omaha Beach on D-Day, Canada’s army was able for the most part to wade and walk ashore. It was still a costly day however with nearly 350 deaths recorded.

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