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Three people were hospitalized from a fire Terragar Blvd. in Mississauga Monday afternoon. They are said to be in stable condition. It’s possible one was a firefighter. The one-alarm fire was reported at 2:33 p.m. and was knocked down within an hour. Its cause has not yet been determined, both police and fire officials say.
Urban Toronto online notes the “new, glassier cladding—including curved glass at the corners” at 1133 Yonge St at Shaftsbury Ave. The largely commercial building will now have more than 6,000 sq ft to retail use. Tenants have yet to be announced but there might a restaurant with a 750 sq ft outdoor patio on the second level in addition to the street-fronting retailers on Yonge
This crumpled vehicle got the worst of it when a driver misjudged things and hit the median on the DVP at Eglinton Ave.Sunday night about 10 p.m. A woman in her 40s was taken to hospital and will recover from her injuries, police say.
The new Tourism Toronto ad is an engaging exercise in teasing Americans with the view that many things — if not exactly everything — goes in this big friendly City. We have flashes of leg at a downtown corner, the geese overhead at the Eaton Centre, some gymnastics on the subway that you’re not likely to actually ever see, LGBTQ flash frames, sizzling woks to make your mouth water and much more. Views are different and business is business.
The Earth Hour weekend of March 25 and 26 will see two days of activity at St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church at 1399 Bayview Ave. Saturday morning Archbishop Fred Hiltz will be the keynote speaker at the kickoff to an Environment Fair in Lamb Hall. That’s at 10 a.m. with the fair running from 11 to 2. The church says there will be more than 20 exhibits including government, private business and advocacy groups. MP Rob Oliphant and Ward 22 Councillor Josh Matlow will also speak. There will be activities for children and youth, with food available for purchase. Then in the evening, Earth Hour will be marked between 8:30 and 9:30 in the church
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On Sunday at 8 a.m. Archbishop Hiltz will conduct a quiet celebration using traditional language and children’s programming. At 10 a.m. there will be a music-filled family-friendly celebration in contemporary language followed by socializing with coffee, tea and a light snack.
We sweep the Internet to find entries for our Sunday Choice video theatre bill of fare. There’s just no turning away from the Icelandic rescue cats as they romp through their online home. Be prepared for more than a few cat double entendres. To the right of that, a few fine sled dogs are seen in this video from the start of the annual Iditarod race in Anchorage. Below, Nintendo is out with its new console called Switch, celebrated by some as a “truly innovative product that has the ability to literally switch between play modes”. And finally, Orville Rogers and David Hemphill met recently in Indianapolis in a 60 metre dash. Rogers, 99, beat Hemphill, 92, in this popular Internet offering.
Barricades now enclose the road pavement on the southeast corner of Eglinton East and Bayview Ave. The arrival of this walled off area may telegraph the excavation of Eglinton Ave for construction of the Leaside Station. Leaside is one of the stations where Metrolinx warned the public that there would be digging with the open cut covered by planks. Reader Angela Rickett writes to say that the one-lane north and south at the intersection has caused the TTC to move the 11 Bayview bus stops “half way up the hill.” Virginia Lennox Kelly adds tartly: “This phase of construction, and the current barrier pattern, will last 10 months. Get used to it.” Sounds right. Must be why Metrolinx has set a public meeting set for Tuesday night in the Lea room at the Leaside Arena. See you there.
The annual meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC) has begun at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People this Sunday. And you may be sure that it is nothing at all like the first day of Parliament in Ottawa. There will be no opposition motions of non-confidence, no tricky questions for the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition — what on earth is that? The People’s Congress (so-called) is appointed by the inside power-brokers of the Politburo of the Communist Party. They giveth and taketh away membership in the Congress. It has no authority whatsoever in law. But it is necessary because the oligarchy that rules China understands it is a good idea to listen to ordinary people. It remains true however, 2017 and all that notwithstanding, that ordinary citizens of China don’t get to vote for dogcatcher. Thought you might like to know.
Police from nearby 55 Division knew what to do when they looked through the window of a stopped taxi at Coxwell Ave and Dundas Street to see a baby being born. “I just walked up to the passenger side and looked in the back window and sure enough there was a woman lying on the back seat,” PC Colin McLaughlin told the CBC. Right behind him was Staff Sergeant Kim O’Toole, a 22-year veteran of the TPS with a long list of academic and administrative distinctions to her name (bio). Seeing the baby’s head, O’Toole told the woman to push some more. That was all it took. The baby came out and within a second or two was wailing. It began when a call came in to 55 division that an expectant woman was on her way to the station at 101 Coxwell for help.. The two officers went outside and saw the stopped taxi.
Michelle Holland (Ward 35) has done a service to ordinary taxpayers by taking issue with the vague nature of money collected by the City from developers and just how it is spent. It appears these enormous wallops of cash, currently amounting to more than a quarter of a billion dollars, are stashed in piggy banks within the wards where development has occurred. As the linked story by Sue-Anne Levy of the Sun makes clear, some wards have millions of dollars to spend, others have none. Holland’s Scarborough ward couldn’t generate a penny’s-worth of such Section 37 and Section 45 dollars. Kristin Wong-Tam’s glass-tower wonderland known as Ward 27 has nearly $64 million on hand. It makes no sense but as is often the case, human nature is at its worst when it comes to sharing. The case may be made that dense wards with intense commercial activity have special problems. But it cannot mean that the larger community is deprived of benefit from what is, in the end, just another form of taxation. Toronto Sun
Leasider Nicholas Mitchell has written on the Chit Chat Facebook Page about the new Chinese restaurant at 220 Laird Drive, the premises occupied for so long by Leonard’s. It is called Tao and specializes in Northern Chinese Cuisine. The owner was out Saturday night when The Bulldog dropped in but staff say that while the emphasis is on northern recipes there are dishes for other tastes as well. They recommend the Peking Duck. Spicy fare in Szechuan style is also to be had. Mr. Mitchell is a seasoned China hand as well from the signature photo on his own Facebook page which shows him in front of the Terra Cotta Army warriors at the splendid historic site in the northern City of Xi’an.
