Watch cars swallowed by sinkhole as rain drenches LA

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A sinkhole outside Studio City in Hollywood has swallowed two cars. The video is quite educational. This as Los Angeles gets a drenching unseen in as much as ten years.

2 hurt in “gas blast” on 9th floor of Parkdale apartment

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Special Saturday kicks off promising Family Day weekend

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Outside Starbucks
Record welcome
South Bayview Saturday

It was a stunning Saturday in February to kick off the Family Day weekend in South Bayview. Shoppers strolled the street and old friends embraced in — yes — 12 degree weather. The rest of the weekend also looks good as does the week ahead. Saturday’s sun and record-breaking mild temperatures had people — a few — wearing shorts. The high reached 12 C in Toronto, surpassing the old record of 10.8 in 2011. A high of 10 C is forecast for Sunday, a couple of degrees below the record of 12.5 C set in 1994. Check the full weather forecast here.

 

Selfie stick, sneaky interactive doll find digital downside

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A Toronto man, Wayne Fromm, invented the Selfie Stick but he’s having a hard time policing the patent. And then, in Europe the Internet of Things comes in the form of a sweet doll who can be hacked to get into your child’s head, reporting back heaven knows what to whomever wants it. It’s 2017, didn’t you know?

2 hurt, 1 critical when pickup ploughs into bridge abutment

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Two men were taken to hospital following a pickup truck crash in south Etobicoke after the vehicle ploughed into the abutment of an overpass.  Paramedics say a man in his 30s suffered critical injuries after a pickup crashed into a bridge underpass on Kipling Avenue near New Toronto Street around midnight. The second occupant of the vehicle suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries.

Tour of stained glass windows at Leaside United Church

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Leaside United Church was inviting any who may care to attend to a meeting of the group known as Spirit Alive today (Saturday, February 18) at the church at 10:30 a.m. (until 12:30). David Phillips “will lead a mindful tour of the magnificent stained glass windows situated in the chancel” of the church at McRae Dr. and Millwood Rd. All are welcome.

Leaside’s Andy Elder ribbed about his marbled ribeyes

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Marbled

On his Faebook page, Andy Elder of the meat shop Grill Time on Laird Drive, posts from Arizona (where he is vacationing) that his USDA ribeyes prepared Friday were perfectly marbled. Maybe, said friends, but were they sufficiently marbled? Facebook

“Iser” lost as coyotes interrupt walk at Sunnybrook Park

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Coyotes at Sunnybrook Dog Park

Gina Storm Grant has posted pictures of coyotes at Sunnybrook Dog Park, a frequent sight. She writes that the coyotes are seen “ironically behind the fence that says beware of dog. When (in) actuality dog should beware of them.” Her friend “Stormy” decided he was going to bark at the coyotes which got their attention. This caused Gina to retreat but in so doing she lost dog Iser (again). She adds “This is on the trail that runs from the parking lot behind Sunnybrook to bend in college. We were just by the little beach there.”

Auto Show open at Toronto Convention Centre til Feb. 26

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The Canadian International Auto Show opened Friday at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre. The show runs until a week Sunday. There are more than 1,000 cars on display ranging from new to old. There are stock, electric and classic cars. Proof that everything old is new are the front-opening “suicide doors” familiar on cars of the 1930s seen here on this Nissan Vmotion 2.0 concept. It is part of the company’s plans for zero-emission and autonomous driving models. But the doors, which tend to spill unsuspecting passengers out onto the pavement, probably won’t make it through the road test. CBC  Auto Show

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Teen boy shot in Flemingdon Park taken to hospital

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A young man, probably in his teens, has been shot in Flemingdon Park near Don Mills Road and Gateway Boulevard Friday around supper time. There waa a search for the victim but he was located and taken to hospital. More

Premier blocking any bid to raise taxes, fees says mayor

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Mayor Tory has told a CBC radio morning show host that Premier Wynne is resisting any Toronto tax concept ranging from a sales tax to a gasoline tax.  The mayor is quoted as saying “there hasn’t been a willingness” from the province to have that conversation. “I went forward and asked her about that early on, before I even got to road tolls, and it wasn’t on. They have to give us permission,” Tory told Metro Morning. Unlucky mayor is fighting Ghost of Gas Plants Past. 

Friends may pay respects to Rob Stewart at Humphrey’s

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The family of Robert Brian Stewart will receive friends and admirers of the late filmmaker Friday, February 17, 2017, at the Humphrey Funeral Home A.W. Miles-Newbigging Chapel, 1403 Bayview Ave. at St. Cuthbert’s Rd. from 5  to 7 p.m. The Toronto-born photographer, filmmaker and environmental activist was 37 when he died in a diving accident on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 in the waters off the Florida Keys while filming his new movie, Sharkwater: Extinction. A service for Rob Stewart will be held at Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor Street West on Saturday, February 18th at 1 p.m.  A memorial will also be held in Los Angeles at a later date.  Obituary