Ontario doctors rebuke but fail to fire OMA executive

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Doctors in revolt against their professional body came close but failed to fire the head of the Ontario Medical Association Sunday in a raucous meeting. The meeting did however issue a 55 percent rebuke of no-confidence in the OMA leadership. The drama took place at a meeting of the 260-member governing council of the OMA. But a vote to remove Virginia Walley and her six-member board did not gain the two-thirds majority needed to win. It did however garner nearly 50 peer cent support, a considerable slap at the executive. Many physicians want to engage in some form of job action after the OMA agreed to a salary package with the province that was later rejected by the membership. The OMA represents 29,000 doctors. It warned in December that job action – including moves that could affect patients was on the table. So far the provincial government refuses to submit its talks with doctors to binding arbitration.

Justin Bieber got a taste of Staples Center glass Saturday

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Justin Bieber got a taste of NHL hockey and the Staples Center glass Saturday, courtesy of NHL great Chris Pronger. The pop star responded by showing off skills that would not have looked out of place in his native Canada during a celebrity exhibition game. Bieber was driven into the boards in the first half by a laughing Pronger, who spent 18 years in the league as a hard-nosed defenceman. The singer responded with an empty-net goal and an assist as Team Gretzky beat Team Lemieux 5-3 in the 2017 NHL All-Star Celebrity Shootout. Toronto Sun

Three businesses opening soon in South Bayview area

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Rosedale’s Finest prepared food at 408 Summerhill Ave., the Starving Artist waffle house on Mt. Pleasant Rd. south of Millwood Rd. and Mastek Mobiles and Computers at 465 Manor Rd. They were having a staff meeting at Rosedale’s Finest Sunday because Monday is opening day. This is the creation of Jameson Watermulder, former chief cook at Summerhill Market, just down the street. At the Starving Artist, they say they are hoping to be open in about ten days. Thing are shaping up inside. And Mastek Electronics, which The Bulldog reported on earlier this month, also seems ready go this week.

Canadians with dual citizenship will not be banned from US

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The Trudeau government says it has received assurances that Canadian passport holders will not be caught up in an American travel ban that has barred citizens of seven countries from entering the United States. This apparently includes people who are dual citizens of the seven largely Muslim countries from which immigration to the US is temporarily banned. An email from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office late Saturday said the U.S. has given assurances that Canadians with dual citizenship will not be turned away at the border. It was widely reported earlier that the new US “extreme vetting” rules for citizens of certain Muslim countries applies to Canadians who hold dual citizenship in those lands and would bar them from the US. The realization of this caused Canada to inquire about just what in meant in full. The countries whose citizens are banned for 90 days are Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and Libya. Canada is among the most generous of countries in permitting dual citizenship, a function of its enormous land mass and quite small population. In the US and across the world, people were confused and in some cases very concerned. They arrived in the US only to be interned or sent back to their starting country. Some were on board a plane when the order was signed.

Police looking for person who left $14,000 in bag on TTC

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Toronto police are trying to locate the owner of a reusable grocery bag filled with $14,000 cash after a TTC rider found it on a bus Friday afternoon. Const. Craig Brister, spokesperson for Toronto Police Service, said the bag was found by a rider on the Sheppard bus at 2:30 p.m. and the rider turned it into the TTC driver. Brister said police were able to identify the owner of the money from other documents found in the bag. But police have not been able to reach the person. Brister says there is nothing suspicious about the money being found in this way. “This is not uncommon,” he said. “There are a lot of people who carry cash around with them.” — CBC

East York Runners kicking up their heels today

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A brave bunch, in our opinion. Good work gang!

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Credit card, loose leg irons part of hospital escape riddle

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Justin Yates
Where did he get this?
How did he get out?

Justin Yates, the violent criminal who slipped out of Toronto General Hospital Thursday, used a prepaid credit card to grab a taxi outside TGH.  He didn’t go far — the cab dropped him at Yonge and Dundas. But the mystery of where the card came from remains. Det. Const. Aggrey Koech confirmed that Yates used a prepaid credit card to pay for a cab he hailed outside the hospital during his getaway — which involved somehow ridding himself of leg irons. Koech said he had “no idea” how Yates — escorted by two guards to the hospital — was able to get his hands on the card. He told the Toronto Sun that nothing points to Yates having help, but that possibility remains under investigation.

 

Young man suffers leg wound in 3 a.m. shooting downtown

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Toronto on a January morning is just as likely to deliver a young man shot in the leg as it is a drifting of snow. Maybe more likely. Saturday the City has both. Police say the incident occurred outside the Thomson Diner at 550 Wellington West near Bathurst. There are no other details. Officers would very much appreciate hearing from witnesses if any.

HMV in bankruptcy, remaining stores to close April 30

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Those were the days
Eaton Centre
Hot music values

The remainder of the HMV retailing company left in Canada has declared bankruptcy. The firm has been shrinking for years. There are three stores left in Toronto and they will close April 30. The location which HMV had in the SmartCentre on Laird is now occupied by Roots Canada. HMV stands for hot music values but, as is well known, that business vanished with the arrival of the Internet. HUK 10 Ltd. the firm’s British parent had lent money to the Canadian subsidiary but no payment had been forwarded since 2014, court was told in an  application Thursday. It said HMV owed $39 million and would require between $2 million and $5 million annually in cash to stay open.and the company was losing $100,000 a day as customers turned towards online media in recent years. Senior Justice Geoffrey B. Morawetz approved the application and appointed Gordon Brothers Canada ULC and Merchant Retail Solutions ULC as the agent to sell HMV’s remaining merchandise. HMV Wikipedia

 

Postmedia CFO Doug Lamb to leave firm at end of February

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Douglas Lamb, the chief financial officer for Postmedia Network will leave newspaper chain at the end of February. Late last year he was identified as one of five senior executives eligible for a bonus of about $450,000. It’s not clear if this is addition to severance. .Postmedia, like all newspaper operations, is struggling with declining advertising. It has executed several buyout and lay off reductions of staff.

 

British PM sweetens White House visit with Bakewell tarts

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We don’t know what Theresa May really thinks of Donald Trump but the two of them got along like a house on fire Friday at the White House. On the plane over the Atlantic May seemed to slip slightly with a jocular comment that opposites attract. We will never know what that really means. But with a decorated china cup and a box of Bakewell tarts in hand as gifts, the British Prime Minister began a historic political gambit. The two leaders agreed that the UK and the US do indeed have a “special relationship” and are going to get along well.




MAYOR: “Stop treating me like a boy in short pants”

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Mayor Tory responded angrily today to the Premier’s decision to reject road tolls saying it is time she stopped treating the City — and him — “like a boy in short pants.” He blasted Kathleen Wynne’s rejection on the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway calling her decision “short-sighted” and “not right.” He called the Premier’s option to extend more gasoline taxes to municipalities inadequate. No new source of revenue as Wynne rejects road tolls.