The US has announced it will apply a “political boycott” to the Beijing Olympics. This apparently means that athletes are free to compete even as administration officials stay home. The decision stops short of the full-scale measures seen during the Cold War and at other points in Olympic history. In Ottawa, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has called for Canada to initiate a diplomatic boycott of the games.
Environment Canada has issued a wind warning for Toronto. Gusts may reach 70 to 80 km/h. Meantime, a nasty weather system has thundered by to the southeast of the Golden Horseshoe including Toronto.
Just measured a 85 km/h gust at Crystal Beach. @weathernetwork #ONStorm pic.twitter.com/8XKbYADTmr
— Mark Robinson (@StormhunterTWN) December 6, 2021
Environment Canada said gusts of 70 to 80 km/h are expected Monday afternoon into the evening hours. https://t.co/nztK3F57U8
— Ryan Rocca (@ryan_rocca) December 6, 2021
The City has opened warming centres for the homeless as nighttime temperatures slide well below zero. A release Monday says four centres will open at 7 p.m. at 129 Peter St., 5800 Yonge St., Exhibition Place Better Living Centre 195 Princes’ Blvd. and the Scarborough Civic Centre, 150 Borough Dr. The release says the warming centres will “activate approximately 150 spaces” and that these are “in addition to the 200 new spaces created through the City’s 2021/2022 Winter Services Plan.” It’s not clear from the release where these other 200 spaces are located. Release
Bulldog digital publishing has picked up the printed front page (upper left) showing the executive of the Leaside Heritage Preservation Society. From left to right are Catherina Maughan, Jennifer Avveduto, Ted DeWelles, Patrick Rocca (Vice-Chair), Susan Parr (Secretary), Ann Brown (Chair) Absent: Kennis Kim (Treasurer), Jennifer Hanley and John Lea. At top centre are a couple of lively boxing pooches as captured by Leslieville master photographer Colin Mcconnell. Thanks again, Colin. Top right are members of the Leaside Wildcats Team Red in a public-spirited campaign on behalf of the George Turrell Memorial Food Drive. Thanks to you, ladies. At bottom left, a gang of happy curlers at the Leaside Curling Club. Together again and making us smile. Lastly, the inventive program of voucher shopping from the Mount Pleasant Village BIA.
Toronto Hydro restored power to as many as 1,00o customers in Old East York across the Don Valley from Leaside Sunday evening. Most of the darkness lay across Broadview Ave. The report came in shortly after 9 p.m. This picture of the Hydro Outage Map was current at about 10 p.m.
Fire (transformer/pole) [East York]O'connor Drive @ Stanhope Avenue
Dispatched: 05/12/21 @ 21:05 EST
[Stn: 322] Aerial-322
General Area:— Toronto Fire (@tofire) December 6, 2021
Toronto Fire Service extinguished a single-arm fire in the homeless encampment in Lamport Park at the corner of King St West and Jefferson Ave Sunday. There are no reports of injuries. Lamport Park has seen a large gathering of tents and encampments in recent months. In May, the fire service was called to the same place at 5 a.m. on reports of a fire that caused “screaming and explosions” but no one was treated.
A Mississauga lottery gambler will collect the $8.8 million Lotto 649 jackpot on a ticket drawn Saturday. The second prize of $207,248.90 was sold in Lambton County. A $1-million ticket was also sold in Niagara Region.
The details of how his parents enabled a young man to kill four of his classmates at a Michigan school are almost beyond belief. Among the crushing details is evidence that Jennifer Crumbley told her son, Ethan, that he had to learn not to get caught with his newly-purchased handgun.
Josephine Baker honoured in France
She was a popular feature at the Folies Bergere, a spy for the French resistance and a maternal strength who adopted 12 children. Josephine Baker was also black. Last week she became the first woman of her race to be given the highest civilian honour in France.
Creepy robot reality wakes up in Britain
The subtle humanity in the faces of these British robots is creepy.
MP Rob Oliphant has sent out information about a virtual meeting related to commercial aircraft noise over Leaside and other Midtown neighbourhoods like Moore Park, Rosedale and others. The return to business of Porter Airlines and increased traffic at Pearson Airport is obviously noticeable. Porter’s piston-engine aircraft take off for Ottawa and Montreal over homes and there doesn’t appear to be much altitude. The meeting is on December 6, 2021 at 5 p.m. It is organized by Nav Canada and anyone may sign up to attend. Nav Canada is a privately run, not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates Canada’s civil air navigation system (ANS). It was established in accordance with the Civil Air Navigation Services Commercialization Act (ANS Act).
Toronto Fire has extinguished a fire Friday night on or under the roof of Churrasco Chicken at 254 Eglinton Ave at Mt Pleasant Rd. Many units responded to the two-alarm fire. Personnel had to access the fire from a lane off Mt. Pleasant between the construction site of the new LRT station and the Roehampton Hotel. Mt. Pleasant was closed from Soudan Ave to Roehampton Ave for about three hours but has now reopened. The 34 Eglinton East bus detoured via Redpath Ave, Soudan Ave and Forman Ave.
The Ontario Auditor-General says the government is using a previously little-used land-planning tool to fast-track development and circumvent normal planning processes. An audit by Bonnie Lysyk’s office released Wednesday said the government issued 44 Minister’s Zoning Orders between March 2019 and March 2021, when in the past, about one was issued per year. In 2017 and 2018, there were none. The report said that 17 of the 44 orders were issued to the same seven development groups or companies. Canadian Press at CP24
The City of London, Ontario is reeling in shock and heartbreak after an out-of-control car mounted a sidewalk and struck a group of Girl guides, killing one eight-year-old.
