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Event reminder! The 13th annual Leaside Guys Night Out & Toy Drive is set for Thursday, December 8 at 7:30 p.m. at The Leaside Pub at Laird and McRae Drives. As Jeff says, this is a great night for friends to get together and raise some cheer and do good by donating toys (and money to buy toys) for the kids in Thorncliffe and Flemingdon.  Last year, the night provided toys for about 2,500 kids.

A winter clothing drive is being held Saturday, December 10 at the InsideOutside Health and Fitness Studio at 210 Laird in aid of the Yonge Street Mission. See clickable poster.

Future versions of the $10 bill will feature the picture of Viola Desmond, a Nova Scotia woman who in 1946 challenged the whites-only rule in movie theatres. A video has been made in the Heritage Moments series which tells of her experience and the role it has in leading to the removal of such rules. The new series of bills goes into circulation in 2018. Other women on the short list were poet E. Pauline Johnson; Elsie MacGill, who received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Toronto in 1927; Quebec suffragette Idola Saint-Jean; and 1928 Olympic medallist Fanny Rosenfeld, a track and field athlete. Famous Five activist Nellie McClung, the Alberta suffragette who fought in the 1920s for women to be legally recognized as persons in Canada, was for many Canadians the most obvious omission from the short list.

 

Police are appealing for help in finding a suspect in the deadly attack on a man outside an unmarked social club on Donlands Ave at Plains Rd. Wednesday night. The dead man is identified as 46-year-old Ardian Kaloshi, who was known to police. Speaking to reporters Thursday morning, Det.-Sgt. Mike Patterson said officers from 54 Division were called to 393 Donlands Avenue, located near Plains Road, shortly before 10 p.m. Mr. Kaloshi was found with “obvious head injuries,” on the sidewalk Patterson said.

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Starbucks has announced a five-year growth program that will see it double the number of locations from the present 12,000 worldwide to about 24,000. It is a kind of farewell challenge to the firm from retiring Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. The Starbucks reputation for coffee continues to be a strong one. But the company has been under intense pressure in the U.S. from Dunkin Donuts and McDonald’s and in Canada from Tim Hortons. All these coffee houses have out-flanked Starbucks where it is weakest — in the food department. They all sell a greater variety of items. In Canada, Tim Hortons owns a lunch business that in other circumstances might well belong to Starbucks. Tim’s has been aggressive in growing its outlets too. Sometimes they aren’t too big — like the locations in the Couche Tard-owned On-The-Run stores at Esso stations — but they are usually very busy. A large question mark over the Starbucks expansion is whether it will seek drive-through stores like Tim’s. Or will it aim for more “in-store” locations, another Tim’s favorite. 

 

13th Annual Leaside Toy Drive and Guys Night Out Tomorrow 7:30pm https://t.co/znpp35v51x

— snapd North TO (@snapdNorthTO) December 8, 2016

Pride of the Toronto Beach Penny Oleksiak has shattered her own 100-metre freestyle record Wednesday at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Windsor. The tall 16-year-old from Monarch Park Collegiate swam away from a crowd of distinguished international swimmers with a breathtaking time in her heat race of 52.36 seconds. FINA is the Federation Internationale de Natation (International Federation of Swimming)

Dollarama has seen a nice leap of 10 per cent in quarterly profit Wednesday. The company’s net income rose to $110.06-million, or 92 cents per share, in the third quarter ended Oct. 30, from $100.08-million, or 78 cents per share, a year earlier. Same-store sales rose 5.1 per cent.

CBC is recounting Wednesday how the Sherwood Park family of Thomas Wellsman paid $10,000 for a medical procedure to avoid blindness for son Aiden, 16, because Ontario does not cover it. The condition is keratoconus, a degenerative eye disease that causes the cornea to thin and change shape. When he was diagnosed in late October, doctors in Toronto told Aidan and his family it would lead to blindness if left untreated. although no time period is specified in the story. There is much distress and anger about the case because the procedure is covered in full by five Canadian jurisdictions — Yukon, B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec and New Brunswick. It is not covered in NWT, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. The story makes much of the Ontario government’s apparent delay in deciding what to do about paying for keratoconus treatment. Doctors comment that there is politics involved. No doubt. The provincial debt is more than $300,000 billion dollars, not something one wishes to think about when one deals with the eyesight of people.  CBC

 

A man drove into a utility pole near Yonge and Roxborough Streets Wednesday morning about 3.30  He has been taken into custody. The street will be slow as police sort it out and repairs are made.

Debra Kuchme and Grant Allardyce receive the Floral Award Tuesday evening at the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA).

Very proud to receive the Floral Award 2016 at the @TABIANews Recognition Awards Dinner tonight. pic.twitter.com/9tOFxlbVqb

— Bayview Leaside BIA (@LeasideBIA) December 7, 2016