North Bessborough fire kept seven trucks on scene

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Second-storey break-ins hit Rosedale, South Bayview

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Toronto Police are warning of a series of home break-ins in Midtown, including Rosedale and South Bayview by burglars who apparently use a ladder to enter by second storey windows. They occur during “evening hours”.  One such recent break-in was Sunday, November 27, 2016, where two people broke into a home in Rosedale. The same suspects are also believed to have broken into several other homes in the midtown area throughout November

WATCH FOR VEHICLES AND PEOPLE

Residents are asked by 53 Division police to safeguard their homes by:keeping an exterior light on after dark, keeping windows secure and alarms functional and on. They are asking residents to report any suspicious vehicles or persons, and to check existing security camera video and report any suspicious behavior captured at their residence.

TTC’s new buses made in Quebec with mixed parentage

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The TTC’s new LFS buses are made by Prevost in Sainte-Eustache Quebec. The vehicles are coming on line in a paint style that mimics the new streetcars from Bombardier. Prevost is also an old Quebec firm formed in 1924 but these days has parents named AB Volvo of Sweden

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Woman dead in house fire on Elmhurst Ave. in North York

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A woman has died in a house fire on Elmhurst Ave. in North York. The victim, 47, was discovered in the home when firefighters arrived to deal with a two alarm fire. Her age had previously been estimated to be about 70. The fire marshal is investigating. No cause has been given.

 

South Bayview ready for Christmas shopping period

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Audio shows Brazilian soccer team’s plane ran out of gas

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The aircraft that crashed in the Colombian mountains killing 77 people apparently ran out of fuel before reaching its destination, the capital of Medellin. The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers his tanks were empty. AP says a chaotic audiotape from the air traffic tower records the pilot of the British-built jet repeatedly requesting permission to land due to a “total electric failure” and lack of fuel. Investigators find it a likely explanation because the plane did not explode or burn on crashing

Matlow meeting to discuss 2 new parks on Manor Road

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Parks will be created from land acquired after the demise of the Glebe Manor Lawn Bowling Club and from half of the property once owned by Manor Road United Church. The date of the meeting at Maurice Cody gymnasium is Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Teen asked: “Will it be your position not to take a stand”

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Sam Oosteroff

MPP Sam Oosterhoff, 19 years, met the media at Queen’s Park Wednesday. Osterhoff is the PC member for Niagara West-Glanbrook and he has social conservative roots. Now it seems he will become the party’s unwilling poster boy for everything that many deeply oppose. The Toronto Star reports that Oosterhoff insisted he believes in evolution and denied adamantly that he is a homophobe. He may have trouble with how that word is defined. Then there was the question that signals there will be no peace for the kid from Niagara: “Will it be your position not to take a stand.”  Maybe. Nice picture though.

Driver does hit-run on bus stop bench at Moore and Lumley

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Bits of bench are all over
Only footings remain where bench sat
Skid mark after driver destroyed bench
Just junk now
An eastbound driver got too far into the bike lanes the other night and bounced up onto the extended sidewalk at Moore Ave and Lumley Ave. The result is all too clear.

WEATHER: November being November, it was a nice one

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November being November, it was a pretty darn nice one. Whether you were growing a mustache or getting a pedicure on Bayview Ave., it was easy weather to take. Thanks November and Mr. December, try to do as well. You are off to a good start from the look of the Weather Network forecast below.

Joggers meet Wednesday at the Cat’s Eye Bridge, Bennington Heights

Metallica concert proceeds to the Daily Bread Food Bank

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Metallica rocked the Opera House last night and while the music (below) may not be everyone’s cup of tea, it yielded a nice bit of cash for the Daily Bread Food Bank. The fans ate it up. The Opera House sits 950 with some tickets selling for $100. Audience members were encouraged to bring food donations for the food bank. The Christmas Drive is on at DBFB with a goal of 1.5 million pounds of food, as well as $1.5 million.

Liberals to pipe oil from Alberta to Pacific, the east and U.S.

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The Liberal government will acknowledge the hard truth of modern economics and build pipelines to move Alberta oil to the Pacific as well as to the head of the Great Lakes. Does government, society and the pipeline industry need to be exceedingly careful about putting this in place? Naturally. But then, we risk danger to life and limb every day from other things we would never give up because of the superior life they give to Canadians. The CBC story linked here has the Prime Minister saying all these things in the constipated language of politics. Take a look. CBC