Students at Children’s Garden School marked Remembrance Day today with an Assembly hosted by their Grade 1 class. The CGS Student Government welcomed guests and distributed poppies. The children have been focusing on Remembrance all week long. Activities included a visit to the Sunnybrook Cenotaph, writing letters to veterans and lining the halls with lovely homemade poppies.
Here is a video of the Community Consultation meeting held on Oct 13th, 2016, hosted by Jon Burnside, regarding the development proposal at 939 Eglinton Avenue East.
Lea Room meeting hears about downsized 939 Eglinton E.
The Leaside Property Owners’ Association is hosting their Annual General Meeting at Trace Manes Community Centre (110 Rumsey Road) on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 7:00pm. Scheduled topics of discussion include:
One lane of Millwood Road, east of Bayview was blocked by a rather large crane. It was delivering what appears to be a new HVAC unit to the roof of the TD Canada Trust branch on the south-east corner. Easy does it!
Premier Wynne, Mayor Tory and others were at Northlea Elementary and Middle School on Rumsey Rd. Thursday morning to announce and promote the photo radar legislation which is now part of the government’s agenda. More pictures on Twitter from school.
Premier Wynne & Mayor Tory greeting kids at Northlea Public school ahead of photo radar announcement for school zones. pic.twitter.com/9Ju4LommqQ
— Tammie Sutherland (@citytammie) November 10, 2016
City Council has voted to ask Chief Saunders if it was really necessary to change the colour of police cars. Especially to gray. The vote was 26-13 on Wednesday and there was a lot of feeling that the old colour scheme is just fine. And Thursday, Chief Saunders said that he will stop the rollout of the new colour cars pending consultation with the public on their dark-grey-and-white design. The motion came from Michael Thompson (Ward 37) asking that the current white, red and blue colour scheme remain pending a further review and to explain why the change was made. He says the colour scheme — grey with white lettering — makes police harder to approach and undermines the service’s efforts to improve community relations. “What I actually see in terms of the policing particularly in these cars is that we’re actually approaching an American model of policing where it’s becoming more militaristic,” Thompson said. Police chief’s statement
Dozens of rescuers in China are trying to reach a five-year-old boy who has been trapped deep down an abandoned well in Baoding, Hebei province since Sunday. .Some 60 excavators and 100 dump trucks are being used in the search. They boy had been helping harvest vegetables, his father told Chinese media. His condition is unknown. Oxygen, food and water have been supplied but the 30cm-diameter well is too narrow for an adult to enter. The well had been left unused for five years and there were no warning signs. Visual imagery has so far failed to locate the boy.
Let's pray for him! 5-yr-old boy fell into 40-m-deep well 2 days ago in Hebei. Rescuers work all out to save him pic.twitter.com/rRirUoP2IU
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) November 8, 2016
4th night, fingers crossed. Rescue of a Chinese boy who fell down a deserted well underway https://t.co/i1sAvXWGeY pic.twitter.com/Qq3BVtQUXF
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) November 9, 2016
Raise a flag for the veterans. Find out more about the work @Sunnybrook does at https://t.co/mieFKuvmAl. #TMLtalj #RemembranceDay pic.twitter.com/sKPF36pHMi
— Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) November 9, 2016
Martin, Rielly and Corrado meeting with veterans and their families at @Sunnybrook Veterans Centre. #TMLtalk pic.twitter.com/Sy89QNjRbU
— Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) November 9, 2016
Police are struggling with just what was going on when a BMW containing young brothers, 20 and 22, flew through a T-junction in Mississauga, smashed through a chain link fence and plunged into a long deep pond. The calamity occurred sometime last Friday evening after 9 p.m. shortly after the men, Hamza and Shahruka Khan, were last seen in the vicinity of the intersection. There is nothing in the information to cause concern. There are traffic lights controlling the intersection. The Toronto Sun carries comment of an older brother Malik Sikander. He posted a Facebook speculation as to what happened once the car was in the water.
PAINFUL DEATH?
“My brothers died a very painful death. After the car crash, their car went into the pond. Airbags deployed, yet somehow they managed to escape through the sun roof. Shocked by the car crash and cold water, they must have been confused and were swimming in the wrong direction,” he said. Sikander said the men weren’t good swimmers. “They must have cried and shouted their lungs out for help and must have been calling my name to come and help them. I’m sorry babies I weren’t (sic) there for you,” the grieving brother wrote. The men appear to have had a good home life and be otherwise responsible men. The intersection is at Ninth Line and Thomas Street near a 7-Eleven operation. The family had immigrated to Canada from Kuwait two years ago and was said to be enjoying life in Oakville.
Shakurah Khan, 20, and Hamza Khan, 22
A one-time employee of the Canadian Mint has been found guilty of smuggling $165,000 worth of gold from the building on Sussex Drive apparently in his rectum. A judge concluded the RCMP theory about how Leston Lawrence got the gold out of the mint was correct. As a seven-year employee he was largely unsuspicious to guards when he set off metal detectors 28 times in 2014-15. Hand detectors employed by the guards did not detect the gold inside the man’s body. He was brought to police attention by the Royal Bank when a teller noticed that cheques to Lawrence worth more than $15,000 from an Ottawa gold buyer were being deposited by an employee of the mint.
