Chicago Cubs crush Indians 9-3 to force Game Seven

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Will the Chicago Cubs beat the odds and win the World Series for the first time in 108 years? Only five teams have come back from a 3-1 split in the first four games to do that. But never mind the stats. What about the Curse of the Billy Goat. Game Seven goes Wednesday in Cleveland. New York Times

Andy Elder rips Co-op cab for passing on McRae Drive

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Leaside resident Andy Elder was startled to see a Co-op Cab (#241 in fact) barrel past him on McRae Drive Tuesday. He wrote this on Facebook: “This Co-op taxi just passed me on McRae before Bessborough as if there was a dotted centre line. I leaned on my horn as he was passing and when the driver got to Bessborough he slowed but didn’t come anywhere close to stopping at the sign. I caught up to him stopped at the red light at Millwood and McRae.”

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St. Anselm Christmas Craft and Bake Sale November 6

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Pipeline blast could up gasoline prices 4 cents/litre

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Pipeline proponents have just been dealt another deadly, explosive setback. Colonial Pipeline Co. was forced to shut down its main gasoline artery to the east coast of the United States late Monday after a maintenance crew in Alabama accidentally hit the line with a trackhoe, creating a spark that set off a massive explosion. One worker died at the scene and five more were taken to Birmingham-area hospitals with severe burns. BNN

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4th Annual Pumpkin Parade in Belsize Parkette tonight

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GRACIOUS! Wildcats go to hockey practice for Halloween

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It may be hard to make hockey practice fun on Halloween but the Leaside Junior Wildcats took a pretty good stab at it. Those “uniforms” might be good for scaring the opposition in the next tough match. Away-game monster suits. The Wildcats play in the Provincial Women’s Hockey League, a 20-team organization that sets high standards for players.

Another crash at Bayview and Soudan/Parkhurst Tuesday

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Doesn’t look like there were any injuries — this time.  Seems as if the Porsche was trying to dash across Bayview. There is a “solution” being proposed but it isn’t very driver friendly. Traffic advisors want no-go rules at Soudan-Parkhurst

Walk around Bayview area streets a Halloween delight

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walk-hal-560 Sue Byford, co-publisher of the The South Bayview Bulldog, enjoyed the fine Halloween evening and filed these happily frightful photos.

Harry worried new girl might be spooked by media blaze

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Meghan Markle stars in Suits, a series filmed in Toronto

Prince Harry has cancelled a flight to Toronto to see Meghan Markle, the LA-born actress now living here while she stars in the USA Network series Suits. Harry has been dating Markle since he met her in TO during the Invictus Games earlier this year. News of this apparent romance got into the UK media over the weekend and now Harry is said to be worried that the media sensation will frighten off Markle. He has been quoted as saying: “Even if I talk to a girl, that person is then suddenly my wife, and people go knocking on her door.” According to the Sunday Express the “red-haired royal Romeo,” 32, was “besotted” with Markle, 35, who plays Rachel Zane on the TV legal drama. An unnamed source says: “He’s in a very relaxed period of his life and Meghan has come along at the right time. They are taking each week as it comes and just enjoying each other’s company but it’s fair to say that they love seeing each other and there’s a definite chemistry between them,” the source was quoted as saying. The actress has stayed with Harry at Kensington Palace and met the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Express reported. Further, “William and Kate really liked her and she fitted in straight away.” Time will tell.

Pope in Sweden to mark 500th year of Lutheran church

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Pope Francis has visited Sweden as 12 months of events leading up to the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Church begin. Considered the greatest rift in western Christianity, Lutheranism prompted the Reformation – a Europe-wide religious, political, social and cultural revolution. The pontiff was in Lund for a two-day visit. In the city’s cathedral, he told worshippers that both Catholics and Lutherans had a “new opportunity to accept a common path.” He and Reverend Martin Junge, the General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation signed a joint declaration stating that the two traditions have more uniting them than dividing them. Lutheranism began in Wittenberg, Germany, in the 16th century. In his address, Francis acknowledged that Luther was an “intelligent man”, who was rightly upset by the corruption, greed, worldliness and lust for power that existed in the Catholic Church at the time of the Reformation

Teens on foot struck during three-vehicle collision

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Police are sorting out a collision involving three vehicles in which three teens on foot were hit and injured. Two boys and a girl between 13 and 14 years old were struck at the Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue East location about 8:30 Halloween night. Two have gone to hospital with serious injuries. A Reddit user posted this:

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“Not posting any pictures out of respect for the people injured. Heard a huge smash, went out on my balcony to see a car on my building’s lawn and bodies on the ground. Lots of people rushed to help right away. The people hit seem to be moving, from what I can see. Lots of police, fire and ambulance on scene now. Was pretty awful to see this not long after the post about reckless drivers endangering pedestrians. There’s a Halloween bag and candy scattered across the lawn of the building. Sucked to hear the kids screaming as the were loaded onto backboards/stretchers. But if you’re screaming then you’re alive, at least. If it went down the way it looks like it went down, one of the people hit ended up 50 or 60 feet from where they were hit.”

PONYMAN? She dresses up Tonka for Halloween

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And there’s Tonka, the Halloween pony from Legal, Alberta.