Beginning in 2022, the Ontario government will switch exclusively to email notices to citizens that their driver’s licences, licence plate stickers, and health cards need to be renewed. Email is more than 30 years old and is everywhere but no doubt there are some folks who still aren’t converted. Below is an interview with the minister, Ross Romano on this change.
Dave Owen, the owner of the popular fresh fish and seafood chain de la mer, has posted a video in which he tells the public he has been diagnosed with cancer.
Joe Natale is gone from Rogers Communications and Tony Staffieri is the new CEO as Edward Rogers wields power at the large public firm. The report above is from Rogers owned City News, certainly as good a source as any.
Phone and television sets will wail with the sound of the national Ready Alert warning system Wednesday. In Ontario, the fearful noise that sounds like magnified fingernails on a blackboard will occur about 12.55. It’s no doubt important but be careful not to spin off the highway in fear if you’re driving.
Toronto has announced that Hackman Capital Partners (HCP) and its affiliate, the MBS Group (MBS) will develop and operate the Basin Media Hub, a $250 million state-of-the-art film, television and media hub to be built on an 8.9-acre waterfront development parcel in Toronto’s Port Lands. The lots are located at 29, 35, 41 Basin St. The Port Lands lie more or less at the bottom of the Don Valley Parkway. For most people, it’s a dreary and remote place. Four images depicting this glamorous new Hollywood North community are seen on the City’s news release. It calls the development the most significant contribution to Toronto’s film and television production ecosystem in more than two decades.
Bayview merchants have planned a must-attend shopping event for the weekend of November 27 and 28. From noon until 4 p.m. both days this street occasion will offer free warm beverages from select retailers, a free reusable shopping bag, a take-home gift wrapping package, and a free photo booth all while being serenaded on the street by carolers and Santa handing out candy canes. C-19 safety protocols will apply.
The Bulldog is ready to shop.
This dramatic shot from Twitter photographer Celadon Kate shows new LRT train during testing as well as the transformed view looking west up Eglinton from Leslie Street.
A tree on Mt. Pleasant Rd. split in half during Monday supper hour creating blockage on the road. The tree is a few feet north of Belsize Drive. Police had northbound traffic narrowed as they waited for City Works to remove the obstruction.
Leaside United Church has its venerable Awesome Sale online again this year. Lots of interesting items but of course not as much fun as lining up around the corner and then staring down other buyers for your favorite find.
Toronto’s weather remains relatively warm for mid-November although freezing temps and snow cannot be far off.
This great shot is posted Sunday morning to remind area residents that the Leaside Little Helpers are selling brownies at the corner of Divadale and Don Avon Drives until noon. Love it.
A woman is dead and a man was seriously injured after their car smashed into a utility pole on the Queensway near the Humber River Saturday night. The car was said by police to have “split in half” on impact with the pole.
Child critically hurt in crash into tree
A child is in critical condition and a woman has serious injuries after a car they were in drove into a tree on Renforth Drive north of Rathburn Rd Saturday night.
