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The Annual Leaside Rotary Club Corn Roast was well-attended Sunday afternoon. Tickets to the raffle were still three for $12 — a bargain even if you don’t win. The legions of children crowding Trace Manes Park were in good spirits — and why not — with the array of bouncy, slide and wheeled concessions to occupy them. Then, as democracy pretty much requires, politicians from the three levels of government were present mostly with tents to announce themselves. Rob Oliphant, MP for Don Valley West, might include an instructional segment on corn roasts in his seminars this fall about the will of the people. Premier Wynne was present and tweeted that she had run into her friend Rob Oliphant. Remarkable coincidence. In the tweet below, the Premier could well get out-ranked by those good-looking kids. Nice shot. Councillor Jon Burnside’s Ward 26 tent had a lineup. Was that about cotton candy? Well done to the Rotarians who organize this fine event each year and to the many sponsors. Thanks.

Young Leasiders with @Kathleen_Wynne at the Corn Roast in Leaside this Sunday! pic.twitter.com/kQA2yHgaVH

— Leaside Matters (@LeasideMatters) September 21, 2015

Ontario Premier Wynne is participating in the 36th Annual Terry Fox Run in Toronto on Sunday. The event began in Wilket Creek Park in the Leslie Street and Eglinton Avenue East area. It is one of several being held across Ontario today.

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A traveller from Cuba to Toronto on WestJet airlines smuggled four iguanas into the country. He was caught at customs but two of the creatures had already escaped his bags and were loose in the hold of the plane. As a result, the aircraft was delayed from taking off on another flight, this one to Vancouver. Apart from anything else, it seems iguanas are capable of chewing through or damaging wires. The plane was fumigated, the animals found and wires checked before taking off again.

At least 29 people have been injured in an explosion in New York, the fire department says. CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz reports. Authorities say the cause was a so-called improvised explosive device or IED. And at 11.24 p.m. EDT CNN is reporting that the NYPD Special Operations Division says a possible secondary device has been located.

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The 23rd Annual Leaside Rotary Community Corn Roast looks like it will catch a break in the weather with temperatures forecast in the mid-20s and little chance of rain. The cooking, eating and game playing begins at noon at Trace Manes Park, Millwood Road and McRae Drive. There will be fresh corn on the cob, hot dogs, deserts and drinks, live music, kids games, motor scooters, trampolines, an obstacle course, bouncy castles and inflatable slides. See you there.

The 2016 harvest moon was muted in many places but the Weather Network has supplied a nice montage from viewers mostly in Canada’s Maritimes.

COBS Cares Weekend was busy Saturday at the COBS at 1539 Bayview with local owner Fiona Boylan, broadcasts to air from CHUM-FM’s Meredith Shaw and a face painting table contributed by Bamboo Bay owner and teacher Carrie Laureola. Those seen in the photo above are Karen Frost, of the Breakfast Club, with Akil Delfish, Meredith Shaw and Alexa Lewis of CHUM-FM. COBS partnered with the Breakfast Club of Canada for the third year over the Friday-Sunday weekend to give $1 from every COBS Bread sandwich loaf sold across Canada to the Club. Last year’s campaign raised $75,000 and this year’s goal is $100,000. Learn more about the COBS Cares Weekend with Breakfast the Club of Canada. The weekend continues Sunday.

The TTC is set to back off on the immediate introduction of the Presto card reader system in  order to save $16 million and thus meet budget restrictions set by City Council. Originally, the TTC planned to spend $30 million to have the Presto system fully in place by the middle of 2017, but delays are expected to push that back further into next year, the report said. With that delay the TTC would only need to spend $14 million for the Presto program next year, a reduction of $16 million. Just like running a household budget.

 

Canadian Press is saying Saturday that two tickets were sold for the $60 million Lotto Max jackpot. Tickets in Toronto and Kitchener should net their owners a tidy $30 million each. Five of the 22 MaxMillion prizes of a million dollars each were also won — two went to ticket holders in Ontario, one in Quebec, one in the Prairies and one in the Atlantic provinces.

 

Was it just a mistake or theft? Sadly when possessions are left in front of a home, even if they are not on the sidewalk, they tend to get taken away.  Now a set of golf clubs on the front lawn of 96 Sutherland Drive on Friday have been taken by a man — but they were not being thrown out. Neighbors saw the person taking the clubs and now the owner is asking for the person who took them to please bring them back. 416-421-2933

The head of Canada’s statistics agency resigned Friday in a torrent of indignation about the future of his employer. In fact, it remains to be seen if the gloomy view of Wayne Smith is accurate. Mr. Smith feels that decisions made by the Conservatives, and evidently left in place by the Liberals, will make Statscan a mere puppet of something called Shared Services Canada. Ugh. Sounds like the Ministry of Everything. Read it here.

ABOLISHED IN 1990

Lawyers are saying that Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Denny Thomas relied on a section of the Criminal Code that has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada in writing a critical verdict this week. Even more astonishing, they say that section 230 on which Judge Thomas relied in convicting Travis Vader, remains in the Criminal Code 25 years after the Court’s decision. There is much wringing of hands about why judges don’t know the law better but this would also seem to be a statement about how little MPs (and others) think of the Supremes.

NORDSTROM OPENS

Reporters are offering their guarded opinion that Nordstrom, newly opened in the Eaton Centre, will not make the same mistakes as Target when it came to Canada. Well, Nordstrom it may or may not get it right but on the surface the comparison seems silly. Nordstrom will open many fewer stores much more slowly to an entirely different clientele. This is a battle with Holt Renfrew and there may be enough money to go round.

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