Parking enforcement will be suspended over the statutory holiday of Thanksgiving as usual in Toronto. The release below was issued Friday.
The Toronto Police Service Parking Enforcement Unit will not be enforcing the following on-street parking bylaws during the Thanksgiving public holiday on Monday, October 11, 2021: Pay-and-display/metered areas, rush hour routes and posted signs indicating Monday to Friday regulations. All other areas and parking offences will continue to be enforced
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Manufacturers are seeing a post-pandemic push for fully touchless washrooms. The ordeal of 2020-21 has apparently hastened demand for complete conversions. Touchless taps and dryers are already universal but now touchless soap joins them. The picture above shows another innovation — dryers located over the sink so we don’t drop water all over the floor. The principal of automatic washroom devices relies on an infrared light, which sits next to an infrared detector. The sensor works to signal the faucet valve to turn on when your hands come within a few inches of the lip of the spout, bouncing the infrared light off of your skin and to the detector. Urban Toronto
Education Minister Stephen Lecce is scheduled to speak Friday morning on a plan to distribute six million free menstrual products per year to school boards over the next three years. Ontario will become one of four provinces that provide free menstrual products to students through an arrangement with Shoppers Drug Mart. The news conference may be seen here when it begins.
The animal faces in this trio of tales mean the news is all good. It starts with the fascinating video story of Boji, the Instanbul transit hound, who has become a well-behaved and celebrated national figure as he makes his daily commute through the timeless City. Then at centre a glimpse of the stunning art created at the annual Los Angeles Cat Art Show. No dogs allowed. Lastly we have an orangutan hook-up of historic proportions at the Toronto Zoo where endangered species Budi and Sekali are expecting.
Police say there is at least one injury in a tangle of vehicles on Highway 401 near Brock St. at Whitby Thursday. The injured party was airlifted to hospital via Ornge air ambulance (photo below).
Thanks for coming to #whitby @Ornge, great job on the scene landing and getting the patient the help they need fast. Please avoid the 401 westbound at Brock Street as it will be closed for the collision investigation.@OPP_HSD @WhitbyFire @DurhamParamedic pic.twitter.com/q4uGQwHX7a
— Colin Williamson (@ColinWxchaser) October 7, 2021
One person has serious injuries after a multi-vehicle crash on Highway 401 in Whitby https://t.co/x6sgk72116
— CityNews Toronto (@CityNewsTO) October 7, 2021
The Toronto Fire Service is still cleaning up from an all-night three-alarm fire at a mansion under construction on exclusive Old Colony Rd in North York. More than 50 units were required at the site of the fire which was spotted about 10 p.m. Tuesday.
A Toronto court has found that teacher Nicholas Mills is not guilty in connection with the drowning of a teenage student Jeremiah Perry during a canoe trip at Algonquin Park in 2017. The charge was criminal negligence causing death. In her decision, Superior Court Justice Maureen Forestell said the conduct of Nicholas Mills, a C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute teacher who was in charge of the school trip, did not “reach the level of moral blameworthiness necessary for criminal liability.” CTV
Would any teacher have said no?
Here’s what The Bulldog wrote in 2017: Others might have done the same. Rather than deny Perry the broadening experience and inclusion that the trip represented, they would have found the risk/reward odds favoured letting the boy go. That would have been against the rules and wrong. But it is easy to understand.
Residents are invited to explore Toronto’s ravine network during a City-sponsored ten-day period called Ravine Days. It’s well underway but lasts until October 10.
The Falcon Building at 522 Mt. Pleasant has been listed recently for $6,250,000. Realtor.ca notice.
Work has begun to repair sinking pavement on Moore Ave opposite the south gate to Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. The road at this point is a well-used crosswalk for hikers and cyclists into the Mud Creek Ravine. Many decades ago travellers on Moore Ave crossed the ravine on a bridge where the Beltline Railway passed underneath. The road remains perennially unstable and has been rebuilt many times. Workmen at the site Monday night said Moore Ave would open “sometime tomorrow” and indeed the street was open at dawn Tuesday. But a large steel plate covers an excavation and it is clear work remains. City road crew tackles growing depression on Moore Ave — 2018.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp appear to slowly be coming back online Monday night after experiencing global outages throughout the day. Service resumed for some users at around 6 p.m. EDT. The outages left people around the world unable to communicate on the platforms for more than six hours. CTV
Facebook is suffering its worst outage since 2008. Services for all three Facebook-owned social networks went down just before noon ET. At time of writing this post, they have been down for more than 3 hours…and counting. CBC, CNBC
Users flocked to Twitter, as often happens, to learn more about the outage and get their social media fix.
UPDATE: Facebook appears to be back up after approximately 6 hours of outage. (6pm ET)
Frances Haugen revealed her identity as the Facebook whistleblower
CBS’ 60 Minutes aired an interview yesterday with whistleblower, Frances Haugen, who claimed that Facebook’s own research shows that it amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest, and the company hides what it knows. More: Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview
UPDATE: Facebook , Insta, WhatsApp Outage
• 4 hours, ongoing
• NYT: unlikely a hack; FB employees unable to enter building in a.m
• Servers likely behind problem: CTO
• Facebook stocks
• Zuckerberg lost $7 billion: Bloomberg
• Global loss > $160 million/hr: @netblocks— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) October 4, 2021
