Happening this Sunday in #Leaside. #CityofTO https://t.co/uvZAhAzugg
— Discover the Don (@DiscovertheDon) August 23, 2016
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— City of Toronto (@cityoftoronto) August 22, 2016
Readers Helen Godfrey and Matthew Trineer (who added a photo above) tipped off The Bulldog to a freaky accident on Cleveland Street just north of Hillsdale Ave. Tuesday at dinner hour A tall transport truck owned by Brewer Transport caught some wires over the street. That caused the wires to fall in front of the truck following, seen above in the shot by Mr. Trineer. Sources said the wires may well have been hanging below the 16.5 foot minimum now allowed in Toronto. The drivers of the tall transport insist it is no more than 14.5. They were delivering hot tubs from Costco.
Catherine McKenna
Canadian Press has obtained documents from the Conservative opposition that show Environment Minister Catherine McKenna (Ottawa Centre) authorized a fee of $6,662 for some pictures of the minister with her staff at the so-called COP21 conference in Paris earlier this year. COP21 was all about the “conservation of biological diversity.” The photo contract revelation comes after Health Minister Jane Philpott said she would repay $520 billed to taxpayers to access Air Canada lounges in North America and Europe.
BEV ODA’S ORANGE JUICE WAS $16
Last week, Philpott also said she would repay $3,700 that was spent on car services, along with any other expenses deemed inappropriate by her department. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged today that his government must do better to control such expenses and left open the possibility of greater transparency in divulging ministerial spending. Bev Oda, it may be recalled, was fired by Stephen Harper for charging $16 orange juice to her hotel bill. And there’s more
Penny Oleksiak was interviewed by the CBC’s Linda Ward on the return of the Olympic Team Tuesday morning. Penny said that when she sneaked home a few days ago she went to Canada’s Wonderland with friends. The gold medal winner confessed she was feeling “a little bit bad”: about telling some fans that she wasn’t Penny Oleksiak.
The federal government will contribute as much as $1.49 billion in transit infrastructure money for transit. The money is part of the first phase of a $60-billion infrastructure funding plan to pay for projects nationwide over the next 10 years. The details were announced Tuesday morning by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne at a municipal transit garage in Barrie. The projects are named here.
Research debunking the long-held view that moderate drinking of alcohol extends life is causing brewers to seek a new market in non-alcoholic beer. The online site Consumerist, which is run by Consumer Reports, makes note of how many countries are abandoning the moderate alcohol advice. Brewers have responded by targeting a new market — non-drinkers. In Canada, Budweiser aims to have 20% of its volume come from no-or low-alcohol beer by 2025, the Wall Street Journal reports. The alleged deception about the effects of moderate drinking — intentional or otherwise — came into full focus this year with evidence that most studies included terminally ill people the “abstainer” category, effectively giving the “moderate” category a substantial advantage when it came to life expectancy.
Drivers will wish to watch out for the newly-installed speed bumps on Cleveland St just north of Belsize Drive outside of Maurice Cody Junior Public School. The 1928 school sits closer to the street than modern structures and the congestion of parents and kids sometimes spills out onto the road.
Canada has your back': Penny Oleksiak leads athletes home after 22-medal Games @ https://t.co/Hk0dJDL9Cn pic.twitter.com/VnziGKgdUi
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Canada's Olympic athletes returning home, with fanfare to follow https://t.co/YSdIfVxIsv #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/xh58S3PcNs
— Toronto Sun (@TheTorontoSun) August 23, 2016
The Beach Village Business Improvement Area is hoping to stage a short parade along Queen Street East to honour Penny Oleksiak and celebrate her victories. The neighborhood where she grew up and went to school is decked out in welcome home greetings
Courier, cabbie, bystander, Porsche driver and cyclist
Police are wisely trying to locate all the parties shown above, and a couple of others too, before they decide what to do about the case of the cabbie who swerved into a bike courier. It happened on Bay Street north of St. Mary Street on Thursday August 18, 2016. Adding an odd odour to this mixture, the video of the taxi swerving to bump the courier is supposedly the work of a Youtube video hotshot from Los Angeles on a visit to Toronto. His name is Fousey and he makes pranks of car incidents. Terrific. Some reports say police are looking for four witnesses but there are at least five seen on the video besides the courier and the cabbie.
IS THERE MORE VIDEO?
Two of the witnesses pictured above, the bystander and the Porsche driver, seem to take the side of the taxi driver. The witness cyclist seen near the end of the tape says ominously to the cabbie that “I saw you at the last light.” The cabbie is on his cell saying the courier has been tailing him and the courier tells the cabbie “You’re going to jail.” There are two other cyclists in the background being sought as witnesses by cops. They say nothing during the video. It is clear something has been going on because whoever shot this video was inspired by ongoing activity and there may well be more of it. Okay, Mr. YouTube prankster, time to dump all your video up to the police.
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The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) is suggesting that the “sideswipe” which apparently occurred at a switch on the CP mainline near Spadina Rd was caused because one crew did not respond quickly enough to a stop signal. It appears to be as simple and as complicated as that. CBC.
NEIGHBOURS
Neighbours all along the mainline from Leaside to the Junction are expressing concern. Some say the railway should be moved. The enormous cost of such an undertaking, both physical and financial, make the mind swim. Sunday’s derailment was minor as such things go. The cargo of aerosol cans was not particularly dangerous and did not spill. Some 1,200 litres of diesel fuel did leak however.
CP SHARES CARGO INFORMATION
The railway actually shares information about dangerous shipments with municipalities and emergency services so that they may be better able to respond if there is a crisis. Why not share this information with everyone? You may guess that authorities are concerned that dangerous people might use timetables and other particulars to blow up or derail trains.
Two elderly women have been robbed in separate incidents as they stood outside their own homes in Cabbagetown. A man and woman operating out of a white van stopped on Sackville Street and the two emerged wielding a knife. They took jewelry from a woman of 81. Later on the same day, Wednesday, August 10, the two robbed a 76-year-old woman in her driveway near Wellesley and Parliament. The occupants of the van are described as having olive complexions, in their mid-40s.
