Usain Bolt breezes to victory smiling and we love it

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Usain Bolt has became the first person to win three straight Olympic 100-metre titles, finishing the breathtaking dash in 9.81 seconds at the Rio Olympics. Bolt defeated American Justin Gatlin by .08 seconds for his seventh Olympic gold medal. Andre De Grasse of Markham won bronze with an impressive 9.91-second finish. The Canadian sprinter kept Canada’s medal streak alive. Canadian athletes have won at least one medal on every day of competition and sit 11th in the total medal standings with 13 (two gold, two silver, nine bronze).

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Google manager fought and scratched her killer say cops

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Vanessa Marcotte

Massachusetts police say Google manager Vanessa Marcotte fought fiercely against her attacker last Sunday and must surely have left the man scratched.  And, say police, they know it was a man. That may seem like a given for many people but the unspoken suggestion in this assertion is that cops have DNA. In fact, Boston station WCVB is saying that DNA from a known person is being tested. The attack occurred Sunday between 1 and 3 p.m. as Ms. Marcotte was jogging alone near her mother’s home. Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. asked for the public’s help Thursday identifying a man with scratches, scrapes or bruises known to informants.  Victim Vanessa Marcotte was a 27-year-old Google account manager. She was found dead Sunday night hours after she went for a run near her mother’s home in Princeton, a rural town west of Boston. Police have said they have many tips from the public.

 

Industrial accident reported at Castle Frank subway station

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Multi-modal roadway still a mighty muddle for most

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Police have been assigned this weekend to try to educate pedestrians and cyclists about how to stay safe as they navigate the redesigned “multi-modal roadway” at Queen’s Quay. It is more than a year since the elaborate streetcar, automobile, pedestrian, cyclists speciality street opened too much excitement. Since then the roadway has seen accidents involving all these “modes” and most people agree it is confusing. Drivers and streetcar operators also get into trouble. It is an improvement that just seems to be too much for little prehistoric minds. Training needed? Two streetcars collide on Queen’s Quay.

Brianne Theisen-Eaton wins bronze in heptathlon

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Gripping video of desperate rescue from a sinking car

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This video is published by CNN of men working desperately against time to rip open the top of a convertible car and rescue a woman from drowning. It happened in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Flooding again Saturday in SmartCentre parking lot

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Alan Habbick @alanhabbickcbc tweeted pictures of what appears to be chronic flooding in the SmartCentre parking lot, recurring again Saturday during the afternoon storm. A similar farm-sized pond appeared last month during a rainstorm. Previous.  Also Tree blocks Southvale as summer storm hammers area

Southvale re-opened late Saturday after summer storm

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Southvale Drive east of Hanna Rd — The South Bayview Bulldog

Southvale Drive was re-opened about 10 p.m. Saturday night as crews dismembered and removed a large tree branch blocking the busy street. A severe storm dumped dozens of mm of rain during a fierce afternoon downpour. Tree-rich Midtown once again saw many fallen branches. Wires fell on Soudan Ave at Forman Ave and Sutherland near McRae.. There was “major flooding” at the underpass at Bayview Ave. and Nesbitt Drive. Dozens of outdoor events were suddenly overwhelmed by rain. Owners of antique vehicles at Wheels on the Danforth tried to enclose them as strong winds practically knocked people off their feet.

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Wires down in Sutherland Drive

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Debris on Manor Rd. at Forman Ave.

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This branch remained across McRae Sunday morning

Cheeky tiger bums run naked to raise money for animals

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Tiger bums hard at work

Some 300 runners galloped naked through ZSL London Zoo in an after-hours event, watched by their supporters and some rather bemused animals. They did it to raise money (or so they say) to assist the survival of the species. In fact, some may just like running around in the altogether. Bodypaint and tiger stripe leg warmers were the streakers’ only attempts at modesty.

CNN goes looking for garbage in Rio Janiero slums

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Rio’s sailing venue is in the midst of raw sewage and garbage. It comes from poor neighborhoods largely without basic sanitation. CNN’s Shasta Darlington shows us the details — CNN

PENNY: “I’m just going to go home and live my life, I guess”

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The emergence of Penny Oleksiak as a national hero, teen role model and altogether nice kid is generating interest in the East York swimmer as a commercial icon. At just 16 years, Oleksiak has the post millennial stuff to cause a stampede of manufacturers and government agencies to her door. Today the Globe and Mail and CTV both run stories quoting sources about this prospect.  “She’s doing everything right,” said sports agent Kris Mychasiw of Sprint Management. CTV 

 

Academic suggests it is unethical to view crack video

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Professor Beever

Here is a fanciful piece from the CBC which has professor Jonathon Beever at the University of Central Florida (hmm) suggesting that it is unethical to watch the Rob Ford crack video. “It just feels like it’s a bad thing to see this man in such bad shape and not have that knowledge do any work for you. It’s not as though it matters whether we convince people that he was a good man or bad man, whether he was a good mayor or a bad mayor,” says the professor. The CBC solemnly puts this to readers. But wait. Should journalists ask why they would even publish it?