Internet sensation as Boxer dog adopts baby bird

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Dr. Jim Gracie was awarded Distinguished Flying Cross

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A funeral service will held Thursday July 14, 2016 for Dr. Jim Gracie at Eglinton St. George’s United Church on Lytton Blvd. Dr. Gracie was a much admired general practitioner in North Toronto for 25 years. For ten years, he was the medical director of Union Carbide of Canada. Dr. Gracie was a winner of the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for heroic service as a bomber pilot during World War II. Dr. Gracie was 94 when he died peacefully with four generations of his family nearby. James Paton Gracie obit

Electric car re-charging stations at 250 locations by 2017

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The Ontario government says Wednesday that it will build 500 electric car charging stations in more than 250 locations across the province by 2017. The numbers are confusing because locations may have multiple stations that charge cars at different speeds. The most powerful stations are level three that top up a car to 80 per cent in something like 30 minutes.The list at this link shows the proposed Toronto stations and there are not too many very convenient to South Bayview.

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One is slated for the Foresters property near Eglinton Ave. E and Don Mills Road but the list does not name the level of recharging capacity. Drivers will be able to pay to charge their vehicles with their credit cards, similar to paying for gas at a regular gas station. But as the electric car world well knows, the time required to charge a vehicle (unless it is plugged in overnight at home) sometimes seems prohibitive.

Leaside fixture Lincoln Electric celebrates 100 years

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Lincoln Electric is 100 years old. The firm is a leading industrial welding service and is still on Wicksteed Ave, that location opened in the summer of 1940.

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Former CEO of Canadian Tire makes surprise comeback

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May appoints Brexit voice Boris Johnson foreign minister

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David Cameron’s last question period just like Tonight Show

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Canadian Anglicans ponder split in same-sex sympathies

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Power restored after brief outage darkens downtown

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Tweets suggest that power has come back on downtown after a brief outage Below. City Council was in the dark and not for the first time.

Evening scene to southeast from Rosedale’s main street

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beauty shot Summerhill and Rosedale residents like to call Yonge their main street and this pretty photo shows why. It was taken by the Yonge and Roxborough News blog.

Man conscious after hit by vehicle near Yonge, Davisville

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Reports from the scene of this accident suggest that the person hit by a vehicle is conscious. His injuries are said to be non-life threatening. It is a tricky stretch between Merton St and Davisville Ave because subway passengers (both coming and going) dash across the street. One reason for that is because Davisville is the only station on the Yonge line with no access on the east side.

Italy relied on antiquated system of train traffic control

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News reports say the Italian railway system depends on a 19th Century procedure to keep trains from colliding on the stretch of single track where 23 people died yesterday. The accident occurred near the southern City of Bari. There is no automatic system to stop or even alert trains that they might on the same track. Instead, say officials, engineers relied upon the station master to phone ahead to tell other station masters to tell other engineers that a train was leaving. Red Cross workers on Wednesday were shuttling family members to the morgue in Bari, the regional capital, to help identify the dead. Coroner Franco Introna told the ANSA news agency that 22 bodies were at the morgue, with a 23rd expected to arrive later from Andria.