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The annual Bessborough Public School Mayfair is tomorrow (Sunday. May 29 2016 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Looks like crazy fun with features such as a dunk tank (are you kidding?) to paddle boats.

Jack, three, transformed

Mr. Howard on the job

Friends Sophia and Nadia

There was much fun at the Maurice Cody Spring Fair Saturday. A few notable personalities are seen above. Jack, three, is giving it his best shot at the Spiderman thing. Then there is the hearty guy who might easily play a principal on television except he is one in real life. His name is Andrew Howard. Bottom above are old friends Sophia and Nadia of the Drink Company on Manor Rd. They just opened a second store in Shops of Don Mills. Below you can catch a flavour of the day in video. That’s a wall-climbing tower off the top. Compliments to all.

Yikes. So easy to get off the subway if the doors are never closed. In this case a car on the Bloor-Danforth line sped across the Bloor viaduct with one door open. The TTC is investigating. They acknowledge it is a very serious matter. CityNews viewer Kamal says it was shot just before 6:30 p.m. Friday evening. He says the door malfunctioned at Castle Frank Station where a TTC employee tried unsuccessfully to fix it. The train later left for Broadview Station with the doors open.

@CityNews TTC tried to fix door of a subway Car on line 2. Then TTC let the train go from Castle Franck to Broadview pic.twitter.com/Er0YC7ysr5

— KJ (@NEWSFORWORLD) May 27, 2016

The Maurice Cody Spring Fair is Saturday, May 28, 2016. See you there.

A frightening bully of a driver whose reckless driving led to the paralysis of two little girls has been sentenced to four years in prison in Britain. A judge had said that this penalty for Andrew Nay, 39, will never feel like enough to the family whose bright young daughters are now confined to wheelchairs for the rest of their lives. It is interesting to compare the sentence given to Nay to that imposed on Marco Muzzo for the impaired driving death of three children and their grandfather in York Region last year. Muzzo got ten years. It is the horrifying manoeuvres made by Nay that grip the mind. They were caught on the dashcam of the car in which the children were riding with their parents. Nay was seen by other drivers laughing with his passenger before he tailgated and “bullied” a woman driving the other vehicle seen in the video. Such contemptible driving seems to warrant a harsher penalty. Court heard how Nay made a sudden right-hand turn across oncoming traffic and smashed into the car containing Katrina and Karlina Raiba, aged five and eight last October.

The adventure of an 11-year-old boy at the wheel of a Chevy SUV has ended more or less okay. No one is hurt. Just how it got started is still to be told. It happened downtown around Lake Shore Boulevard and Parkside Drive area. In a tweet sent out shortly after 7 p.m., police said they believed he was driving a black Chevy Equinox. But they confirmed that the boy had been found just before 8 p.m. “Police have stopped the vehicle,” the tweet said. “The (11-year-old-boy) has been located. He is safe and sound. Thanks for all of your help.” The boy was driving the vehicle when he was pulled over in the Queen Street and Ossington Avenue area, police confirmed.

UPDATE: Police have stopped the vehicle. The 11 year old has been located. He is safe and sound. Thanks for all of your help and RTs.^adc

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) May 27, 2016

https://twitter.com/TPSOperations/status/736336956876001281

The 11 yr old is a male white, 5'10", wearing an orange t-shirt, driving a blk Chevy Equinox., plate #: BCBY219, any info pls call 911.^adc

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) May 27, 2016

Premier Wynne herself has said that Ontario won’t ban the use of natural gas for home heating as part of its climate change action plan. She said it in Alberta where people hate the idea as passionately as they do in places like Leaside and Larder Lake. And it is important to note that the gas-ban fear has stalked the province for many days. Often it seemed as if the Liberal Party’s plan was to pretend no one had said such a thing.  Who knows, but  the Premier has called the report “false” and said natural gas will “absolutely” be used to heat Ontario homes in the future.  “The criticism that we have been getting is that we were going to be banning natural gas, and that is not something that we’re doing,” Wynne said after meeting Alberta Premier Rachel Notley in Edmonton Thursday.

Neighbors talk about closure of the marijuana store on Mt. Pleasant

The marijuana storefront at 562 Mt. Pleasant Rd. is closed, its hours of business “cut short by intimidation” according to a sign on the door. The lights are off. The Green Room reaction is rather mild compared to the fire-breathing condemnations being issued by marijuana militant Mark Emery and his wife. Such advocates have invoked the name of swinish big business, the suffering of millions and a mission worthy of Florence Nightingale. Maybe. But the store is closed and a CP24 online poll of listeners suggests a slight majority of a small sampling of barely a 1,000 people by dinnertime Friday favor the closures 54% to 46%.

This summer China will run tests of the amazing “straddle bus” concept which permits traffic to move under the transit vehicle. This extraordinary invention has been in the planning stages for a while but it will now be installed in northern China to see if works. Brilliant really.

Former prime  minister Harper has spoken at the Conservative Party convention in Vancouver. He delivered an upbeat speech in which he declared the party was strong and united even after last fall’s election defeat. He expressed his thanks across many areas of support and especially to his family and wife Laureen who he called the love of his life. YouTube.