A girl of 12 has been seriously injured when hit by a car at Danforth and Pharmacy Aves. as she dashed across Danforth against a red light. It happened Sunday about 6.15 p.m. She was unconscious on the scene. The driver, a man, remained at the scene. Photo by James Segundo Twitter
The prime minister is in Tokyo Monday morning set to hold a visit with Japanese leaders before attending the Group of Seven summit later this week. Trudeau will meet Tuesday with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the emperor and empress of Japan as well as carmakers. Then its the G7 summit on Thursday and Friday in the Japanese city of Ise-Shima.
The snug little plaza at Yonge St and Roxborough West has a Starbucks, Pizza Pizza, Smoke Shop and a Rogers store. They shoehorn eight cars in there which means drivers should go slowly, forward and backwards. A young lady was uninjured when the car she was driving took off over that mean-looking yellow concrete curb. It would take a bit of pressure on the gas to jump that baby. Just saying. This was Sunday morning.
The beautiful spring weather Sunday and Saturday saw crowds on Bayview Ave and especially at the Davenport Nurseries at the corner of Davisville.
A man described as an “agitated smoker” tried to open the rear door of a Lufthansa jetliner at 38,000 feet shortly after it took off from Munich. The man was held by staff while the plane landed at Hamburg and he was removed. A doctor said he believed there were mental problems. The plan was headed to Vancouver and took off later.
Canada has won gold at the World’s Hockey Championship in Moscow by shutting out Finland 2-0. Finland takes home silver while the Russians get bronze. They defeated the U.S. yesterday 7 to 2 for that medal. It was Canada’s Connor McDavid scoring a first goal which really won the game. After that, the Canadians held the Fins scoreless. Matt Duchene hit the empty net as the Fins tried to battle back with an extra man in the closing moments of the game. McDavid ended a drought scoring at the 11:24 mark of the first period, driving to the net and deking out sprawling Finnish netminder Mikko Koskinen. Canada’s Max Talbot made 16 saves for his tournament-leading fourth shutout. The medals were handed out by Russian president Putin who congratulated the Canadians on their win.
A former NHL enforcer helped intervene to apprehend a man who tried to abduct a 7-year-old girl who was with her parents in a Montreal Park Saturday. Georges Laraque was well-suited to his task of detaining the man, said to be 24, while police were on their way. Laraque was taking part in a celebrity baseball game at Jeanne-Mance Park when the family of the girl raised an outcry as the man grabbed the child and walked off with her. Members of the family and public stopped him and Laraque was detailed to stand guard over the man until police arrived. “It was surreal,” Laraque told CBC News. “The park was full of people everywhere.” As many as 30 people surrounded the suspect to ensure he couldn’t leave the park until he was in police custody. “I just wanted to make sure that if he got up that I was going to tackle him right away,” said Laraque, who racked up 1,126 penalty minutes over his 13-year NHL career. Laraque described the incident as “crazy,” adding that it made him feel “a little scared” as a father. “I have twins and this could happen to anyone,” Laraque said. “We’ve heard stories of a child being abducted and to see [something] like that — it’s pretty scary.”
Two very nice cars at Roxoborough West and Avenue Road yesterday. This corner is a few metres south of the tricky corners of Dupont St. and Macpherson Ave with Avenue. Yonge and Roxborough News
Raptors fans are heckling LeBron James on Twitter for his rather exaggerated response to a little pushing and shoving on the court Saturday night. The Raptors 99 to 84 victory over the Cavaliers featured an incident shown below. It was in the second quarter that Toronto’s Bismack Biyombo was hit across the wrist by Tristan Thompson. There was a scuffle, during which DeMarre Carroll appeared to shove James. The Cleveland’s star forward staggered backwards across the court, landing on his behind. The video shows it was a stray elbow from his own teammate Thompson that hit James. #leflop
https://twitter.com/BaloncestoVines/status/734373950415855617
And the award goes to LeFlop James, for going down hard for a tap to the face by his own teammate! 🏆 @Raptors #Rtz pic.twitter.com/8JM4u24tnQ
— Kiki Beatz (@KikiBeatz416) May 22, 2016
Some residents of Lawrence Park are trying to stop sewer and sidewalk work which would see the removal of many old-growth trees. For a year now, the dilemma posed by the need to stop the chronic flooding of basements in the vicinity of Bayview and Lawrence Aves. gripped the area. The plan that the City is proposing involves the possible removal of some 349 mature trees. It’s anathema to the people of Lawrence Park. But the pressure is also on to somehow manage storm water. Lawrence Park residents have a campaign of signs to “Save Our Trees” and tying yellow ribbons around the trees the City figures might have to come down to make way for sidewalks and better sewer infrastructure. A large ad in Saturday’s edition of the Toronto Star calls on Mayor Tory and Ward 25 Councillor Jaye Robinson to spare Lawrence Park’s tree canopy.
Terry Fallis
Writer Terry Fallis has once again been placed on the shortlist of finalists with his current novel Poles Apart for the annual Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. The Moore Park man is a two-time winner of the award. The novel is said to deal with “how things are never as they seem” a humorist’s natural point of reflection. It is described by the Leacock associates as hilarious, smart and offering thoughtful commentary on a subject that is flooding our headlines, newsfeeds, Twitter feeds and society. Mr. Fallis is both an award-winning author and social media consultant. Also on the shortlist are Susan Juby for her book Republic of Dirt and Sarah Mian for When the Saints. The medal is one of Canada’s oldest and most prestigious literary awards and the only national award for humour writing. For the first time in the medal’s history, the shortlist features three authors, rather than five. The award will be given on Saturday, June 11, 2016 at the Geneva Park Convention Centre, just outside Orillia, home of humorist Stephen Leacock. In his work, Leacock called his hometown Mariposa
More than a million Canadians are descended from the British women who married young Canadian men, most of them being wedded while the WW II raged around them. Then they were told to wait behind as their husbands, if they survived, went back to Canada on troopships. Later the wives were welcomed in Halifax and it is to that port they have come this weekend to reunite. CBC
