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A straight shooter by any definition was honoured by police today (Friday, May 6, 2016). Bus driver Daniel Clavette $50,000 and a passport left behind by a  man who was rattled by his mother death. on a TTC bus. It happened on the 11 Bellamy bus just after 7 p.m. on Monday. “My initial reaction was like wow. I didn’t expect to see this amount of money,” Clavette said. It has to be said that no one however should be lugging $50,000 around in a knapsack.

Would you do what this #TTC driver did to get this commendation from TO Police? Found & returned $50k!! @680NEWS pic.twitter.com/v045hHGOaZ

— Mark Douglas (@DouglasCityNews) May 6, 2016

The scenic and educational Jane’s Walks through Leaside known as “Leaside: A Garden City Revealed” are set to go Friday, May 6th at 1 p.m. and Saturday May 7 at 10 a.m. Led by Geoff Kettel & Connor Turnbull, the starting point is the public library at 165 McRae Drive and the walk will take approximately 1.5 hours. More

A bride from Alberta has wept at the generosity of Torontonians who offered to give her a wedding dress after her own gown was destroyed in the fires sweeping Fort McMurray. Elise Boissoneult says she is overwhelmed by the outpouring of support she’s received from strangers.  “You don’t expect this to happen and then for people to put out this much love and support… it’s crazy,” Ms. Boissonneult told CBC as she picked out a dress at Lea-Ann Belter Bridal at 238 Broadview Ave.

Truck driver Tim Gordon was a witness to an attempted U-turn at high speed on Highway 27 north of Highway 401 Thursday.. Sadly, the author of the illegal move apparently did not see the car speeding along in the outside lane. The U-turn driver turned into the path of the other vehicle and sent it careering out of control. The car comes back into the embankment at right angles and rolls over. Now everyone is a witness to this because Gordon’s dashboard camera caught it all on video. The driver had a bloody nose possibly from the airbag deployment but otherwise seemed okay, Gordon said.

The LCBO property on Lakeshore Blvd. has sold to Menkes Developments Ltd. for $240 million. It appears a partnership including Menkes, Greystone Managed Investments and Triovest Realty Advisors will propose a 24-storey office tower that will house a new LCBO head office and a large liquor store, commercial space, a “residential community” and a public park. The government says it is putting net proceeds from the sale toward infrastructure projects. Menkes says construction on the office tower will start in the fall of next year and is expected to be complete in early 2021.

A woman seriously hurt in the collapse of scaffolding at the demolition site of the former House of Chan will take legal action against the City, Metrolinx and the demolition company. Her name is Hannah Somerset, 66, as provided by her lawyer, Ryan Murray. Mr. Murray said Ms. Somerset suffered a head injury, fractures in both legs and feet, a spinal fracture and a large laceration on her left foot. 7 hurt as demolition for Crosstown LRT falls onto Eglinton 

Several homes under construction have been destroyed by fire in northeast Brampton. The housing complex is in the area of McVean and Countryside Drives.

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Galen G. Weston says his retail network pharmacies and supermarkets is ready and eager to dispense medical marijuana. Mr. Weston says he believes patients will benefit more if marijuana is delivered through a pharmacist as opposed to receiving it through the mail, as some do now. Weston says that’s because pharmacists are already trained to deal with managing controlled substances. He says Loblaws is open to dispensing medical marijuana at both Shoppers Drug Mart and grocery locations if they get approval from the federal government. The Liberal government has also committed to regulating and legalizing recreational marijuana as well as for medical reasons but since the election campaign has dampened its enthusiasm for this and drawn out the time for it to happen.

CBC has located the man who shot some unbelievable dashcam footage that illustrates the severity of the situation that residents of Fort McMurray are facing. Burning embers are falling like rain onto their cars as the flames encroach onto the escape routes. Have a look.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that Ottawa will match individual donations made to the Canadian Red Cross to help those affected by the raging wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Fire officials in Alberta do not yet know what started a galloping wildfire that has driven the population out of Fort McMurray but they believe the only relief will come from rain. Winds of 70 km/h have fanned the fire to an astonishing 85,000 hectares overnight. It is burning on several fronts. The main fire, south of the city, is expected to continue to burn out of control today and perhaps for many days to come

Nominations close on tomorrow (Friday, May 6, 2016) for public school trustee in Ward 14, Rosedale-Centre. The election is set for Monday, June 20 to replace the late Sheila Ward who had served on the Toronto and District School Board since 1997. She died in February. TDSB Ward 14 Toronto Centre-Rosedale (City Wards 27 and 28) nominations may be entered or withdrawn until 9 a.m.to 2 p.m. at the Election Services office, 100 Queen St. W., first floor (north). To be eligible to run candidates must be:
• a Canadian citizen
• at least 18 years of age
• a resident in the area of the jurisdiction of the Toronto District School Board
• a public school supporter
• not legally prohibited from voting
• not disqualified by any legislation from holding office
Candidates must provide the following:
• nomination paper
• proof of qualifying address within the Toronto District School Board jurisdiction, and
• $100 nomination filing fee (cash, credit card, debit, certified cheque or money order made payable to “Treasurer, City of Toronto”).

The City will announce the final list of candidates after nominations have closed. The final list of candidates for Trustee, Toronto District School Board Ward 14 will be posted on the City’s election website at http://www.toronto.ca/elections/by-election. With Toronto news release 

This is a longer account by a man who escaped from flames a number of times as he tried to get out of the town of Fort McMurray. His description of desperate residents piling into the back of pickup trucks without even knowing where they were going is quite compelling.