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Newsstand: May 13, 2013
There was a frost alert last night. A frost alert! In May! We're indignant. In the news: watch out if you're crossing one of these top-10 unsafe intersections, Chris Hadfield heads back to earth, 20K run the Sporting LIfe 10K, and the Leafs take a must-win game at home.
Often cross the road at Sheppard Avenue East and Ambrose Road, near Leslie station? Then you’re using Toronto’s most dangerous intersection for pedestrians, according to a report to city council. One intersection on the list of the 10 most dangerous has already been redesigned to make it safer, and council is promising “immediate” action on the nine others included in the report. One of the listed intersections is downtown and another is at the border of Etobicoke and old Toronto, with others in North York, Scarborough, and Etobicoke. The study also found that 39 per cent of car-pedestrian collisions at intersections occurred when a car making a left turn struck a pedestrian crossing with the right of way; 20 per cent were between cars making right turns and pedestrians with the right of way, and 13 per cent between cars driving straight through or pedestrians crossing without the right of way. Stay safe out there, everyone.
Awesome Canadian spaceman Chris Hadfield is set to return to Earth from the International Space Station tonight, after a two-month stint as the station’s commander. During that time, Hadfield has participated in Music Monday, posted dozens of photos to social media, and, to cap his mission off, released a cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” produced with the help of Ontario musician Emm Gryner. Here’s hoping for an uneventful return trip.
Despite yesterday’s chilly weather and rain, 27,000 runners and walkers hit Yonge Street in the morning for the Sporting Life 10K, raising at least $2 million for Camp Oochigeas, which sends kids with cancer to camp in Muskoka. If you ran, you may be able to find yourself in this hi-res photo from the Toronto Star.
And the Maple Leafs’ return to the ACC for Game six of the first round of the Stanley Cup Finals proved to be a good one for Toronto fans, as the boys in blue beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 and staved off elimination. The Leafs headed right back to Boston after the game, where they’ll play Boston at TD Garden tonight—a win will send them to the second round of the playoffs. The Leafs have only once come back after trailing 3-1 in a best-of-seven series–in 1942, a year they won the Stanley Cup.