November 17, 2014 at 4:00 pm

Extra, Extra: G20-Related Disciplinary Hearings, 248 Car Crashes, and Meteor Showers

Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not to miss.

It’s been four years since since the Toronto-hosted G20 summit—and after numerous delays, the disciplinary hearing for Supt. David (Mark) Fenton is finally scheduled to begin on Wednesday. Fenton faces unlawful arrest and discreditable conduct charges stemming from two “kettling” incidents that took place June 26 and 27, 2010.

Even those desperately trying to deny the imminent arrival of winter have to acknowledge that it has, in fact, been snowing. Drivers are likely well aware of this meteorological development: the OPP is reporting that it responded to 248 crashes between roughly 7:40 a.m and 1:40 p.m. today. “That’s 41.3 crashes every hour,” tweeted the OPP. “That’s enough vehicles to form a line of approximately 4 km/s long.”
If you’re interested in seeing something move in and around the sky that is not snow, look to the heavens between midnight and dawn tonight and you might catch a glimpse of the Leonid meteor shower. NASA warns there won’t be a whole lot of meteors (about 15 each hour)—but the ones in evidence will be bright, colourful, and fast-moving.