5 Comments October 7, 2015 at 5:00 pm

Extra, Extra: Scarborough Sidewalk Skirmish Subsides, Buffalo Roam Southern Ontario, and a Mexican Colonel Loses Sons on Hwy. 401

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

Not the missing buffalo in question. Photo by enfys photography from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

The great Scarborough Sidewalk Skirmish of 2015 is over, for now. On International Walk to School Day, local councilor Gary Crawford (Ward 36, Scarborough Southwest) opposed advice from City staff to install a sidewalk on Midland Avenue following watermain construction, as per city policy. Thirteen households on the street signed a petition to stop the two-block sidewalk, even though it would be constructed on the City’s right of way, connect with the Waterfront Trail, serve a local retirement home and co-op, and is located 400 metres from where a five-year-old girl was tragically hit by a garbage truck in 2013. Despite Crawford’s opposition, the committee recommended that sidewalk construction should proceed, and the item will go to council.

If you’re looking for a home where the buffalo roam, you’re in luck: police are on the lookout for a pair of buffalo spotted near the QEW at the Fort Erie/Niagara Falls boundary this morning. The bison are on the lam from a nearby farm; a third escapee was struck and killed yesterday on the QEW.
New information has revealed that two boys killed in a multi-vehicle crash on Highway 401 last Friday were the sons of a high-ranking colonel with the Mexican Ministry of Defence. The colonel and the boys’ mother remain in hospital with serious injuries.
From today’s edition of 12:36: Mel Lastman Square has become a repository for chewed gum. The Toronto Star’s Jack Lakey investigates the dozens of wads dropped from a balcony-like opening at the North York City Centre, probably by some miserable bureaucrat. ( Want more 12:36? Subscribe to it now.)