The Toronto Star has reported that the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has thrown out numerous books that are deemed to be old, or contact ‘inappropriate’ or do not meet their ‘equity policy’.
Just because a book is old does not mean that the book is no longer relevant, especially if it contains valuable information that students might need. Unless the book is badly damaged, then the books should retained for reference at least. Continue reading
Last night the Toronto Blue Jays lost 6-2 to the defending American League Pennant winners, the Detroit Tigers. Errors contributed to the problem as the Tigers scored five unearned runs off the Blue Jays. Josh Johnson picked up the loss, while Max Scherzer improved to 13-0 this season.
The problem for the Blue Jays started in the 2nd Inning again. Prince Fielder hit an infield single off Johnson’s glove, which should have been an easy play for him to make. Victor Martinez then stepped up to the plate and hit a routine ground ball right through Emilio Bonifacio’s legs at 2nd base. Bonifacio was charged with an error and left runners at 1st and 2nd with no one out. Jhonny Peralta then hit a single, scoring Prince Fielder.
After Johnson got Andy Dirks to strikeout and Omar Infante to fly out, Alex Avila hit a three run homerun to give the Tigers a 4-0 lead. Continue reading
Gerry Hyman has a new article for the Toronto Star. Let’s discuss some of the questions brought up in it.
QUESTION: Our declaration provides that units may only be occupied as single family residences and we have rules setting out rental requirements. We don’t seem able to be able to achieve enforcement in order to prevent short-term rentals. What should we do?
ANSWER: The single family provision in the declaration will not prevent owners from renting their units on a short-term basis, provided each rental is to only one family. If your corporation’s declaration or a rule does not provide for a reasonable minimum rental period, such as one year or six months, a rule to that effect may be passed. Such rules have received court approval as reasonable way of preventing transitory or hotel-type rentals inconsistent with the intended use of the units. Mediation pursuant to the Condominium Act may be required with an owner who fails to comply. Should the offending owner not agree in the mediation to end the offending rentals, the matter will proceed to arbitration. The arbitrator will render a binding decision and may order the offending owner to pay some or all of the corporation’s legal and arbitration costs.
The problem here is that the Condominium Act does not specifically dictate the minimum length of rentals, although Section 83 deals with the minimum requirements of a rental: Continue reading
In order to make room for the returning José Reyes, the Toronto Blue Jays have optioned Munenori Kawasaki back to their Triple-A team the Buffalo Bisons.
Kawasaki provided a lot of energy for the Blue Jays at shortstop while Reyes was on the disabled list recovering from an ankle injury. Blue Jays’ fans will likely have to wait until the September 1st when the rosters expand to 40 men before we see Kawasaki in Toronto again. However, let’s see what he did in his 60 games for the Blue Jays: Continue reading
The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-6 tonight with a walk-off base hit by Rajai Davis in the 9th inning. The Blue Jays have now won their last 9 straight ballgames to get back to .500 with a record of 36-36.
R.A. Dickey started for the Blue Jays and went 6 innings, plus two batters in the 7th inning. He gave up 6 runs, including a three run homerun by Chris Davis (6th inning), and solo homeruns from J.J. Hardy (2nd inning), and Ryan Flaherty (7th inning.) Continue reading
Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has announced that the Federal Government is going ahead with the building of a new airport in Pickering. However, the question is whether or not we really need another airport in the G.T.A. when we already have John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport, Lester B. Pearson Airport in Mississauga, and the Billy Bishop Airport on Toronto Island. Plus there is Buttonville Municipal Airport. I personally do not think that we need another airport.
Let’s see how we could handle the transportation demands:
1) Billy Bishop airport. Porter already handles many short range locations already including Montreal, Ottawa, Halifax, Chicago, and New York, Moncton, Quebec City, Mont Tremblant, St. John’s Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Timmins, Windsor, Washington, and Boston. Season service includes Myrtle Beach, and Burlington Vermont. This allows people to get to some short-mid range locations. Billy Bishop should be retained for mid range routes.
2) Lester B. Pearson airport handles all different routes from short runs (to Ottawa and Montreal for example) to International flights. There are two terminals, and Pearson can certainly be retained to handle the needs of long distance flights.
3) Hamilton airport. The airport in Hamilton can be utilized to take some pressure off Pearson for many domestic and North American flights. Continue reading
The title of this post says it all: ‘Should Pete Rose be in the Hall of Fame?’ I think he should. And here’s why:
Peter Rose holds several Major League Baseball (M.L.B.) records, including most hits at 4,256, at bats with 14,053, outs with 10,328, and games played at 3,562. He also played on three World Series teams. He also won many individual awards, including three batting titles, two Gold Gloves, Rookie of the Year award (1963), a Silver Slugger award, Hutch Award, a Roberto Clemente Award, and an M.V.P. award.
He also hold several other records:
I finally got around to attending my first Blue Jays game down at the SkyDome (or Rogers Centre.) The Texas Rangers were in town finishing a three game series that saw the Blue Jays win the first two games – 6-1 on Friday, and a 4-3 walk-off win yesterday afternoon in 18 innings.
The starting pitchers were Justin Grimm (Rangers) and Josh Johnson (Blue Jays.)
The game started well for the Blue Jays as they would take a 4-0 lead in the 3rd inning, capped off by a 3 run homerun by Adam Lind. However, that would be the highlight for the Blue Jays. Nelson Cruz would get a solo homrun with 2 out off Johnson in the 4th inning. David Murphy would then walk before scoring on a double by Chris McGuinness to make the score 4-2. Continue reading
Well, we have now made it to the Stanley Cup Finals with the Boston Bruins facing the Chicago Blackhawks, a battle of two original six teams. Boston dominated the Pittsburgh Penguins, winning their series four games to none. Chicago beat the defending Stanley Cup Champions the L.A. Kings.
The Stanley Cup.
Boston and Chicago have met six times in the postseason with Boston winning five of those match-ups. Boston won a two game, total goals series in 1927 10 goals to five. Boston would win a best of three series in 1942, two games to one. They would not met again in the postseason until 1970, when Boston again won four games to none in the semifinals. Boston would beat Chicago again in the semifinals in 1974, four games to two. Chicago won their only series against Boston in the first round of the 1975 playoffs, two games to one. Three years later, Boston would beat Chicago four games to none in the quarterfinals. Continue reading
With the Canadian Football League’s (CFL) teams opening training camp, I’d like to provide a brief history of the Grey Cup.
The Grey Cup was created in 1909 by the Governor General, the 4th Earl Grey, originally meant for hockey. However, the Allan Cup was created first, so the Grey Cup was instead given to the top football team in Canada. The Cup has been awarded yearly since then with the exception of during and immediately following World War I (1916-1919.)
The Grey Cup.
The Toronto Argonauts, the current Grey Cup Champions, have won the most Grey Cups with 16, having appeared in the championship game 22 times. The 1995 Champions, the Baltimore Stallions, are the only non-Canadian team to win the Grey Cup, but moved back to Montreal prior to the 1996 season to become the ‘new’ Montreal Alouettes. The last none CFL team to win the Grey Cup was the St. Hyacinthe-Donnacona Navy team that beat the Hamilton Flying Wildcats. Continue reading
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