Without fear of flavour
West Park Healthcare Centre in Mount Dennis is asking for donations of personal protective equipment, such as masks, gloves, and gowns.
I know that there are shortages everywhere, but if you are able to help out please reach out to @westparkhcc directly! #ysw https://t.co/90Q7bHzkTE
— Frances Nunziata (@FrancesNunziata) April 1, 2020
Groups of people have been playing soccer on the field at Weston Lions Park over the past week, despite exhortations to not gather in groups so that we can flatten the COVID curve.
John Tory says he’s had enough. “People were playing soccer at the Weston Lions Park and at Humberline Park having climbed over fences and gates that were locked there to keep people out during this health emergency.”
Violators could now be fined, he says. “For them, we won’t hesitate to issue a minimum $750 fine and potentially as high as $5,000 fines so that maybe they will get the message.”
As if there was any doubt that that Comal Y Canela is the finest restaurant in Canada, they’ve gone and outdone themselves.
Last week, even when business likely wasn’t smashing, Comal Y Canela organized a free food pantry for those “most in need in our community. To those who through no fault of their own are now unemployed and unable to obtain support from traditional support systems”.
Comal Y Canela will have another food pantry tomorrow, April 1.
A York South–Weston organization needs “masks, gowns, gloves, hand sanitizer, wipes and spray”, and Frances Nunziata is marshalling resources.
If you have any, you can contact her at [email protected]
A big THANK YOU to everyone who came forward over the weekend and provided what they could!❤️
Supplies are still needed! Please contact my office if you can provide an essential #ysw community organization with Personal Protective Equipment, cleaning sprays, hand sanitizer. https://t.co/B6BBJ4UoYS— Frances Nunziata (@FrancesNunziata) March 30, 2020
If you have a small business and are looking for help getting through the COVID mess—or even just to meet new people—the M9N Business Networking Group is meeting online every other Wednesday, and they’d love to hear from you.
Currently, the group includes:
Other members of the M9N Business Networking Group include Westonminister Dog Grooming, Joanne Acri (Recruiting), Luisa Bada (Real Estate).
Yesterday my daughter and I went bear hunting in Weston. We did great, catching a dozen at least. Thank you to those who are making this a little less unbearable for the kids and kidlets!
On the way home, we decided to have a little competition and take some arty photographs. My eldest is quite convinced that she has an poet’s soul and much talent. I think it’s time we disabuse her of this notion and get her into solar cell engineering, a field in which I am certain she will excel.
Please vote on the following photos and let me know which is your favourite. In the name of science, I shall not say who took which photo. You will have to vote on their merits alone.
In the first, entitled “Childhood restrained” we see an allegorical photograph of a child’s toy seemingly held back by caution tape. Is the tape holding the toy in? Or is it keeping the children out? The background, softened by a long lens and open aperture, shows a play structure, empty, made misty as if by memory or time, accentuating the distance between childhood and the present.
In the latter photo, called “Piece of tape”, we see some tape.
Leave your comment below. “Childhood restrained” or “Piece of tape”? The loser (my daughter) does the dishes.
Ahmed Hussen, our MP and Minister of Families, Children, and Social Development, said that Service Canada is stopping in-person service “so that we can redeploy our focus to online and telephone services to better serve Canadians.”
That is not what the Globe and Mail says. The service centres are closed because “employees en masse refused to work”.
The Globe says
The government bent to pressure Thursday evening from the Canadian Employment and Immigration Union….The centres were crowded and efforts to control the traffic resulted in long lines outside and sometimes irate visitors, she said. In recent days, so many missed work that 187 centres closed on Thursday – almost 60 per cent of the network.
This is politics, but it isn’t just politics. The CDC says that in an emergency, government should “Be First, Be Right, Be Credible”.
Hussen just burned a little bit of credibility in a time when the needs it most.