Concerns about ducklings drowning in Toronto harbour have led to the installation of four special docks at the bottom of Queen’s Quay.PortsToronto put the four floating docks in the Portland, York, Yonge and Jarvis slips on June 18, after consulting with the Toronto Wildlife Centre.
A woman has taken to social media in the hopes of saving her mother’s life.
Dannielle Rodrigues is looking for a live kidney donor for her mother, 63-year-olod Lucy Latino who has needed a new kidney for 13 years but has recently taken a downturn in her health.
Latino went into kidney failure in April.
For a transplant the donor would need to be type O blood that is positive or negative and no one in her family is a match.
Organ donations must match the same blood time and those waiting for an organ from a deceased individual can be on the wait list for years.
It was a gorgeous weekend for a drive in the country. Equally nice weekend to unwind, have a beer and enjoy spring showing up. Would be nice if everyone else on that road knew that some yahoo was combining the two activities.
Police are trained to note any impairment you might have, from liquor, street drugs, pharmaceuticals or even tiredness. Granted, a half empty beer can in your cupholder looks pretty incriminating, but pitching it out the window? The cops saw you before you saw them.
Ontario’s Highway Traffic Act is clear: you can’t have any open liquor in the passenger compartment of your vehicle. “driving a motor vehicle with open liquor readily available” under section 32(1) of the Liquor Licence Act, which carries a $180 fine.” Nor can your passengers, in case you were thinking you could just hand it off: “The passengers could face charges of “having liquor in open container in other than licensed premises, residence or private place” under section 31(2) LLA