China Daily January 21, 2019 Rena Li
The Canadian business community has voiced its concern over the diplomatic dispute between China and Canada, calling for a resolution due to its potential negative impact on trade and commerce.
CTV News January 18, 2019
A motorcoach stops to pick up passengers on Bonis Avenue, near an entrance to Agincourt Mall, on Tuesday, Jan. 15, the day Scarborough councillors decided to investigate making the street a no-stopping zone for buses. – Mike Adler/Metroland
Casino shuttles parked near malls and plazas are being targeted by a Scarborough councillor who says they pose a safety hazard.
Jim Karygiannis says he’s asking companies to keep tour buses off residential streets in his Scarborough-Agincourt ward.
That includes Bonis Avenue beside Agincourt Mall, Redlea Avenue near Splendid China and Bamburgh Circle near a commercial plaza at Warden and Steeles avenues.
“On one hour on Bonis you will probably find three or four buses,” Karygiannis told Scarborough Community Council on Jan. 15.
“I’m asking: please find other places.”
Companies which operate the shuttles seven days a week started stopping on Bonis, and then approached Agincourt Mall about using its parking areas, said Steve Bishop, vice president of development services for the mall’s owner, North American Development Group.
Last fall, after a year or two of complaints from customers, tenants and residents about their presence, the mall told companies their buses were no longer welcome.
“We were concerned about liability,” Bishop added.
The shuttles, however, went back to picking up and dropping off passengers on Bonis, sometimes “right in front” of a crosswalk close to the Agincourt Public Library, Paul McKinlay, who lives nearby, told Scarborough councillors.
“They’re just using it as a cheap bus terminal,” he added.
The move would see the two wards relocated to the Centenary and Scarborough General hospitals, each about a 15-minute drive south. (Google Maps)
【明報專訊】針對士嘉堡芬治東路夾華登路1棟長者柏文內存在住客對膳食不滿問題，選區內市議員詹嘉禮(Jim Karygiannis)親自到柏文內﹐協調解決絕大部分華裔長者投訴膳食不合口味的問題﹐但由於雙方分歧較大﹐沒能找到解決方案﹐詹嘉禮表示給餐廳經營方一些時間整改﹐下月底將再開會討論。
【明報專訊】租住在多市士嘉堡區芬治路夾華登路St. Paul’s L’Amoreaux Centre內聖保羅老人大廈的39名老人，九成都是華裔﹐但因為租住單位內沒有廚房﹐必須參加老人大廈內的膳食計劃﹐每月交500元伙食費﹐由政府直接付給餐廳。但是自從去年9月餐廳更換廚師和服務員後﹐飯菜質量被指變得愈來愈差，中菜少了!西餐多了!老人家實在無法忍受﹐已投訴多次﹐但問題依然沒有解決。
His council resolution: Subway, subway, subway. My greatest resolution is that I need to work on the Sheppard subway extension from Don Mills out to McCowan.
Councillor Jim Karygiannis. (Paul Borkwood/CBC News)
It’s important to my constituents because of the development happening — there’s 60 to 70 towers coming along, a lot of them along Sheppard. When you have this great density intensification, you will need means of transportation.
His personal resolution: To spend more time with my granddaughter, Evelyn. If I get to see her for 10 to 15 minutes a day, I am in heaven.
The last Toronto food bank to open in 2018 started with a woman handing out bread.
Indra Adjei saw plenty of people in her northwest Scarborough building who needed it — seniors, people who lost their jobs, people who couldn’t work.
Many of them felt isolated — and lots of times, when people from 80 or more families came for bread each Friday, it made Adjei’s day to see them smile.
Since recreational cannabis became legal in October, individual provinces and municipalities have been working to iron out the finer details of what the new regime will look like in their jurisdictions.
