CHICAGO -- The Chicago Cubs placed infielder David Bote on the 10-day injured list Saturday after he sprained his right ankle when he stepped on a ball during batting practice.
Bote got hurt before Friday's 17-13 loss to the White Sox. The ball was obscured by some white lettering in foul territory at Guaranteed Rate Field.
The move with Bote was made retroactive to Thursday.
Manager David Ross said the same thing happened to him during his playing career.
"It messed my ankle pretty good, and he was the same," Ross said. "Watch the replay, it's pretty nasty how hard he rolled his ankle."
"Got some test results back and it's a significant sprain that we'll have to treat and try to get him back as soon as we can," Ross continued. "No timetable at the moment."
The 28-year-old Bote is batting .202 with eight homers and 32 RBIs in 78 games for the fourth-place Cubs. He missed time earlier in the year with a dislocated left shoulder.
Asked if the ankle injury could sideline Bote for the rest of the season, Ross reiterated that he didn't want to put a timetable on his return.
"I know he felt better today, bouncing back," Ross said.
The Cubs also brought up infielder Alfonso Rivas and right-hander Scott Effross from Triple-A Iowa. Pitchers Ryan Meisinger and Jake Jewell were designated for assignment.
Rivas and Effross are looking for their major league debuts.
The 24-year-old Rivas was selected by Oakland in the fourth round of the 2018 amateur draft out of the University of Arizona. He was traded to the Cubs for infielder Tony Kemp in January 2020.
Rivas is primarily a first baseman, but he also has played the corner outfield spots. He hit .284 with four homers, 32 RBIs and a .405 on-base percentage in 58 games for Iowa.
"Fonzy made an impression last spring training, his first with us," Ross said. "Just a smooth glove over there. Controls the strike zone really well. Probably more of a line-drive hitter more than a power hitter, but he's having a good season."
CARLETON PLACE, ONT. -- The Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital Foundation has launched its $4 million community-driven campaign for a newly built Emergency Department.
The official kick-off took place Saturday at the Jock River Jam Music Festival near Carleton Place, Ont.
"We are a very rural municipality and country music is a big part of our culture," said Richard Kidd, Reeve of Beckwith Township. "It’s great to be able to do this now.”
The sound of country music reminds Carleton Place resident Lori Cavanagh of her late father Thomas, the founder of Cavanagh Construction who passed away in 2019.
"He’s here with us in spirit for sure,” said Cavanagh. "This is his type of event. Dad loved country music.”
For Cavanagh, the music festival was also an opportunity to help kick-off the Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital Foundation’s Healthy Futures Together campaign.
The hospital serves Carleton Place and its surrounding communities including west Ottawa.
"We’re raising funds for needed patient equipment and renovations to the hospital,” said Robyn Arsenault. "The current hospital needs a lot of development, starting with a $4 million campaign."
The foundation already raised $2.4 million. On Saturday, they received their biggest donation to date— $1 million from the Cavanagh family.
The foundation also announced the new emergency department would be named The Thomas Cavanagh Emergency Department.
"Having the emergency department named after my dad is just another way to honour his legacy of giving,” said Cavanagh.
More than 18,000 people walk through the emergency doors a year. That number is expected to grow in the coming years.
Construction on the $10 million state-of-the-art facility is expected to break ground in about a year, thanks in part to meaningful donations made by members of the community.
"He was my dad but to the community he was a larger-than-life guy. He was very generous. And we knew that," she said. “We really didn’t know about the gifts and help until after he passed.”
Excel Homes designs Scandinavian-inspired townhome community in Walden
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Maria Granja and her husband Harveer Sandhu love their home in Holland Park in Walden and its open design.Photo by Christina Ryan /Postmedia
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It was destiny that led Maria Granja and Harveer Sandhu to Calgary and to their first home as a married couple.
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Granja arrived three years ago from South America to study business at Bow Valley College. At the same time, Sandhu arrived from India to also study business at Bow Valley. They met in the first semester and sparks flew.
The couple had everything, yet nothing in common.
“I’m from Ecuador. We speak Spanish and most of the country is Catholic,” says Granja.
“And I’m from Punjab. We speak Punjabi and belong to the Sikh faith,” Sandhu says. “But it was meant to be.”
After a “COVID wedding,” the kismet that brought them together worked its magic by leading them to their first home. When the couple felt they were ready to buy, they used a realtor who happened to be Sandhu’s manager’s girlfriend. It was she who booked their first showing at Holland Park, a new townhome development by Excel Homes in the Genstar community of Walden.
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“Maria fell in love with the place at very first sight. It was hard to make her look at anything else,” says Sandhu.
Holland Park is a modern, contemporary European-style community on 210th Avenue S.E. The two- and three-bedroom, three-storey units with garages and covered decks are 935 square feet to 1,206 square feet, priced from the high $200,000s.
Granja and Sandhu purchased Plan R, one of the smaller of the five floor plans. The two-bedroom, two-bathroom home has a narrow footprint at just 935 square feet, which Sandhu says is perfect for the two of them. They took possession in May.
“There’s lots of natural light from one end to the other. This specific townhome felt more spacious than 935 square feet,” Sandhu says.
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“It was important. Both of us came from countries with so much daylight in all seasons,” Granja says in agreement.
Holland Park launched in 2018 and sales have picked up significantly in the last year. Excel has released two more buildings in the 20-building project ahead of schedule. There’s a good selection of each floor plan, with models available this summer and others pre-selling for possession this autumn.
Plans S2, S3 and Plan U have two-bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. Plan V is the largest with three-bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, starting in the $300,000s.
Each home has stacked laundry on the third level. Other features include floating vanities with undercabinet lighting and double sinks in the larger models.
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“We have units backing onto the community garden, some south-facing and some end units available. Overall, we’re more than halfway sold,” says Excel marketing manager Kristina Plank. “It’s a beautiful Scandinavian-inspired project. Each unit offers buyers room to grow with low maintenance and a community garden in the middle.”
Buyers can choose a light, medium or dark palette for their interiors. The three model homes, which opened in February, showcase each of the three types. The features are anything but standard.
“You don’t have to do much. If you wanted more upgrades, you could. But there’s quartz countertops, black fixtures, nine-foot ceilings and all showers are tiled with glass doors. Everything is done already,” she says.
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Holland Park is three minutes from shopping on 210th Avenue S.E. and 10 minutes north on Macleod Trail to the Somerset Bridlewood LRT Station with quick access to Deerfoot and Stoney trails.
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DEVELOPMENT: Holland Park
DEVELOPER: Excel Homes
COMMUNITY: Walden, in Calgary’s southeast
COMMUNITY DEVELOPER: Genstar
HOMES: Two and three-bedroom, 2 or 2.5-bathroom townhomes with garages
SIZE: 935 square feet to 1,206 square feet
PRICE: From the high $200,000s.
INFORMATION: Show homes are open by appointment only at 2434 210th Ave. S.E. or see virtual tours of most floor plans at excelhomes.ca/holland-park
For the last two months, a public washroom facility has quietly been operating at Dundas Place, on the south side of the street near Richmond Street in London, Ont.
The three gender-neutral washrooms, which are accessed through a locked door opened by a security guard, are available from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week.
It just brings more humanity to people that are experiencing a very marginalized life.- Steve Cordes, executive director, Youth Opportunities Unlimited
"I think it's such a wonderful move," said Steve Cordes, executive director, Youth Opportunities Unlimited. "It just brings more humanity to people that are experiencing a very marginalized life."
The washrooms at 179 Dundas St. are in the city's so-called field house, which was designed as a back-of-house location for events proposed for the newly minted street, long before COVID-19 hit.
But due to the pandemic, Dundas Place didn't come to life quite the way staff had anticipated, so the washrooms were sitting empty at a time when restaurants, coffee shops and the library all shut down, and life got more difficult for people experiencing homelessness.
"The two washrooms will be game changing for people who are experiencing homelessness," said Cordes. "Is it enough? No. Is it a step in the right direction? It's a huge step in the right direction — just the acknowledgment that this is an important consideration."
There are three individual gender-neutral bathrooms in Dundas Place's so-called Field House at 179 Dundas St. It is locked, but a security guard lets patrons in. (Rebecca Zandbergen/CBC News)
$300K cost to city
The Dundas Place bathroom facility, in conjunction with the washrooms in the bandshell at Victoria Park that are now also open daily from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., costs the city $300,000 a year.
That pays for a full-time security guard on Dundas Street and building attendants who clean the bathrooms.
The funding was approved through the London Community Recovery Network process, which identified ways to bolster the city after COVID-19 first locked it down.
About 60 people a day are using the facilities on Dundas Street, said Ryan Craven, the City of London's manager of core area programs.
"We are certainly serving the unsheltered and we are serving everyone," said Craven.
"It's certainly not intended as a service exclusively for that community," he added. "It's really to try to make Dundas Place a holistic environment welcoming to everyone that includes the unsheltered, and it includes the shoppers and the workers, and everyone in between."
The washrooms at the bandshell in Victoria Park are also now open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Rebecca Zandbergen/CBC News)
Ontario Premier Doug Ford stands at the podium as he makes an announcement at Toronto's Ontario Place, on July 30, 2021.
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Right-thinking people seem to agree that Premier Doug Ford’s plan for Ontario Place is a dud. It’s a sellout to commercial interests. It’s a squandered opportunity to create more parkland. It’s a waste of Toronto’s precious waterfront space. It’s an expensive, gaudy boondoggle. The most that critics can find to say about it is that it’s better than plonking a casino next to the lake.
Right-thinking people can be wrong. The plan promises to bring some pizzazz back to Ontario Place and draw throngs of locals and tourists down to the water.
Ontario Place opened in 1971. Built on constructed islands next to the Canadian National Exhibition grounds, it took its inspiration from the wildly successful Expo 67 in Montreal, beckoning people with a globe-shaped cinema and a string of pods suspended on stilts above the water. Visitors poured in for the popular waterpark and the concert amphitheatre. But Ontario Place lost its shine as the years went by – attendance plummeted and the province closed it down in 2012 for a big (and, it turned out, very long) rethink.
The result, announced by Mr. Ford last month, is exciting. To the relief of many, there will be no casino and no condos. Instead, the site will host three new attractions. One company, Live Nation, will rebuild and expand the old amphitheatre, keeping its famous sloping lawn where generations of concertgoers have sprawled, but adapting it to allow for indoor events in winter and in bad weather. Another, Écorécréo Group, will create an adventure park with ziplines, climbing walls and aerial obstacle courses. A third, Therme Group, will run a sort of megaspa and water park inside a giant glass house.
It looks pretty cool. You will enter through a pavilion of three transparent vaults in the form of a trillium, Ontario’s provincial flower. Local, international and Indigenous artists will create “experiential” installations there that might make use of the warmth of the sun and or the feel of the moving air. Thousands of plants and trees will give the complex a lush, greenhouse feel, a plus in dull Toronto winters. Visitors will bathe in a series of pools, walk through botanical gardens and dine on food grown on site.
And, yes, there will be waterslides. Despite the po-faced reaction, there is nothing wrong with that. Ontario Place was designed to be a stimulating, happening place, not just a pleasant lakeside park. The new plans are very much in that fun and forward-looking spirit. So is the innovative architecture and engineering. Therme says its project will meet top environmental standards.
The notion that the government is simply surrendering the site to private companies is way off the mark. The land will remain in public hands. Therme promises eight acres of public space around its project, including wetlands, biking trails and a new beach. The lovely Trillium Park at the opposite end of the site will remain, as will the pods and the Cinesphere.
Having private attractions in public spaces is hardly a new idea. Vancouver’s Granville Island draws big crowds to its market, restaurants, theatres and shops. Toronto’s Centre Island has an amusement park for kids. A leading Chicago destination, Navy Pier, boasts rides, tour boats, bars and food courts. If you go to a big-league sports event, you often find yourself in a privately owned stadium. Yet cheering on a team among thousands of others is one of the most public experiences you can have.
The new Ontario Place will mix public and private, to the advantage of both. Therme is to spend a staggering $350-million on its project, an example of private investment enhancing a public asset.
Lots of good things have been happening on Toronto’s waterfront, which is finally undergoing a renaissance after decades of abandonment and neglect. A series of creative new parks are springing up. The Port Lands at the east end of Toronto harbour are being reshaped and reimagined. Thousands of people are moving into new residential projects by the water, bringing life and motion to the area.
But the waterfront lacks a big draw like the London Eye Ferris wheel or Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay nature park – something with a bit of wow in it. The renewed Ontario Place could be just the ticket.
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HALIFAX -- University students are returning to Halifax to resume in-person classes for the first time since 2019, but many of them don't have a place to stay.
Some have resorted to renting hotel rooms until they can find something permanent.
Adele Arsenault has secured an apartment with some friends, but she considers herself lucky.
"There aren’t many options with pricing," says the fourth-year Dalhousie University student.
"You kind of just get what you get, it doesn’t matter how close you are to the university. I know a lot of people in my program and on my soccer team that are still scrambling to find spaces," Arsenault says.
Dalhousie University is only allowing first-year students in residence and, because of COVID-19, they have a no-roommate policy.
Because of their age, the vice president of the student union says finding an apartment is difficult.
"First-year students have faced very, very specific hurdles in terms of them being too young to sign leases, lease agreements," says Mazen Brisha.
Brisha says some have had to move into hotels until they can find something more permanent.
"Quite a few students that I personally know have resorted to staying in hotels for at least the first few weeks of the upcoming year," says Brisha.
Second-year student Dylan Keefe isn't one of them. Last year he was in residence but knew that finding a place off-campus this year would be a struggle so he began networking halfway through the year.
"Probably halfway through last year, so right after first semester I started looking," Keefe says.
A move that paid off, he's just a block from campus, making Keefe one of the lucky ones.
Plan on visiting Prospera Place in Kelowna? Better bring proof that you’re vaccinated.
On Friday, GSL Group, the company that operates the Okanagan’s largest arena, announced its support of B.C.’s COVID-19 proof of vaccination program.
A press release from the arena said, “As of September 17th, all guests, staff and employees will be required to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination prior to entering Prospera Place for all events including Kelowna Rockets games.”
The Rockets are the arena’s main tenant, and the Western Hockey League’s 2021-22 season begins Friday, Oct. 1.
Kelowna’s season starts on Saturday, Oct. 2, with a home game against the Everett Silvertips, though the Rockets will play five preseason games before then, including home dates of Sept. 17-18 against Victoria and Sept. 25 versus Kamloops.
“The health and safety of guests, staff and players is our top priority, and we support the BC proof of vaccination program revealed earlier this week,” said Gavin Parry, chief operating officer for GSL Group.
“We will continue to work with local health authorities to ensure we are implementing appropriate policies for the safety of our guests and staff.”
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Details regarding proof of vaccination and the entry process for Prospera Place will be announced prior to the Rockets’ first preseason game.
Earlier this week, the WHL said its five B.C. teams fully support the province’s COVID-19 proof of vaccination program.
“The Western Hockey League and our five member clubs in British Columbia fully respect and appreciate the position taken by the government of B.C.,” said WHL commissioner Ron Robison.
“We are committed to implementing these new required measures in each of our five B.C. communities.”
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