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Good evening, Jennifer Ward is off this evening.
Canadian industrialist E.P. Taylor has died at the age of 88.
Born in Ottawa, Edward Plunkett Taylor formed the Brewing Corporation of Canada in the 1930s
and after the Second World War he formed the Giant Argus Corporation.
But Taylor's first love was thoroughbred horse racing.
His horses won nine Queen's plates and his most famous horse, Northern Dancer, won the Kentucky Derby in 1964.
E.P. Taylor dead at the age of 88.
Metro police are investigating a triple stabbing tonight.
The incident occurred in a restaurant on Queen Street West at about 10.30.
Three people were stabbed. They have been taken to hospital for treatment.
It's believed the stabbings occurred during a fight.
No other details are available at this time.
House framers in Metro have accepted a new contract and will be back to work tomorrow ending a two week strike.
But as CFTO's Austin Delaney reports, the return to work may not last very long.
A little over 500 of the 2,500 laborers international union members voted only 57 percent in favor of accepting the two year contract.
It will see hourly paid framers get a 14 percent wage hike over the two years,
peace workers a 21 percent increase.
But today not everyone at the meeting was pleased with the terms of the contract.
Bruno Regal says even the negotiating committee was split.
Given the obscene profits that the builders have been making over the last two years,
we were really hoping for a better settlement.
Peace workers who represent about half the union are not happy with the deal at all.
They wanted extra money for more complicated and dangerous work.
They also wanted construction site conditions improved so they could work faster.
But union spokesman Michael Riley says there is a chance this deal could get thrown out
and frame workers who are going back to the job site tomorrow could be back off the job by Wednesday.
There's that possibility. The employers have to ratify the contract themselves yet.
And if they turn it down, I would assume that they would probably lock us out at that point.
The contractors meet for a vote Tuesday evening.
As well if they do turn it down, the Toronto Home Builders Association may shut down the entire industry.
Last week the association threatened to do just that if this dispute is not settled by Tuesday.
Austin Delaney, CFTO News.
A group of Estonian business managers arrived at Pearson International Airport tonight
to begin an East-West exchange.
The visit is being called historic.
Organizers say it will help open the way for more joint business ventures between Canada and the Soviet Union.
Twenty-eight business people from Estonia will spend three months in this country learning about capitalism.
In October, Canadian business people will spend ten days in the Soviet Union
learning about Estonian culture and legal aspects of doing business with the Soviets.
This is the pilot project for a group called the East-West Exchange.
One official called the USSR the largest untapped market.
It's estimated there could be $150 billion worth of pent-up purchasing power there.
Over 400 people gathered on the Peace Bridge this afternoon in Niagara Falls.
They were taking part in the 12th annual Mother's Day Walk of Life.
The anti-abortion activists came from both sides of the border.
They were calling on the Canadian and the American governments to introduce tough new laws prohibiting abortions.
The Canadian law was struck down in 1988 by the Supreme Court.
While the U.S. Supreme Court is now deliberating a case which could overturn the precedent set in the Roe vs. Wade case from the early 70s.
That case made abortion legal in the U.S.
Part of today's event included dropping red roses into the Niagara River.
The head of Canada's largest women's group charges that right-wing government policies are eating away at progress made by the feminist movement.
Lynn Kay says she's concerned about the future of the women's movement in this country.
We get more from Terry Marcotte in Ottawa.
They have been the hand turning the wheels of change.
Generations of women who fought for a new place in society.
There have been landmark victories along the way, beginning with the right to vote 70 years ago.
But momentum that picked up in the 70s and 80s as more women joined the workforce may be in jeopardy.
Now as the National Action Committee on the Status of Women holds its final annual meeting of the 1980s, there is real concern about the future.
It's always been hard to be a feminist.
The president of the group sees the federal government as the main attack on feminists.
We see a breaking of promises.
We were told that right after the election the government would embark upon a national child care strategy, and now they've just pulled all the money out from child care.
But the concerns go much deeper than child care.
Women at the conference see a shift to the right that could plunge more women, especially single parents, into poverty.
Karen Moorehouse works at a shelter for battered women in Ottawa.
She says women are still not treated fairly in the workplace, and she complains women are still too often victims of sexual assault.
For the situation to be better, when her daughter is an adult, she says women now can't sit back.
People falsely assume that the women's movement has done their work and that it's over, but certainly it is not over.
So as the 90s approach, there are concerns about a shift to the right that women are now preparing to fight.
There are fears that if women don't mobilize now, many of the gains made over the past few decades could be in jeopardy.
Terry Marcotte, CJOH News.
An unfortunate accident has left some red faces at a Scarborough car wash.
A compact car was out of gear and without a driver when it came out of the car wash late this afternoon.
There was no one around to stop the vehicle, so it just kept rolling along.
It rolled across Progress Avenue, through a fence and over an embankment, into Highland Creek.
Fortunately, no one was hurt.
Centenary Hospital held its seventh annual run today.
Billed as the Centenna Run, the five and ten kilometer races were held to raise money for the purchase of an isolate for the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.
The isolate is important in the care of premature and sickly babies.
Close to 3,000 babies are born at Centenary Hospital each year.
Over 500 of them require care in an isolate.
Today's run was held at the Metro Zoo.
Mother's Day is traditionally the day when you're expected to spoil your mom.
But for one Brampton mother, it was the usual hectic pace, keeping up with her three-year-old quadruplets.
CFTO's Susan Belton reports.
Elaine Sterck is one busy mom.
She has five children, all under the age of five.
The quadruplets, three girls and a boy, were premature and suffered serious respiratory problems at birth.
That's one of the reasons why Mother's Day, however hectic, is the day that Sterck gives thanks for their now healthy children.
But what's it like being in charge of such a crew?
Oh, exhausting, exciting, never boring.
And I have a great time.
I have had times when I've wanted to run away.
But I wouldn't change anything for any money, any time.
I'd do it all over again if I had to.
The children constantly buy for Elaine's attention, and giving all the kids their due can be tiring.
So while Mother's Day isn't exactly a day of rest, it is a day to take a bit of a break.
It is a bit of a special day. I get some time off. My husband takes over.
So I get to go out. But we still work.
For Elaine Sterck, there's nothing as rewarding as motherhood, except perhaps racing her Camaro.
Next weekend's family outing is a trip to see Mom and Dad at the track.
Elaine is hoping to groom one of the girls as the next Shirley Moldowney.
Susan Belton, CFTO News.
Over 30 of the hottest varsity and co-ed cheerleading squads from Ontario and Quebec
battled it out at the Harborfront Cheerleading Competition today.
The teams were scored on variety and difficulty of their tricks, on their timing and precision,
and on projection and clarity of voice.
Judges were also taking note of enthusiasm and crowd appeal.
And it was certainly beautiful weather for cheerleading.
We'll have details on the weather coming up in just a minute.
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Well, it was a beautiful weekend for getting outside and enjoying spring.
That is, if you were in the metro area.
A cold front over Ohio sent clouds and cooler temperatures to much of southern Ontario.
However, southeast winds from Lake Ontario kept the sky over metro clear for today.
We got up to a high of 16 degrees.
The weather office says it will continue to warm up as the week progresses.
Nothing showing up on our radar tonight, so let's skip ahead to the forecast.
Overnight there will be a few clouds and the low will be 8 degrees or 47 Fahrenheit.
On Monday we can expect much the same as we had today, some sun and some cloud with a high of 17 or 63 Fahrenheit.
Tuesday will be another spring-like day with temperature again of about 17, again a few clouds.
A high pressure system that's over Manitoba right now will bring some warm air with it as it moves into southern Ontario.
On Monday and Thursday we can expect sunshine and highs of 22 or 72 Fahrenheit.
At present under a partly cloudy sky the wind is calm, it's 9 or 48.
The barometer is 101.6 and rising.
The humidity is 82 percent.
Well, everyone was expecting a good close hockey game between the Calgary Flames and Montreal Canadiens and they gave us that tonight.
Yeah, you picked Calgary, is it because you worked there before?
Partly that, but also I'd like to see Lanny McDonald go home with a Stanley Cup ring after his career is over.
Yeah, you and the rest of the City of Toronto. It was a good game Bill, thank you.
Good evening everyone. After the opening period jitters, the Calgary Flames and Montreal Canadiens gave us what we expected in the Stanley Cup opener at the Saddle Dome tonight.
Close checking, four goals in the first period, then one in the second and none in the third.
The Flames want the bulk of those as they take game one.
This will undoubtedly be Lanny McDonald's last shot at a Stanley Cup as it was.
This was about as long a shift as he had all night, but his teammates played well though the Canadiens scored the first goal.
Just two minutes and 43 seconds in on a power play.
Stephane Richet with a good hard shot, one nothing.
The Flames tied it up on a power play of their own. The puck back to the point for Al McInnis.
The Flames leading scorer teed one up and beat Patrick Watts, 6-51, one all.
The nicest goal of the night here from the Flames off a three on one.
With Chris Cellios caught up the ice, Joel Otto to Al McInnis.
He lifted it high over a fallen wall, his second goal of the Stanley Cup final made it 2-1.
But again Montreal came back off a two on one. Larry Robinson centered the puck.
It went in off the skate of Jamie McCown at 10-02 it was two all.
The Flames thought they had their lead here.
The puck still loose as it was put into the net, but referee Andy Van Hellemond on a poor position couldn't see the puck and whistled the play dead.
In the second period with a game of two, goaltending at both ends was brilliant.
Mike Vernon of the Flames with a great save here.
Calgary came up with the only goal of the period off a two on two.
Thurman Flurry blew it by Waa Lowe, three to two Flames after 40 minutes.
And goaltending took over after that, Waa here on Colin Patterson who went around Chris Cellios.
And after Flurry gave it away, Mike Vernon came up big on Stephane Richet to keep Calgary ahead.
The last big glove save of the game here, the Flames hung on to win a good first game, three to two over Montreal.
In baseball, the Blue Jays trudge home from Minnesota tonight with some changes to make which should start with the manager.
The club displayed a very serious will to just roll over and die at the Metrodome today and die they did.
13-1 the Twins buried Toronto, sweeping a series for the first time since 1981.
Frank Viola started for the Twins. He hadn't won at home this season.
He was 0-5 going in, but he was sharp today with a career high tying 11 strikeouts.
The Twins kicked off the scoring second inning with Kent Herbeck and Gene Larkin on base.
Tim Laudner nailed a shot off Mike Flanagan deep to left center field.
Over the head of George Bell and off the wall, Herbeck scored, Larkin scored, and Laudner slid into third, 2-0 Minnesota.
It was 3-0 when Kirby Puckett came to the plate with Dan Gladden in scoring position.
Puckett, who had four doubles yesterday, got another one here.
Gladden came in to score, the route was on, Minnesota led it 4-0.
It was 5-1 in the fourth when the Twins added to their lead, Gladden on third base.
Gary Gayetti set a sack fly out to right field.
The play at the plate was close, but Gladden running in to catch her pat borders, knocked the ball loose.
6-1 Minnesota at this point, they added seven more and humiliated the Blue Jays 13-1.
Meanwhile at Anaheim, the California Angels got the jump on the visiting New York Yankees in the fourth inning.
With the game scoreless and Bryant downing at third, Wally Joyner, who has been struggling,
lifts it into right downing trots, home 1-0.
The Angels add to that here at the expense of Yankees starter Andy Hawkins and center fielder Bob Brower.
Ken Howell on base, Kent Anderson delivers a base hit right up the middle.
Brower goofs around at center and Howell scores from second 2-0.
Then with 2 out, Claudel Washington at the plate, he does the same thing, and again Brower has all kinds of trouble.
Out in center it looks like he's laying eggs.
Meanwhile, Bill Schroeder is scored from second and Anderson is charging hard.
First, he scores when the relay from Steve Sacks isn't even close.
4-0 California.
The final stroke from Chilly Davis in the fifth as the California Angels down Andy Hawkins and the New York Yankees by a score of 5-0.
So the Blue Jays aren't the only ones doing it.
The Jays have been swept five times so far this season. They are 12-24.
Pete O'Brien drove in three for the Indians, 8-3 at home to Detroit.
Ron Kittle went four for five for the White Sox by three in Baltimore.
Chuck Finley and Greg Minton combined to shut out the Yankees, 5-0.
Brewers won at Oakland by a score of 2-1 today.
Jim Presley broke a tie with a double as Seattle won by one.
Kurt Stillwell singled home the winner in the tenth for Kansas City, 3-2 the final there.
In the National League, the Montreal Expos kept pace with the New York Mets who were battling St. Louis for first place.
The Expos were just a game and a half out and home to San Francisco.
The Expos were trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the third inning when they got the bats going off starter Mike Kruko of the Giants.
Dennis Martinez on third and Tim Reigns on second for Andres Galarraga who buries one into the corner and left field down the line.
Martinez scores on the hip and Reigns on a throwing error, 2-1 Montreal.
Then Tim Wallach scores Galarraga from third base sending the ball the same way down the line and left.
This is also a double, 3-1 Expos.
And with the bases loaded and still just one out, Kruko walks Mike Fitzgerald.
That scores another 4-1 Montreal on four runs in the third inning.
The Giants climb back into it on the top of the fourth.
Kandy Maldonado hits his second solo home run of the day off Dennis Martinez.
This makes the score 4-2.
The Giants manage to get one more on the seventh but that's all as Martinez, Tim Burke and the Expos hang on to win it 4-3.
Pulsate the National five hitter through eight for Martinez.
The Expos are 20-17.
Louis Salazar's error with the bases loaded sent the Mets a win today.
The Reds continue to play well atop the West now one and a half games up as San Francisco lost.
Earl Hershiser tossed a two hitter for the Dodgers who had lost three in a row, nine nothing there.
John Smoltz is six and two for the Braves, five to two at Pittsburgh.
And Mike Scott for the four hitter for the Houston Astros, they win by a score of five to one.
A great finish to the Memorial Golf Tournament in Dublin, Ohio today as Fuzzy Zeller who led by a stroke going in and Bob Tway who was charging gave us quite the show.
Tway began the day one off the pace set by Zeller but he tied the veteran here on the 13th with a great putt to go eight under for the tournament.
Tway would end the day birdieing three of the last four holes.
This was his approach to the pin on 14 inches away, good for the temporary lead at nine under par.
Fuzzy Zeller staged his own comeback on the next hole.
He needed this putt for a birdie, a great putt on 16 and a tie at nine under.
But Tway would not be put off this day.
This is his approach on the 17th, another perfect shot.
And again just inches from the hole, Tway would birdie this and go to 10 under par.
That about did it but just to make sure on the 18th leading by one, Tway buried it with this putt for another bird 11 under and the Memorial Tournament for Bob Tway by two strokes.
On track Danny Sullivan who broke his forearm and suffered a mild concussion in a crash training for the Indy 500 on Thursday is out of hospital now.
He'll wear a cast and get back driving maybe by Wednesday.
Today two records fell, the first the fastest track marked in qualifying ever by Al Unser Sr.
Who came through on an average of 223.471 miles per hour on the first day's run.
That only held until later in the day when Rick Mears took to the track.
Mears Yellow Number 4 Penske Chevy raced through the four laps in another record breaking Unser's 223.885 miles per hour.
So Mears is on the hole with Al Unser and Emerson Fittipaldi.
Canada's Ludwig Heimrath Jr. made the sixth row more than 213 miles per hour.
Thunder Bay's John Jones made row nine, the rookie clock more than 214.
That's a rookie record.
Something you don't see every day came to Exhibition Stadium this afternoon as two of the top three cricket teams in the world put 20,000 into the seats to watch.
CFDO's Stu Bundy was there.
A beautiful sunny day greeted the Indian and Pakistani national cricket teams as they took to a makeshift pitch at Exhibition Stadium.
The teams who are playing a series of one-day exhibition matches across North America had to become familiar with playing on AstroTurf.
Obviously it's not the right surface to play cricket on.
I mean, cricket is played on turf.
But I think it's going to be exciting because it's going to be a very true, wicked and tall scoring match, which means that the crowd is going to enjoy it.
The national cricket teams from Pakistan and India are two of the best in the world, and this marks the first time either team has ever played in Canada.
We find Indian team working in West Indies and Pakistan team just finished from New Zealand and they were sitting home.
So I tried and my other friends in New York, we put them together and bring them here.
A large enthusiastic crowd showed up to get a glimpse of the international stars of the sport.
The teams are now off to Los Angeles.
Stu Bundy, CFO Sports.
Finally, notes tonight include the Chicago Bulls of the NBA downing the Knicks 106-93 tonight.
The Bulls lead their East playoff three games to one.
Detroit over Milwaukee 110-90. Pistons lead 3-1.
Lakers over Seattle 97-95. They were down by 29 at halftime.
The Lakers win in four straight.
Baseball, the Toronto Maple Leafs top London 8-1 and the Inter-County opener and Damascus Dan won the $100,000 added.
Queenston's sakes at Woodbine paid $9, $10, $3 and $2.40 and I'm out of time Bill. That's all for now.
Thanks Lance. We're back with more right after this.
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So where's the surprise? In a minute.
First this baby picks up stuff like nails and glass like a regular shop vac.
So where's the surprise? And like a regular shop vac wet dry, it also picks up water.
So where's the surprise? Just watch. You twist the top, lift it off and you've got a portable blower.
A surprisingly powerful blower.
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Yep, trouble. Look at these new fax machines. And these cellular and home phones.
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Two Canadian astronauts are in training in hopes of being the next Canadian selected to go on a US shuttle flight.
Details in this report.
These scientists are experiencing zero gravity in the pursuit of research.
In preparation for a real space mission and weightlessness, they're simulating conditions by flying in a plane which has dropped 8,000 feet in just half a minute.
We can actually do this 20 times out on the way out from the airport and 20 times on the way back.
So it's like this big roller coaster in the sky and people are probably well aware of the nickname.
It's got a vomit comet for obvious reasons.
By going up in space, scientists may be able to discover solutions to problems on Earth.
This Vancouver experiment is on the technique of separating living cells.
It may have application to the treatment of leukemia and other cancers.
This experiment will try to discover why 70 percent of all astronauts experience back pain while in space.
We hope to learn more about the biomechanics of the spine and how the spine does change.
We all change in height from night to morning. We all change in spinal shape during the day.
If in fact there is some involvement of the spinal cord and the spinal nerves with that change in height,
then that has direct application to a number of other surgical areas where we look at function of the spinal cord.
There's a special camera the astronauts are being trained to use.
Part of the mission time will be spent photographing and measuring the spine.
We are practicing the various positions to get us used to sort of what it was like to move around,
to do these positions to see how far we could have our legs being stretched and bent
and how easy it was to move from one position to the other.
Bondar is one of four astronauts and the only woman training for the February 1991 launch.
Ken Money of Ontario is the other Canadian.
There's been a lot of attention focused on NASA in recent years because of setbacks it has suffered,
but Bondar is still eager to participate.
The plans in the program are slightly different. It's still a life-long goal of mine to see the stars and be close to the Earth,
but it's another one now to show the international community that Canada is a very active participant
and a very good participant in the space program.
Bondar and Money will find out next year if they'll be the next Canadians on an American shuttle mission to space.
Fans of Miami Vice have been snapping up all kinds of props as that series comes to a close.
The series has details on that and more on tonight's edition of the Weekend Stars.
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Everyone has a different way to wind down after a hectic day.
Paul Newman likes to race high-powered cars at dangerous speeds after a day on the set.
Newman is in Louisiana filming the movie Blaze, and a local racetrack owner says he opened his facility for the actor three times last week
so he could unwind by racing his car around the dirt track.
Lenin Stadium in Moscow will be the site of a special benefit concert for drug abuse programs on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
American hard rock bands Bon Jovi and Motley Crue will join West Germany's Scorpions and Russia's Gorky Park on August 12th and 13th.
A related studio album will be released in August.
Singer Laurie Yates will join several other entertainers for a night of performances in solidarity with prisoners of conscience.
The event will take place Thursday, May 18th at 9.30 at Clinton's on Bloor Street West.
The event is sponsored by Amnesty International.
The final Miami Vice episode was filmed April 27th, and since then fans have rushed to North Miami Warehouse to buy various props from the show,
including a mock electric chair, art deco furniture, and hundreds of pink flamingos.
The hit series began in 1984, and the last episode will air May 21st.
And that's the Weekend Stars.
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And that's our report for this Sunday evening. I'm Bill Hutchison for Lance Brown and the rest of the CFTO News team.
Thank you and good night.
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