The South Bayview Bulldog

Toronto Police held a news confernce Tuesday morning to appeal to citizens to help them figure out who built the mysterious bunker near the Rexall Centre tennis venue for the Pan Am games. Police say they don’t know of any reasons for the bunker, which appears to have been built by more than one person. The large bunker is 33 feet long and deep enough for a man to stand. Among the items found inside were fuel containers, a generator, a rosary with a remembrance poppy attached which was hanging on the wall. It appears that the media may have played a role in how police investigated this mystery. The easily formed question of why police did not wait to see if the bunker maker returned to the site was answered this way. Police knew the media was aware of the bunker and at some point it would be public. Did the media hinder the investigation? It is not clear. But police are very anxious to have anyone which information call them. The story was broken yesterday by the CBC local news.  Previous story. Why was this seemingly sinister bunker built? Big enough for people to walk around in (and prepare a terrorist attack?) Big enough to hold people hostage? Big enough to store weapons? Sure. Please don’t call us alarmist. These are reasonable things to think about on the discovery of this strange hiding place. Police are scheduled to talk about it this morning at police headquarters. Previous 

Dash cam catches brilliant display shortly before sunset from Moore Ave. at Bayview Ave as the sun sets over Bennington Heights and points west. This capture is timed at 5.47 p.m. Monday, February 23, 2015 ten minutes before official sunset time of 5.57 p.m.

Doctors in the United Kingdom have set the theory of allergy treatment on its head with a ground-breaking study that seems to change everything.  They say eating peanut products as a baby dramatically cuts the risk of allergy. Their work, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, tells of carefully controlled trials on 628 babies prone to developing peanut allergy. The outcome shows the risk to allergy was cut by an astonishing 86 percent. King’s College London researchers said it was the “first time” that allergy development had been reduced. But specialists warned at-risk families should not experiment with peanut products without medical advice. The research team in London had previously found that children in Israel who started eating peanuts earlier in life had allergy levels 10 times lower than their equivalents in the U-K. The trial focused on babies as young as four months who had already developed eczema — an early warning sign of allergies. Skin-prick tests were used to identify those who had not yet developed peanut allergy or had only a very mild response. Children under five should not eat whole peanuts, the researchers said, because of the risk of choking, so half were given a peanut-based snack. The other half continued avoiding peanuts. The research would seem to explain a commonly expressed concern of recent decades that cases of peanut allergy were increasing beyond anything seen in the early 20th century.