The South Bayview Bulldog

The La Roche luggage store at 1519 Bayview Ave has closed, apparently for good. The shop is dark and the inventory gone. La Roche has been running a sale for several weeks and some thought it was closing but The South Bayview Bulldog was told that this was not the case. The burdens of retail. 

March 2015 is six days away for whatever that may be worth. The unremitting cold of this February has spooked people with the the spectre of a never-ending winter. Another record has been broken today as a 43-year-old temperature mark falls. At 5 a .m. the temperature hit – 20.1 C at Pearson International Airport, breaking the previous record for February 23 of – 19.4 C (1972). But is the failure of even the slightest warming break through the deep winter weeks that has been the most wearing on people. Weather 

An outlandish video of a man with his face fully wrapped in a scarf appears to be a “casting call” for radicalized persons in Canada to stage some sort of shopping mall atrocity like the one committed in Nairobi, Kenya in 2013. In the video the man asks: “What if such an attack was to occur in the Mall of America in Minnesota, or the West Edmonton Mall in Canada?” The video is purportedly issued by the al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab. The RCMP have said they have no sense that such an elaborate attack is possible much less planned. As we know, such cries for ISIL-type killing parties have generated a handful of usually lone individuals. They are dangerous but usually not very well organized. The video seems to be an advertisement or casting call to such misfits as much as anything else. However it underlines the concern about the means by which people are radicalized, or perhaps more precisely co-opted into such bloodthirsty behavior. Terrorism specialists have recently tried to focus on the best way to detect such radicalization before it goes too far.

Some outdoor skating rinks across Toronto are closing this week, but a bunch of other rinks are remaining open.  Don’t get confused. The 29 rinks that are still available right through March Break are open with the assistance of two corporate donors Green for Life and MLSE. But there are 23 other rinks which are going to close for lack of municipal funds to maintain them. Rinks staying open. Rinks closing