COBs on Bayview looking for hard-working baker

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The news is less than an hour old as the South Bayview Bulldog posts the word that COBS Bread is looking for a full-time baker. This  will be strenuous but agreeable employment for anyone who loves to bake. The job is at the Bayview Ave location next to Passion Fruit. COBs, a large Australian-based firm, will be looking for an experienced baker and someone who exhibits good customer relations. Warning, the shift might start at early as 2 a.m. and you have to be able to lift 25Kg. Apply on online

Mayor Tory buffeted by cold snap, trash collection

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The stance of Mayor Tory has been accommodative on this day that a homeless man died of exposure downtown. The man was well known to outreach personnel but its not clear whether he was reachable by them or not. But he was found dead in a bus shelter in Dundas Square this morning, both his life and his death a tragedy. This was followed by a typically cynical spectacle at City Hall by the poverty lobby. When it was over, everyone agreed that while it had not been cold enough to issue a cold alert, the City would do so anyway and open warming centres. 
NOT A MENTION OF GARBAGE STRIKES
The mayor has been a bit of a moving target on his promise to privatise garbage collection east of Yonge Street. Now, says the mayor, he’s taking a stand on getting the facts. Tempers flared at the works committee as privatization was added to the agenda at the last minute by public works committee chair Jaye Robinson. Many councillor have stories about the real savings, the loss of jobs and the control of garbage collection  (not sure what this means). Never a mention however of  city parks piled high with stinking garbage and the other pleasant events that always seem to happen when there is a Civic employees strike.  Picketers stopped residents from taking garbage to central dumps. There is no way of knowing, it seems, if the current discussion is material or mindless.

Logistics: Will there be enough hours in the day?

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There were 76 big delivery trucks ticketed yesterday in Mayor Tory’s zero-tolerance traffic improvement campaign  One of them was a FedEx truck, according to PC Clint Stibbe, Toronto’s media-friendly traffic guy. Stibbe is doing his job in exhorting delivery men to find other places to drop their cargo and many people will applaud tickets, fines and tow aways for illegal parkers. Stibbe says delivery trucks will have to find alternatives rather than park on the street.  Use the parking dock or deliver at night, are some suggestions. But the unknowns are staggering. There may not be a loading dock, businesses are not open at night and indeed, given the number of deliveries, there may not be enough hours in the day. Is it possible businesses will have to start scheduling for deliveries when they are normally closed? Will they be required to take shipments a day or two later than they want? Will Logistics become a forgotten concept? The vaunted goal of those UPS ads to deliver goods just in time seems set for a real test. An association representing Ontario truck drivers had asked the mayor to “revisit” his zero-tolerance policy on illegally parked delivery trucks. That appeal seems to have fallen on deaf ears. In response, the mayor is said to have remarked:  “Look it is a big city. There is going to be traffic. We just can’t have people on their own deciding that they are going to make matters worse, though, by pulling over to deliver an envelope or get a coffee,” he said.

Lightly-clad man dies in downtown bus shelter

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A man wearing a hospital bracelet was declared dead at St. Michael’s Hospital after he was found without vital signs in a bus shelter at Yonge-Dundas Square early Tuesday, December 6, 2015. The night was among the coldest of the year, so far. The man was wearing only jeans and a T-shirt. There was no information as to which hospital the bracelet originated. 

Watching the many moves of Mayor John Tory

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His Honour was on traffic congestion duty and had Works Commissioner Jaye Robinson (Ward 25) with him when his party hit a bit of ice on Queen St. Pictures taken and tweeted by veteran Sun photographer Mike Peake show Mr. Tory (lower left) trucking along with Councillor Robinson but there’s a hint of trouble ahead as a man in the background falls flat on his bottom. Main picture, the mayor artfully stays upright as he hits the ice. Lower right, Mr. Tory misses not a topic as his conversation with Ms. Robinson continues.