Month: May 2015

Sherwood Park AGM set for Wednesday May 27, 2015

The Annual General  Meeting of the Sherwood Park Resident’s Association will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. The meeting will appoint a Board of Directors and a review matters in the neighborhood. The meeting will take place at The Sherwood, 2567 Yonge Street. This is the Toronto Community Housing Centre just north of Sherwood Ave. Councillor Jaye Robinson (Ward 25) and former East York mayor and federal MP Alan Redway will attend

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The Sherwood, 2567 Yonge Street

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Visitation, funeral and memorial for late David Stickney

The memorial page on Facebook for the late David Stickney has some dates that his many friends will wish to remember. There will be a visitation opportunity on Monday, May 18, 2015 between 4 and 8 p.m. in the William Lea Room at the Leaside Memorial Community Gardens. For those outside the community, that’s at 1073 Millwood Road. Mr. Stickney’s funeral will take place  Monday May 25 at 1 p.m.at Leaside United Church, 822 Millwood Road at McRae Drive. A Memorial will take place May 25 between 3 and 8 p.m. at the same church.

Toronto Police run pilot project with body cameras

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Toronto police will run a pilot project using three styles of so-called body-worn cameras to obtain what they say will be an “unbiased, accurate account” of interactions with the public. Apart from the likelihood that the video record of interviews and incidents will provide accurate information. it has been found in the U.S. that frequently the cameras have a considerable desirable moderating effect on both the public and police officers.

Hey South Bayview, you are being Google-mapped

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Street view to you too

There is a busy, busy Google Street View Car in South Bayview. It was reported three times yesterday. Here we see it courtesy a Bulldog reader at 1750 Bayview at Eglinton Ave. E. Also, below, Google has announced Friday (May 15, 2015) that its self-drive cars with no controls whatsoever will be out on California streets this weekend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqrttLPjv1E?start=22

Canada-U.S. link is The Gordie Howe International Bridge

The new international bridge between Windsor and Detroit will be known as The Gordie Howe International Bridge. Prime Minister Harper and Governor Rick Snyder made the announcement in Windsor Thursday afternoon alongside three of Howe’s children.

The bridge is estimated to cost $2.1 billion and will be the second bridge in the area linking Canada to the U.S. and is expected to be operational in 2020. The privately-owned Ambassador Bridge was finished in 1929.  Howe himself was not present.

He has been undergoing treatment after suffering a serious stroke. “Back in 2011, Gordie’s son, Marty Howe, told the Windsor Star that he wanted the bridge named after his father.“It would be a nice honour to have the new bridge named after Gordie as he was born in Canada,”

Marty wrote in an e-mail to the newspaper.“He crossed the bridge on his way to Detroit to start his long lasting hockey career.” According to the Detroit Free Press, the idea to name the bridge after Howe, now 87, came from an Ontario Trucking Association official, who suggested it at a hearing in Lansing, Mich., in the summer of 2010.

Pocket full of change still safest way to get a Starbucks

It isn’t nice to laugh at other people’s distress but the hapless owners of the Starbucks app must really wonder what they were doing when they got it. As told here, hackers can scarf hundreds of dollars from your bank account when you re-load your card. It remains a mystery to many why people want to load money up to fat-cat Starbucks for stuff its going to give them in a couple of weeks. Oh yes, Starbucks best advice to those still using the app is to create a stronger password. We love that. Let’s see, the closer to forgettable the better, right?  Or, you could just throw down a couple of loonies and get your coffee.

Ticket, towing skirmishes a way life on South Bayview

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Ticketing and towing — it is a way of life on South Bayview. Main picture sees a woman who “just went in and out to get some baby food” arguing with PKE27.  Inset, a towing dispute settles in on Hillsdale Ave the other night.  It  required the parking enforcement officer, a police officer, a supervisor and a tow truck. And the motorist and her children. What fun.

Shauna Hunt: Can an offer from CBS News be far off?

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Halifax Chronicle Herald

The Bulldog said she was owed a debt of gratitude from all civilized people but her own grit has done Shauna Hunt a world of good as her confrontation with the filthy language jackasses goes around the world with loving regard from fellow scribes everywhere. Can an offer from CBS be far behind? We hope for the best. Really. If one searches the name of Ms Hunt this Thursday (May 14, 2015) on Google News it yields no fewer than 25 pages of stories about this incident. That would beat the pants off just about any other story you can think of.