Month: March 2018

Good enough for a passport

March 10 in Mississauga

Peel police have released video of two burglars recorded March 10 near Eglinton Ave West and Dubonet Dr. in Mississauga. The video is here and shows the lead perpetrator carefully removing shards of glass from a smashed sliding door. He then enters and poses for this apparently quite good likeness. As posted to CP24 the perp speaks in Spanish after spotting the camera pointed right at him. He grabs it in an apparent effort to disable it. He asks the other suspect named Carlos for assistance. But it was all too late. The two made off with jewelry and various electronic items. Investigators are appealing for witnesses, or anyone who may have information concerning this investigation to contact 11 Division Criminal Investigation Bureau at (905) 453-2121 Ext 1133. Information may also be left anonymously by calling Peel Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), or by visiting www.peelpolice.ca.

Police block station as bomb squad works

Member dons heavy protection to handle package

The TTC has announced that service has resumed at the Yonge and Bloor Line 1 and 2 stations after a three-hour delay related to a package. TTC official tweets are here.

ALL CLEAR: The delay at Bloor and Yonge Station has now cleared and full service has resumed on the Line 1 and Line 2. #TTC

— TTC Service Alerts (@TTCnotices) March 31, 2018

The flattering story published by Toronto Life of the Leaside Airbnb couple known in the article only as “Paul and Meg” has drawn mixed reaction from other Leaside homeowners in posts at Leaside Community. One has calculated that the home would have had to be rented 65 nights a year in order to earn the stated income of $60,000 at $925 per night. “Not sure I’d be thrilled to be their next-door-neighbor,” he says. Patrick Rocca adds: “Their crazy to have done this interview.” He gives reasons and they aren’t hard to guess at. But others ask why the two should be embarrassed to be Airbnb renters. As The Bulldog said earlier, this will not be everyone’s cup of tea.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for a wide swath of the region, including Hamilton, Caledon and Orangeville. They say that strong southwesterly winds will develop this afternoon ahead of the arrival of a cold front. According to the special weather statement, gusts will reach 70 kilometres.

NO WINNING LOTTO MAX

No winning ticket was sold for the $10 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on April 6 will be approximately $15 million.

Davisville Easter Egg Hunt

Shirley was active in the community

Let’s look in here

Parents socialize

Swings are fun too

Hundred of children foraged for 3,000 hidden eggs in Davisville (June Rowlands) Park Saturday. The event was sponsored by Meridian Credit Union on Mt. Pleasant Rd. and organized by Lesley Stoyan of AppleTree Markets. Husband Chris Trussel is known to transform into the Easter Bunny.

At Council

Elected first in 2010

At Dieppe Park for Leaf’s outdoor practice

Mary Fragedakis, the two-term Councillor in Ward 29 (Danforth) will contest the newly-created Ward 34 in the 2018 Toronto municipal election. Ms. Fradedakis won both the 2010 and 2014 elections handily (about 40 and 60 percent of ballots respectively) and is a personable and energetic politician. Her political sympathies seem eclectic although she has in the past been said to have NDP inclinations. All of this will be reviewed by voters in Moore Park and Rosedale who now become part of the horizontally-postioned ward. It stretches from the Yellow Creek, Yonge St and Rosedale Valley Rd on the west to Coxwell Ave (with variations) on the east.  Before her entry into politics, Fragedakis was involved for  nine years with Open Dialogue, a conference and seminar organizing company. She is also one of the founders of the Broadview Community Youth Group. Fragedakis graduated from the University of Toronto in 1996 with a Master of Arts in political science. Ward tutorial for voters, politicians as OMB okays new map

OTHER NEWS

• Three Canadian provinces now allow Sikhs to ride motorcycles without helmets
• French police charge Pippa Middleton’s father-in-law with rape of a minor

Easter Egg hunt from 2016

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Saturday at Regent

Brisk but bright weather prevailed for the Saturday afternoon Easter Egg Hunt at June Rowlands Park at Mt. Pleasant and Davisville Ave. It following a screening of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at 11 a.m. in the Regent Theatre. Later post 

Revised proposal for Scrivener Court

The proposed Scrivener Court development on Yonge St. south of the North Toronto railway station (now and for decades a liquor store) has been presented to the City’s Design Review Panel (DRP) and has apparently found some favour. The proposal put forward by Diamond Corp and Tricon Capital has been reduced five storeys to a height of 21 floors. It is a mixed use concept which as reported by Urban Toronto would create “create an enhanced and pedestrian-friendly heart’ for the Summerhill neighborhood.” The revised proposal was also presented at a public meeting March 20. The number of rental units has been reduced to 141 from the original 182 and a 332 square meter public park has been added to the proposal. Councillor Krystin Wong-Tam said she had not seen the revised proposal before the session and declined to state whether she supports it. An original, taller proposal is before the Ontario Municipal Board following an appeal from Diamond which has said it would withdraw the appeal if the new proposal were approved by the City.

• Posters fight plan to “blot out” North Toronto station clock

Mayor and Councillor thank Hall 322/Mayor Tory

Gingerdead Men/Apiecalypse Now

Busy Summerhill Market/Bulldog

Honour Emmy and give blood Wednesday

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Saturday at Regent

In-road signs at Davisille/Moke Lachbat @leach_leach

Leaside High bike theft/LHs

Mayor Tory and Councillor Fragedakis (Ward 29) began Good Friday by dropping in at Hall 322, 256 Cosburn Ave., to thank firefighters for the marathon job of providing water to tenants at 49 Thorncliffe Park Drive this week. Then upper right, who said Vegans don’t have a sense of humour. Certainly not the estimable Joanna Lavoie as she visited Vegan grocer Apiecalypse Now where they sell these Gingerdead Men cookies. It’s at 862 Pape. Below that, the busy scene at Summerhill Market on Friday. The store at 442 Summerhill was open from 9 a.m. til 7 p.m. Across the bottom from the left, important notices starting with a reminder to give blood Wednesday at the semiannual Leaside Blood Clinic at Northlea School. Next to that is a poster for movie fun Saturday (tomorrow) at the Regent Theatre on Mt. Pleasant Rd. Meridian Credit Union has arranged to show Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and it is free. Among the notable residents talking about these in-road safety signs is Holland Bloorview CEO Julia Hanigsberg. There’s one outside Davisville Public School. Lastly, the parking for cars and bikes is tucked away off Hanna Rd. at Leaside High School. A post to Leaside Community reports that one lad had his red mountain bike stolen Thursday after the lock was cut.

Yosemite Sam

Cornish pasty

Ri Sol-ju

It’s open season on mustachioed John Bolton, the new candidate for US national security advisor, as he is compared to everyone from Yosemite Sam and Captain Crunch. A Jeanne Moos laugh-fest. Then, maybe Ri Sol-ju didn’t have much of a choice in her marriage to Kim Jung-un. But Ri is now a fashion sensation in China since she accompanied Kim to that secret meeting in Beijing. Even little despots can ride the coattails of a pretty wife. Then, the CBC chronicles fears for the future of the Cornish meat pie (or pasty). And finally, truck terrorism protection comes to Toronto as authorities beef up barriers around Rogers Centre.

Looking north from Millwood on west side of Bayview Ave/Google

Avery Barker has posted pictures on Leaside Community which show the street at what appears to be the turn of the decade (1980). There are three photos posted and they are quite a wayback playback. They recall a time when there was a Shell station on the southwest corner and construction had not yet begun on the Canada Trust building. These shots look north from Millwood. They show the long gone “Jug City” and the Yeoman Steak House (soon to be McSorley’s). There is also a glimpse of the fairly recently opened Bonnie Byford Real Estate which is still there. For those with good eyes, the top shot shows a National Trust branch in the building now housing Scotiabank and further south on the east side what is probably Bruno’s. Long time ago when pictures were not taken with a phone. Many thanks to Mr. Barker for posting these pictures from Google. Bonnie Byford Real Estate

Nice parking