South Bayview Bulldog Admin

Hydro outages may last into the late night

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Toronto Hydro says it is doing its best to find and repair power outages Wednesday night. But it has tweeted a warning that there are so many reports that it may be “late into the night” before they do. There are transformer fires and wires down in the northwest sector of the Toronto and outages caused by a falling wires. Main St and Danforth Ave. was the scene of a blaze which has left customers in the dark there. Another tweet says there is widespread darkness in the North Forest Hill area after a loud explosion (presumably a transformer) on Avenue Rd north of Lawrence Ave. W.

Busy life of South Bayview’s Carolyn Jarvis of Global News

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South Bayview’s Carolyn Jarvis is a seasoned reporter and anchor for Global News. Most people might say she has already seen enough excitement for one lifetime.  But as Chief Correspondent for Global’s public affair program 16×9, (seen Saturdays at 7 p.m.) the 34-year-old Carolyn knows the phone could ring at any time directing her to cover a story in some distant corner of the world. Maybe that’s why she values her home turf, the  “warm and friendly” shops and businesses of South Bayview. She knows it well. Among frequent stops is the handy and well-stocked Valu mart at Bayview and Davisville. A typical day stolen from the office will see Carolyn in and out of Bestway Cleaners, Write Impressions, de la mer, Kim’s Nail Salon and Alex Cheese, to name a few. A favourite shopping spot for Carolyn is Your Clothes Friend. “I just can’t say enough about the service,” she said, recounting special favours and smart retail relations on the part of owner Wendy Goldman.

TOP OF HER GAME

Ten years into a career reporting for Global News, Carolyn Jarvis is at the top of her game professionally. Like all successful television personalities she has worked hard to achieve her success and finds the hard work just keeps on coming. With it all, Carolyn is at home on Merton Street with her partner Bill Vlaad and his two children, boys aged 8 and 10. Like all kids they find the allure of Hollywood Gelato irresistible, she finds. A stop at Alex Cheese to pick out a favourite or two is also sometimes on the trip up to Manor Road and back. Carolyn’s time at home in South Bayview often includes a meal at Riz. Mr. Vlaad’s firm, Vlaad and Company, specializes in the recruitment of personnel in the investment banking industry.

BACHELOR OF MUSIC

Add to Carolyn’s accomplishments a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance. She broke into television with this considerable talent before deciding her forte would be news. And yet her training as a lyric soprano and love of light opera sometimes make her long for an opportunity to sing publicly, even in a local ensemble. No doubt many would be eager to have her. But the demanding and unpredictable schedule of Carolyn Jarvis would spell disappointment she fears. The Global profile of Carolyn reminds us of how she really spends her time: “Her work, ranging from investigative to feature reporting, has won numerous awards – including a national RTDNA award for her profile of Cirque du Soleil’s casting department.”

Ford turned down cops offer to view “crack video”

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CP24 

Joe Oliver to be named new Finance Minister

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Joe Oliver

Joe Oliver, the MP for Eglinton-Lawrence, will be Canada’s new Finance Minister. Mr. Oliver will replace Jim Flaherty.   He has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and worked as an investment banker, starting his career with Merrill Lynch. Oliver, 73, has also served as the executive director of the Ontario Securities Commission, and the CEO of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada. Eglinton-Lawrence was created in 1976 from parts of Eglinton, St. Paul’s, York Centre, York South, and York West. Federally, it was represented by Liberal Joe Volpe from 1988 to 2011, and by Mr. Oliver since the 2011 federal election. On Toronto City Council, the western half of the riding is represented by Josh Colle (Ward 15) and the eastern portion by Karen Stintz (Ward 16).  w/Wikipedia

Tunnels from Brentcliffe to Yonge done by 2016

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An early crowd of about 300 wandered along the parade of placards on tripods at the Metrolinx information meeting held Tuesday night in the William Lea Room at Leaside Gardens. The meeting was sponsored by John Parker (Ward 26) though it appeared to be a fairly standard Metrolinx meeting, much like the kind held elsewhere in the vicinity of South Bayview. Residents came to marvel and argue about the transit project known as the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rapid Transit. There were instructional cards on the pace of work, cutaway views of the stations at Bayview and Laird and point by point explanations of how Metrolinx will try to help us cope during the forthcoming mess. One catchy bullet-point from the provincial transit authority was that tunnel boring from Brentcliffe Rd. to Yonge Street will be completed by 2016. A few people thought this was nonsense but in fact it doesn’t seem too unlikely. The joker in the pack, as some might say, will be the station construction at Bayview and Laird (and Mt. Pleasant by the way). These structures will stretch hundreds of feet both above and below ground. It will be necessary to “cut and cover” everything built below ground at these sites. It is a process that will frequently bring traffic and commerce to a dead halt through these intersections. It was ever thus in such construction. As has been noted elsewhere in the Bulldog, the Bayview stop will have a main station on the site of the McDonald’s on the southeast corner. A second entrance will be built in the Metro parking lot. In a reversal from early planning, there will be no entrance from Sunnybrook Plaza. This change may reflect the desire of the plaza’s owner, Rio.Can, to keep its re-development options open for this corner. At Laird, both stations, west and east of Laird, will be on the south side. The main entrance will be on the southwest corner where the small strip mall housing the Great Canadian Bagel now sits. A secondary entrance will be built to the east of the Pier One building in the parking lot of Rio.Can’s Leaside Shopping Centre. 

Macaron Day on South Bayview a good cause

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Thursday March 20, 2014 is Macaron Day across Toronto and on South Bayview Ave. It is an occasion to help  the famous Red Door Family Shelter. Again this year Rahier Patisserie, 1586 Bayview, and Patisserie de Cigogne, 1626 Bayview, will offer customers a free macaron on that day. Terms may vary but it is usually expected that the consumer will purchase other macarons. It is from that purchase that the retailer makes a contribution to the Red Door.  www.reddoorshelter.ca

Jim Flaherty resigns as Finance Minister

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Canada’s internationally respected Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is resigning that post and leaving the cabinet. He will return to the private sector, he said. Mr. Flaherty released  a statement late Tuesday saying he feels fulfilled. Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a statement of his own, saying he had accepted Flaherty’s decision “with great reluctance.” Flaherty said the decision to leave politics is unrelated to his health, but is instead simply “the right decision for me and my family at this time.” Flaherty, the member for Whitby-Oshawa has suffered for some time from a painful skin disease.  It is apparently not fatal but is very uncomfortable. Flaherty’s replacement will be named Wednesday.  

Rosedale resident reports mink coat taken

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A resident of Scarth Road (Rosedale) reports to police that between 8.30 and 10.30 p.m. on Monday, March 17, 2014, a mink coat was removed from a restaurant in the area of Yonge Street and King Street East.  This is not a nice St. Patrick’s thing to do. 

GM recall: CEO says ‘terrible things happened’

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Reuters

Ford blithering, vulgar and hilarious (to some)

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Mayor Ford has had another one of his “You may be perfect but I’m not” moments outside City Hall Saturday. He was blithering away and unloading vulgar verbal stink bombs in front of kids. The story is all complete from reporter Natalie Johnson except to say that whatever the mayor’s bleeped outburst some bystanders found it hilarious, as you can tell from loud guffaws off camera. It’s instructive that the lady whose 13-year-old shot this video opened her shouted remarks to the mayor by saying she thought he was “awesome.” Certainly. And the mayor used his “I guess you don’t drink” trick on Ms.Johnson but she didn’t fall for it. We were only a moment of petulance away from — all together now — “You may be perfect, but I’m not.”  

Hodgson Rink to be repaired for 2014-15

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Josh Matlow (Ward 22) has announced that Toronto has signed a ten-year lease on the Hodgson Senior Public School Ice Rink on Davisville Ave. The rink is one of a few artificially supported outdoor rinks in the city and has been out of use this season– at least officially — because of needed repairs to the aging facility. But with the Toronto District School Board’s agreement to lease the rink, the City will now proceed with an estimated $2 million in repairs. It expects to have Hodgson Rink back in service for the fall of 2014. The lease also has a two year notice clause which means it seems likely that the rink will be in service for at least 12 years. It sits on TDSB property and Hodgson is an aging structure. Built in 1915, it’s nearly a century old. The future of the present school building probably can’t be predicted much beyond the term of the lease. Any decision to replace it or make major changes would probably mean the end of the rink at that site. 

Carbon monoxide kills 3 in Brampton home

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Three are dead and two in hospital after apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in a Brampton Home. Propane heaters were brought into the house to keep it warm after the furnace stopped working over the weekend. CBC