Happy Valentines Day. This entertaining video from the Public Broadcasting System in the U.S. explaining (maybe) why we kiss is more or less about love. You can decide for yourself just how much is “love” and how much of it is — well — you know.  The question ultimately goes unanswered because so much of what we do is about “you know” and the best explanation for that is because it’s how we’re made. Enjoy the day and be nice. 

It’s a compulsion that’s older than Canada but in the digital age unreconciled separatists use Photoshop to make their point. Canadian Olympic Committee photos of Chloe (left) and Justine Dufour-Lapointe have the mogul medalists dressed in Canadian colours. The girls say they are proud of the red and white. But the Fleur-de-Lis sham picture on the right is being distributed in parts of Quebec. As we said, older than old.    

Results have led to the declaration of the PCs as winners in the riding of Thornhill and the NDP as victors in the riding of Niagara Falls. The governing Liberals have been blanked out. To be fair, they were not seen as certain winners in either race but had hoped to take Thornhil which had been Liberal. Both ridings were vacant. The outcome may have an impact on the calling of a General Election this Spring sooner rather than later. 

Updating all those who might like to head north up Bayview Friday morning, the road is still closed tonight following last Sunday’s water main break. The 11 Bayview bus is detouring through Willowdale. Latest reports from Joan Chang and Trafficnet.ca on Twitter are just an hour or less old. Check it easily in the morning with the search “bayview finch”. Good luck. 

Canada and the United States continued their great women’s hockey rivalry at the Olympics Wednesday. Our ladies fought back from a 1-0  deficit at the end of the second period. Goals from Meghan Agosta-Marciano, Hayley Wickenheiser and then another from Agosta-Marciano to make the final Canada 3, USA 2. Thursday the men compete as Team Canada heads into medal competition with their first game against Norway. 

Canada Bread, perhaps the oldest name in bread-making in this country, has been sold by its parent, Maple Leaf Foods to Grupo Bimbo,  the largest bread-making company in Mexico. The price was $1.83 billion. Canada Bread is baked in Toronto and 21 other factories in Canada and the U.S. and United Kingdom.  The 103-year-old firm owns famous names such as Dempsters, Bon Matin and others. Maple Leaf Foods has had an interest in selling Canada Bread for some time so it can concentrate on its core meat packing business.  Shares of Canada Bread have surged 22 percent since October when Maple Leaf said it was mulling the sale. The purchase builds on Grupo Bimbo’s large U.S. acquisitions in recent years and strengthens its position as the top bread maker in North America. Bimbo has expanded its footprint in recent years, acquiring Sara Lee Corp’s North American bakery business for $959 million in 2010 and buying Hostess Brands Inc’s Beefsteak bread brand last year. Many will be mislead by the Mexican company’s name. The English language slang word bimbo has no recognizable connection with the same word in Spanish usage. According to the company history, it was coined in 1945 by mixing the words bingo and Bambi and has a somewhat child-like connotation. Today, Bimbo is synonymous with bread-making in the Spanish speaking world. Twitter

Police and EMS were called to South Bayview Ave. at Belsize Drive Tuesday evening (February 12, 2014) to attend to a collision. The call went out at 7.04 p.m. after a car that had been parked in front of Dollarama took off quickly. A car in the northbound lane swerved to avoid the first car as it pulled out. As bad luck would have it, the second car collided with a southbound vehicle. One man was apparently shaken up but no serious injuries have been reported.