Looking for a Preschool or JK placement? Not sure about public school and considering private options? Did you know you have an excellent neighbourhood choice right under your nose? Find out why Children’s Garden School on Eglinton Ave. E. at Hanna Rd. may be a great fit for your child at their Open House this Thursday. RSVP tokscott@cgsschool.com. Visit cgsschool.com to learn more.
There will be an opportunity to remember and celebrate the life of Ray Ratchford on Sunday November 8 at Original’s Ale House in Toronto. It goes from 1 to 3 p.m. Originals is located at 1660 Bayview Ave. in Ray’s “hood”. Ray Ratchford memorial Bayview regular Ray Ratchford found dead at home.
The Toronto Star may be your best bet to understand the published labours of something called the Ecofioscal Commission relating to congestion and tolls. The commission’s conclusion is full of hope that the answer to congestion is tolls The Ecofiscal thinkers have coined the expression “Congestion Pricing”. Okay. Tolls are certainly a solution to raising revenue. But our simplest brain process will tell us that congestion is always with us. There are ways to manage it but even Manhattan and the City of London have congestion despite high and multiple charges. Congestion Pricing may be a solution posing as a miracle. An alternate perspective is offered by some that Toronto’s congestion problem is mostly whining. Hey, just saying. On a minor note, Star writer Tess Kalinowski has fallen for the corruption of the word gridlock to describe congestion. It wouldn’t matter except there is something called gridlock and it needs a name. And you’re right Nothing really happened in this post.
City Council will decide if these homes make way for 80 townhouses
City Council has a large agenda as it sits down tomorrow (Tuesday, November 3, 2015). It will be asked to approve or deny the plan to build 80 townhouses on Keewatin Ave in a space that now occupies 12 or so single family homes between 200 and 214 Keewatin. The project has already been turned down by North York Community Council. There are items about the use of hookah pipes at designated locations, the tax status of the Aga Khan Museum and the heritage status of the old Coca Cola offices at 42 Overlea (NY-9.26 and 27). This will be related to a decision on whether to permit the construction of a Costco store at this address.
Loblaws and Joe Fresh are urging anyone who purchased this quilted baby jacket to return it for a full refund as concerns arise that the buttons can be pulled off by children. One instance of a child putting a button in his mouth has been reported. Loblaws says it is recalling all striped, Joe Fresh-branded jackets that bear the style code BBF5OT4316. The company said young children may be able to pull the buttons off and possibly choke on them. In Ontario sales have been on since September at Joe Fresh, Real Canadian Superstore, Fortinos, Loblaws, No Frills, Your Independent Grocer, Zehrs and JoeFresh.com. CBC
The normally down-to-earth Marcus Gee has written a tortured column about how people who live in Toronto don’t love it but says Gee (incredibly) “one man is fixing to change all that.” The man is Aubrey Drake Graham known to many — well okay millions — as Drake. Salvation is at hand apparently. Read it if you must but remember it is hard to get into the Globe and Mail unless you ante up somehow or jigger them into text via Twitter. Twelve readers have commented at this posting and most of them seem underwhelmed by their impending deliverance. One says “ehh—no” while another snarls “I used to have a lot of respect for you, and you’re just a teenie-bopper after all. Next: How Drake invented the Internet”
Police have clarified the events as best they can of the shooting on Charles Street near Yonge St early on the morning of October 31, 2015. A man was shot in a volley of bullets fired by unknown persons as he sat behind the wheel of his car near a nightclub. The victim, mortally wounded, drove away from the scene but crashed his car at College Street. Charles Shillingford, 25, was taken to St. Michael’s Hospital where he died. Police say they don’t believe the shooting was gang-related but that Shillingford is known to them. The Homicide Squad is continuing to interview witnesses and obtain security camera footage of the area of Yonge Street and Charles Street. Members of the public are urged to call if they have any knowledge of the events surrounding the shooting or subsequent collision.
The province is on tenterhooks tonight waiting to see what the Premier, school boards and elementary teachers will do Monday, November 2, 2015. As everyone knows, Ms. Wynne is on record as saying she will authorize the boards to dock teachers pay if the public schools are not running normally tomorrow at 9 a.m. Countless writers have stated the truth. The conduct of the union, the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, is wholesale robbery of the public as teachers continue to collect pay while effectively shirking their work. The conduct of the government has aided and abetted this irresponsible behaviour at the secondary level by handing over millions dollars to the unions for “expenses”. When did a union’s expenses become a cost to the public? There is really only one word for it. Scandalous. We know there are many teachers who are embarrassed and unhappy by their union’s position. Can they find their voice?
The Leaside Wildcats lengthened their unbeaten season to eight games in what looks to have been an interesting 2-0 tilt against the London Devilettes Sunday in London. (Wildcats own one tie). Just reviewing the boxscore online reveals that all the scoring occurred in the third period. Siobhan Birch assisted by Megan Pardy got the first goal at 4:19 followed by Emma Pye with an assist from Birch. They potted the puck into an empty net as London opted for six attackers at 18:47 of the third. Danielle Toland was in the net for Leaside. Boxscore
The most starkly grisly bit of grusomeness seen by The South Bayview Bulldog this season are the two chopped off arms playing a piano at Paul Hahn’s sales and tuning business on Yonge St. at Gibson Ave. Truly horrifying and many giggles all at the same time. The scary demise of Mrs. Filmore and daughter Betsy contrived by the master story teller of Belsize Drive is the challenger. There are many fine pumpkin creations around South Bayview but pumpkins are not necessarily so very fatal. One exception to this is the pumpkin carried by the headless horseman of Washington Irving’s classic woo woo tale, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Although the BBC would have us believe that the pumpkin became popular because Irish immigrants used to make lamps out of them, we think the cursed — and fatal — orange gourd hurled by the horseman at Ichabod Crane may have done more to popularize the pumpkin as a demonic essential of Halloween.
A very nice Toyota bumped into the doors of Summerhill Market on Summerhill Ave. Sunday about 4 p.m. EST. The car took out a display and damaged the metal frame and automatic doors. The brickwork of the building appeared intact. No one was hurt. It is remarkable considering the busy Sunday afternoon traffic at Summerhill Market. Business continued as usual. A woman said her sister was at the wheel either entering or leaving a parking spot and the car somehow found itself into the doors. The vehicle is said to have been the subject of a gas pedal recall in recent months.
