Extension of downtown cycling tracks

Mark Shapiro (right) will be the next president of the Toronto Blue Jays succeeding Paul Beeston. Shapiro is currently president of the Cleveland Indians and has been with that club for more than 20 years. He is said to be a knowledgeable and stable manager. Paul Beeston is retiring at 70 after 40 years with the Jays. The Welland native was the team’s first employee and was renowned for his love of the game. He once declared that he had no other interests than baseball.

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A 14-year-old boy Scarborough boy has been shot to death at a wake in Hunts Bay, Jamaica. Hunts Bay is a suburb of Kingston. Police identified the boy as Ricardo Williams of Scarborough and said they were looking for a person of interest known as Omar James, also known as Judge, in connection with the fatal shooting. Canada issued a statement saying it is  providing services to the boy’s family in Kingston. Sources said Ricardo was spending the summer in Jamaica

We’ll keep this short. The odd Hollywood notion of the living dead was never a thing to dwell on for most people. But now, even for those who knew Zombie love, it seems this strange phenomenon is — um — dying out. Some 200 people marked the end of the Toronto Zombie Parade in a mock funeral for the event this weekend at the Royal Theatre on College Street. The walk has evidently run out of money. Those elaborate costumes and makeup must have been expensive. You can kind of see why it didn’t catch on with more people. There would have been no takers at the big banks for say the T-D Canada Trust Zombie Walk.

Chicago homeowner. ticketed for too many dogs and for not cleaning up, paints his house in unneighborly colours.

The renovation of the bus bays at the Pleasant Blvd entrance to the St. Clair Ave. subway station has thrown commuters and buses out on the street. What’s more, the bays are going to be closed until December, according to TTC staff on the scene. Buses on the 88 Leaside and other lines pull up and hope for the best as potential passengers wander the sidewalks. Above is the lineup for the 88 Leaside.  That bus now loops back onto its route by heading out to Yonge St and turning right at St.Clair. Buses arriving at the Pleasant Blvd entrance now play an announcement as they approach the station warning riders to get a transfer or receipt so they can get into the station. In reality, the bus driver and toll booth operators don’t seem to care whether a rider has paid or not.

This is part of the act put on by a busker who calls himself the Funny Waiter. He is. The Bulldog found him on Yonge Street just north of Dundas Street. Buskerfest wraps up Sunday, opening at 11 a.m. and closing at 8 p.m.

Barrie police have tweeted word that they have found the young girl abducted in Barrie on Saturday morning and that she is safe. Two people are in custody in relation to the incident on the City’s Dunlop Street East. The girl. who appeared to be under 18, was walking on Dunlop near Owen Street just before noon, when a man and woman drove up in a charcoal-coloured Dodge Magnum. The man got out of the vehicle holding a black gun in the air, then placed the firearm on the roof of the car. He demanded that the victim get into the car. Police have not clarified if there was a relationship between the parties (daughter, father mother?) and may not be able to do so because of identification. Nor did they say whether the taking of this young woman was even more sinister than that.

Picture shows the woman abducted with abductor apparently behind the pole