53 Division Police in South Bayview have not forgotten an insult to Canada’s war dead that occurred outside Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre when a man kicked down flags and made an obscene gesture to those commemorating Remembrance Day. It happened on Sunday, November 11, 2012. Police say it was mischief and they’re looking for help in identifying the man. The suspect is described as white, 5’9″-5’11”, 170-180 lbs, bald. A photograph of the suspect has been released. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5300, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637), or Leave A Tip on Facebook. Download the free Crime Stoppers Mobile App on iTunes, Google Play or Blackberry App World. It’s been suggested that joggers genrally might have an interest in identifying this man in the interest of keepiing their image bright. As they know, joggers share the streets, road and parks with everyone else.
Two education reporters are fretting about the effect of voluntary giving on the part of parents in school areas where there is enough money in the home to do that. For most families, it’s just a few dollars that can be set aside for this purpose, not hundreds. The implication of the article last week in the Globe and Mail is that somehow it would be better if every school received exactly the same number of dollars whether from taxes or those that are gift-given. Caroline Alphonso (above) and Kate Hammer say that a mere $45 per year was raised privately per pupil by Thorncliffe Park Public School. The two writers say this “raises questions” of equity in the public-education system. Alphonso and Hammer don’t mention — because they don’t know about — all the things rich parents do for their kids totally unrelated to school No doubt about it, it’s better to have money. But it’s mighty inequitable. The writers acknowledge that the Toronto and District School Board makes grants to high-need schools but they say this cannot “catch up with the hundreds of thousands of dollars schools in the city’s richest neighbourhoods raise.” Maybe not. But realistically lots is done to help poor schools (and possibly more should be done). As to Thorncliffe Park, it is closely linked to Leaside and Davisville Village. The connections are many and intimate. They range from charities that focus on that neighborhood to the enrolment of Thorncliffe kids at the the arena facility in Leaside. The country’s largest newly-opened kindergarten housing as many 700 toddlers sits beside Thorncliffe School. School gift-giving is also greatly supported by business, as was the case in the dirt-to-turf campaign at Maurice Cody. It is also Leaside business that funds much of the giving directed to Thorncliffe Park. 
A car and a TTC bus slammed into each other on Kipling Ave. north of Rexdale Blvd early Sunday (November 9, 2010) killing one in the car and injuring as many as nine others. It’s not clear why the crash happened but after the impact the bus hit a another car and then rolled what appears to be maybe 100 feet across a small plaza where it smashed through the window of a branch of the CBIC. Two of the occupants of the car are said to be in critical condition. The bus has a black box which should indicate what was going on with the operation of the vehicle at the time of the accident.
