Canadians on the Diamond Princess, now moored in Yokahama, are quarantined in their cabins until authorities can be sure none of them has the coronavirus. Then, Kirk Douglas is dead at age 103. Below that, videos on the separate debuts, of a sort, for Justin Bieber and Britpop star Louis Tomlinson

Shining faces of some Toronto Leaside Wildcats

This great photo was posted by the Toronto Leaside Wildcats to mark National Girls and Women in Sports Day. Talk about shining faces.

The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says January home sales were up 15.4 percent from the same month last year, while it expects home sales for the year to rise about 10 percent overall. January saw 4,581 home sales, up from 3,968 last year, while the average sales price of $839,363 was up 12.3 percent compared with a year earlier. Looking ahead at the year as a whole, the real estate board is forecasting about 97,000 home sales, up from 87,825 last year. It expects the average selling price to run at about $900,000 for the year, up nearly 10 percent from the average of $819,319 last year as new listings are expected to be flat to down — Canadian Press.

Real landlords must be laughing as Airbnb, the 21st Century substitute for finding a responsible tenant, scurries to say it will set conditions for young people looking for a place to party, and perhaps shoot each other. City News

The Weather Channel is forecasting another cm of snow Friday after the approximately two cm fall overnight Thursday. Then it predicts another one to three cm Sunday with as much as four cm Wednesday. Dead of winter.

Shops in north block as seen in first decade of the 21st Century/Scott Steele

Area artist Scott Steele has posted a nostalgic painting of two stores in the north block of South Bayview Ave. to Leaside Community Facebook. They show Trae Zammit’s Smokin’ Cigar and the late Leo Cornacchia’s barbershop. Over the years, Smokin’ Cigar moved two doors north and then south to 1540 Bayview Ave. Mr. Cornacchia died in 2016. Scott Steele on Instagram.

There is widespread indignation and outright anger after a musician, James Potok, 28, has said “it was good for publicity” when he falsely told a planeload of vacationing passengers that he had the coronavirus. Mr. Potok has since apologized.

CUPE Local 416 denies that it was accusing Mayor Tory of scheming to privatize garbage collection when it released a statement Monday saying that the City was preparing for privatization by calling for a no board report from the Ontario Labour Minister. Typically, such a report means the government will not attempt conciliation between the parties. Local 416 has been without a contract since December 31. A statement released by the union to The South Bayview Bulldog Wednesday further insists the City has not rejected conciliation. The option of privatizing refuse collection to the east of Yonge St. has been an on-and-off prospect since Mayor Tory pledged to follow Rob Ford’s course in privatizing collection to the west. After the election, Mr.Tory and other councillors changed their minds, making the case for a mixed system.

WWII Veteran, Fred Arsenault

In Holland with the First Canadian Army

The approaching 100th birthday of WW II veteran Fred Arsenault has touched Canadians deeply. A request posted by Arsenault’s son Ron for people to send his dad a birthday card has met with an outpouring of social media support. It’s reported that cards are being mailed from the Netherlands where Mr. Arsenault served with the First Canadian Army in 1944 and 45. Jenny Yuen, Toronto Sun

• Toronto vet Fred Arsenault asks for cards to mark 100th

Is there an elephant in the cabinet room?/School of Thinking

As thousands of teachers from all unions across Ontario strike this week, many parents may wonder if the fatal words “essential service” have yet been uttered in the cabinet. It is one big elephant. The last time the government worked up the gumption to tell certain workers they were just too essential to be on strike was 2011. That was the fate of TTC employees. Teachers across Ontario far outnumber TTC drivers however and any government that wishes to keep some teacher votes has to consider that. Tuesday Ontario’s Catholic teachers hit the picket lines as well as high school and elementary teachers in select boards. Elementary teachers will engage in their second day of ramped up rotating strikes, hitting more school boards per day than they did during the job actions they held over the past two weeks. And high school teachers will strike at the Lakehead, Lambton Kent, Thames Valley, Waterloo Region, York Region, Halton and Kawartha Pine Ridge school boards.

Man kicked off plane was wearing mask/City News

Well, good Tuesday morning and aren’t you glad you weren’t on the WestJet flight that had to turn back to Toronto from Montego Bay when, just for fun, a jackass got up and told fellow travellers that he had the coronavirus. Video of the upset passengers here.