The Bulldog

Cenotaph vandal unloads, calls Tory, Crombie “you people”

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Holly Berry Fair, Santa Claus Parade Saturday and Sunday

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Lunch at Holly Berry Fair, Rosedale United Church
Thick or thin?

The Holly Berry Fair at Rosedale United Church is Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. It is a signal Midtown event and should not be missed, especially for the home-cooked hot ham sandwiches in the cafeteria. Sunday brings the Santa Claus Parade, this year starting at Bloor and Sherbourne.

Matthews: I’ll strive to be better in every aspect of my life

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Auston Matthews has apologized again as news arrived that the disorderly conduct charge against him in Scottsdale, Arizona has been dropped. This after a reported deal between the Leafs forward and the woman security guard who was affronted by Matthews and two of his friends in an apparent drunken folly. Toronto Sun

Ventilation shaft to add congestion for drivers at Yonge/Eg

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This promotional video for City News at Six tells of a new ventilation shaft being built in the middle of Yonge St. at Eglinton. It is required for underground work at this particularly complex intersection where the Eglinton LRT will go under the Line 1 subway. Stations piled on stations.

Mom and dad lived through the LRT construction

The reporter here, Erica Natividad, catches a bit of the agony associated with this five or six-year once-in-a-lifetime dislocation of life created by our transit requirements. In years to come, parents may tell their children they lived through the construction of the Eglinton LRT.

Few flurries Saturday but warming temps into next week

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The Weather Channel sees fairly uneventful conditions over the weekend and into next week. A few flurries are predicted for Saturday and warming temperatures promise a chance to clear streets and sidewalks before the next storm.

Eataly open, Hudson’s Bay Yule, Subway and after Grapes

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Some timely work from City News in this Thursday Video Wheel beginning with the grand opening of Eataly in the Manulife Centre. Fun. Also fun is the debut of the Hudson’s Bay Christmas window. Below that, the taste for Subway sandwiches seems to be declining as many stores close. And finally, Adrian Ghobrial looks ahead to a world without Coach’s Corner.






All-day search in east Leaside unites curly pooch and owner

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Found near Vanderhoof and Brentcliffe

An all-day search on Facebook and elsewhere has found the owner of this curly pooch. He was found near Vanderhoof and Brencliffe on Thursday. FB.

Bang, bang! Astros 2017 cheat tipped off batters to pitches

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Here’s a very compelling video that seems to expose cheating by the Houston Astros against the L.A. Dodgers at the 2017 World Series. The allegation is that a camera was sending pictures of signals between the Dodgers catcher and pitcher straight into the Houston dugout. Listen to the “bang, bang” signal for a changeup.

Local CEOs fired as gov’t merges care under Ontario Health

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Ontario is starting to merge the province’s major health agencies such as Cancer Care Ontario and eHealth under one umbrella and firing the CEOs of nine Local Health Integration Networks. Those CEOs will receive a total of $3 million in severance. The province’s 14 LHINs and six health agencies will be consolidated into a new super agency called Ontario Health for an estimated $350 million a year in savings.

December 2 transfer

As a preliminary step in the process, Health Minister Christine Elliott announced today that five of those six agencies will transfer to Ontario Health as of December 2. Among the local health units being merged are Cancer Care Ontario, Health Quality Ontario, eHealth Ontario, Trillium Gift of Life Network, Health Shared Services Ontario, HealthForceOntario Marketing and Recruitment Agency

Honeycomb tower for Yonge and St. Clair cut by four floors

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Honeycomb tower called One Delisle
Looking south from Merton St.
Re-making Yonge and St. Clair

The re-making of the corner of Yonge and St. Clair by Slate Asset Management goes on with a four-floor lowering (48 to 44) of the development called One Delisle. It shows a tower made of elongated hexagonal modules pieced together in a honeycomb pattern which, as noted by Urban Toronto, is unlike any other building in Toronto The story Tuesday notes public meetings held earlier this year led by Councillor Josh Matlow’s Working Group and City Staff. They resulted in a lower height as noted. This is all about the reality of the automatic precedent whereby a building of 48 stories results in dozens of others all justified by the first.

140,000 sign petition demanding return of Cherry to HNC

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Here we go with another Video Wheel. First up, a CBC report on the many people who still want Don Cherry on Hockey Night In Canada even though he is a combative, know-it-all who frequently offends racial, gender, political and social convention. He is still loved. Then, a solid wrap up of Micheal Therieault’s testimony at his trial on the beating of Dafonte Miller. Below that, doctors are sounding the alarm about the growing ineffectiveness of many anti-biotics. They say it is a lot more important than the environment. Finally, a man who loves his Trabant, a vehicle widely demeaned as the worst car in history. It was made by the German Communists in the 1950s. Ugh.






St. Petersburg Napolean dress-up nut dismembers girlfriend

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Every now and then it seems as if you’ve seen and heard it all.