Lots of fun here with the CBC’s Eli Glasner enjoying the lively presence (return?) of music from the 1990s. The CBC YouTube tag line asks What’s driving the latest ’90s nostalgia? but it’s just clickbait. Glasner never asks or answers it. That’s okay because we already know this revival is about the Big Wheel of Life slowly making all these Gen Y folks middle aged. Good listenng.

A man has posted video which shows a thief rummaging through a family car parked outside the home on Bessborough Dr just north or Parkhurst Blvd. Friday night. The writer says the thief went up and down the street. This occurred about 8.40 p.m. which seems extraordinarily reckless of the thief. Not much to see on the video but a cautionary post. Car was not locked.

Facebook as a corporation is accused of many infringements of privacy but in South Bayview there seem to be few things that users are not prepared to share publicly. This day witnesses a growing interaction among neighbors and a woman who is asking for help on how to escape the cigarette smoke created by the people in the semi-detached home next door. There are many sympathetic responses and one man, a general contractor, offers ideas on how to seal the home along the common perimeter. In the end however the truth is posted by another woman who says:  “As long as they are on their property, there’s nothing you can do.” 

Chief Saunders drops puck at James Arena in 2016

Police and community members will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the ProAction Hockey League at Angela James Arena in Flemingdon Park on Sunday. Officers from 55 Division, who coach and mentor youth, have seen the program grow from 64 to 148 kids, many of whom would never have had the opportunity to play hockey because of the high cost of the ice time, equipment and league costs. ProAction Cops and Kids was founded by in 1991 by businessman John Bitove Sr. It is a non-profit agency that provides funding for programs that connect police officers with young people. Social time at 3 p.m. with the puck drop at 3:30 p.m. at the James Arena at 165 Grenoble Dr. Follow the league at Twitter @TPS55div and @TPSVicentino.

Rahaf arrives at Pearson/CBC

National Post/Twitter

A Saudi teen who was granted asylum in Canada after fleeing from her allegedly abusive family arrived in Toronto Saturday morning. Her flight from Seoul, South Korea, landed a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his government would accept 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun as a refugee. The young woman fled her family while visiting Kuwait and flew to Bangkok, where she barricaded herself in an airport hotel and launched a Twitter campaign that drew global attention to her case. Canada should not turn Saudi teen into a ‘political football,’ says former ambassador

Watch the bomb count down, try to defuse it. Oh too bad, you got it wrong. Now you’re legless like Uncle Harry when he ran in the Boston Marathon. Is there anything to like about this toy?

There is one winning ticket for the $18.2 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw, and it was sold somewhere in Ontario. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Jan. 18 will be approximately $10 million.

Trace Manes playground renewal now expected in Spring of 2019

Colette Bright retires from St. Anselm/Leaside Life

Logan Ave Tim’s curiously closed

Stories for toddlers

Kindergarten Information Night

Bantam DS White Wildcats/Wildcats photo

Jillian Walsh tells The Bulldog that the makeover of the playground (top) in Trace Manes Park is expected to start in the Spring of 2019. It had been hoped that the City might begin the planned (and fully-funded) renewal of the old playground last fall. The modern playground will honour the memory of six-year-old Georgia Walsh. At centre left, Colette Bright, the much-loved head secretary of St. Anselm Catholic School will retire at the end of January after 17 years of devoted service. There is a nice profile of Mrs. Bright in Leaside Life written by Susan Scandiffio. To the right is the long-time Tim Hortons at Danforth and Logan Ave as it was until a few weeks ago. The place is now closed with little explanation from head office. Below that, a reminder of Liz Johnston’s weekly Wednesday story-telling for toddlers over at Mabel’s Fables. Get a three-year old to take you there next week. Bottom left, Kindergarten Information Night is coming at Davisville Public School. DPS is now located temporarily on Vaughan Rd. And finally, these smiling faces are the Bantam Development Stream (White) Wildcats happy with their Silver win at the Guelph Girl’s Hockey Tournament last weekend. The Bulldog hopes to see you on the Junior team some day soon.

A news conference Friday night in Ottawa has heard police say that “something happened that forced us to arrest the bus driver” of the double-decker transit vehicle in which three people died. Some 23 others were injured when the bus hit a passenger deck at a transit station. Representatives would not say anything more about their concerns with the driver except that she is being questioned.

OC Transit double decker crashes into passenger platform

Three people are dead and as many as 17 injured Friday afternoon after a westbound double-decker OC Transpo bus filled with commuters slammed into a bus shelter at Westboro Station, the Ottawa Citizen reports. The extent of the injuries of those who survived is not yet known. The Ottawa police chief has confirmed to other media that there are “fatalities” as a result of the bus crash. Numbers will be given at a news conference at 7 p.m. There are at least 17 confirmed injuries.