A reader of the development site Urban Toronto has photoshopped pictures of the signs at what was the Logan Ave ramp to the Gardiner Expressway. He changed the signs from Road Closed to Road No Longer Exists. Cute.
The Maple Leafs have defeated Montreal 2-1 before a near-capacity crowd at Scotiabank Arena Wednesday night. Immediately before the game, the team announced a one-year deal with TikTok to place the video platform’s logo on their helmets. Toronto Sun
Work has begun at Rosedale Subway Station on Yonge St. to install an elevator. The venerable Line 1 station will also get better signs and CCTV. The full job will be finished in 2024. Rosedale Station opened in 1954.
Lungs for transplant have been whisked by drone from Toronto Western to Toronto General Hospital in a mere six minutes. Best use of a drone ever.
Who has mandate to speak for homeless?
Some 2,500 of Toronto’s homeless are in leased hotels like the former Roehampton at 808 Mt. Pleasant. The Toronto Star is asking what will happen when the leases expire. At the same time, a body called the Shelter Housing Justice Network is demanding that the City open up parks to encampments. The Facebook picture above shows an apparently homeless and disoriented man rolling around on the pavement at Yonge St and Eglinton Ave Tuesday. Among other things, he was shouting “nobody cares.”
US to allow Canadians back beginning in November
The long-since decommissioned City of Toronto incinerator known as the Wellington Destructor is about to be renovated into a new community hub says a news release. The real estate development company TAS has been chosen and has been given a long-term lease. The Destructor was commissioned in 1925. It’s at 667 Wellington St West.
SERRA, the South Eglinton Ratepayers and Residents Association, will meet online Wednesday evening with participants of a community consultation starting at 6.30 p.m. Recent indication that City staff is wavering on the specifications presented by the people-based Midtown Working Group has given urgency to the meeting. SERRA is urging you to join the meeting tonight.
You see them too but The Bulldog has a mania for such things. At upper left, the animated GIF was tweeted by Leaside High School to celebrate a two-day week. Things must slow in the office too. Then there’s the strange story of President’s Choice Tomato Soup. It vanished six months ago and most of the signs for it are gone too. But wait. The secret Loblaws code DNO means that the soup may yet come back. Want to bet? At centre left is a suspiciously Communist sign hung on Roxborough Ave. Looks like the crowd at the 1917-Russian-revolution phone number see an opening in the Indigenous media stories. At the bottom, you can watch the Danny Thomas Show (1953) on CHCH. Or maybe not. Finally, there are suggestions that authorities put a bike rental station at each end of the seemingly endless tunnel in the new bus station at Union Station. Pedestrians are shuddering. We love our oddities.
We’ve become used to all sorts of Korean imports. They range from Hyundais to clean-cut girl and boy K-pop bands. But Squid Game is different.
Nobel nod to Canadian economist
A Canadian economist, David Card, has shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with two US colleagues. His thesis, as we the laymen at The Bulldog understand it, is that corporations really don’t suffer all that much when the minimum wage is increased. As seen in the comments to this CBC report, some people feel a little underwhelmed by this insight.
Man held in New York after girl grabbed off street
The video in this report is just very frightening. An unkempt man lurches towards a grandmother escorting three kids and runs off with a little girl.
A post to the Leslieville Facebook page describes a holdup at Domino’s Pizza at Queen East and Larchmount Ave in which the knife-wielding perp wore a sweater that urged the world to Work hard, Stay humble. Hmm.
OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique has tweeted shots of a moose being escorted to safety by a cruiser on Highway 69 near Sudbury. Who knew? The brief video from which these shots were captured has a charming sequence in which a family member shooting this scene says it is the most Canadian thing she has ever seen. Yes, in many ways. See it here.
Brant County OPP say that 47 dogs, three cats and a turtle have been removed from the home of a man who died at the town of Burford on Highway 53 just west of Brantford. The animals are being cared for at various kennels and animal welfare locations. Cassia Bryden of the Hillside Kennel Animal Control told the CBC that she was wakened by police at 3 a.m. Friday to attend the site. She told CTV that it appeared the dogs had apparently not been out of the house for many months or even years. The man is said to have died of natural causes.
Summer’s Best Fruits and Flowers has opened a second store at 1573 Bayview Ave., the former home of Your Clothes Friend. Summer’s has another store at 3229 Yonge St near Lawrence Ave. This will bring the number of stores selling fresh produce and related goods on Bayview to three. The others are Badali’s, perhaps the oldest ongoing business on the street, and Passion Fruits at 1573 Bayview.
