Leaside Wildcats Captain Emma Pye gave her club a couple of 1-0 wins during their three-game road trip to southwestern Ontario this weekend. She scored the sole markers in contests on Friday and Saturday against London Rivulettes and Southwest Wildcats in Windsor. Sunday morning Leaside defeated Bluewater Hawks 4-2 in Strathroy on goals by Chloe Gonsalves, Quinn Johnston, Madison Heeney and Kristin Della Rovere. Pending other play Sunday in the 20-team Provincial Women’s Hockey League, the sweep bumps Leaside up two spots to #6 ranking behind (from first to fifth) Oakville, Nepean, Mississauga, Durham West and Whitby. Boxscores: Friday, Saturday and Sunday

The Leaside Property Owners Association has issued a notice dated Sunday related to the development known as 815 Eglinton Ave. E. This is the nearly nine-acre site on the southeast corner of Laird Drive and Eglinton Ave. E. now known as RioCan Leaside Centre. RioCan filed the proposal with the City in August and it was profiled in Urban Toronto in September. It is a massive proposal which includes as many as seven new buildings and residential towers, one of which is proposed at 34 storeys. The story was published in The South Bayview Bulldog September 3, 2016. RioCan vision for 815 Eglinton East in Urban Toronto

The Weather Network says Toronto will be subject to a “flash freeze” overnight and into Monday. The low is predicted at minus 14 and Monday’s high is estimated at minus eight. It is expected to be mostly sunny. Flash freeze. Let’s hope  we don’t get stuffed in Ziploc bags too.

Matthew J. Haffey

Friends of Matthew Joseph Haffey QC are invited to pay respects the to late lawyer on Sunday at Humphrey Funeral Home on Bayview Ave. Reception will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m.  Mr. Haffey, of Hanna Road, practiced law in Toronto for more than 50 years, graduating from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1949. “Joe” Haffey was an air gunner in the RCAF from 1942 to 1945. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Monday, December 19, 2016, at St. Anselm Church at 10.30 a.m. Obituary.

Walter Hachborn, a co-founder of Home Hardware, has died at the age of 95. Hachborn worked his entire life in the retail hardware industry, starting out in 1938 as a stock boy in St. Jacob’s Ontario making $8 a week.. In the 1950s, he and two partners conceived the Home Hardware group-buying concept, a development that is credited with saving the family hardware store. Home Hardware now has close to 1,100 stores including Home Hardware, Home Building Centre and Home Furniture.

The grocery horror story known as Sobey’s just seems to get worse. Q2 profit has slumped 70 percent. It is clearly related to the misbegotten $5.8 billion purchase of the Safeway chain in western Canada in 2013. Did the U.S. sellers of Safeway know just how difficult it would be for Sobey’s to integrate Safeway into its computer system? Sobey’s sure didn’t. A 2015 story makes it sound like Safeway was staffed by nitwits who couldn’t figure out how to use a computer. Probably not fair. But that was the original explanation for why customers had fled Safeway after the takeover. Sobey’s parent, Empire Company of Stellarton Nova Scotia, now says it needs consultants to figure out to make the place profitable. Ouch.

Sobey’s cash falls $14.3 million as staff flubs software

Sobey’s parents takes stunning 1.3 bln charge on Safeway

Saturday’s forecast promises several more cms of snow and some rain as well. Hang in friends. Here’s the early Saturday forecast from Environment Canada: “A significant snowfall is underway as a Colorado low treks towards Southern Ontario. Periods of snow will continue early this morning (Saturday) before becoming lighter later this morning. Total snowfall amounts of 5 to 10 centimetres are likely with a few locales receiving 10 to possibly 15 cm. A risk of some light freezing rain is possible this afternoon as well. It will also likely change to some light rain late this afternoon for regions closer to Lake Ontario. The mixed precipitation will then change back to some snow tonight as colder Arctic air returns. An additional couple more centimetres of snow are possible by Sunday morning.” Below, Bayview and Eglinton.

It or may not be sensible eating if you’re a big bull moose in Canada’s Rockies west of Edmonton, but these great creatures love  their road salt. And now it seems motorists are taking advantage of the delights of this fact, natural and automotive, to have their cars “cleaned” by moose. Unbelievable as it is,  you read it in The Bulldog. (With thanks to CTV Edmonton).

The manicure service known as The Ten Spot on Bayview Ave.has been granted a LCBO permit to serve beer and wine. The precise terms of such service are a little vague to many people but the appeal of selling a customer a drink while other retail business goes on beside it is clear. A number of women have commented on the Bulldog Facebook page about the prospect of enjoying “LCBO goodies” with one’s nail job. Some 773 people have read the story just on Facebook alone. There is a current of surprise in the comments, which can read here. It seems probable that many retailers might wish to sell alcoholic beverage by the glass as part of their main business whether it be the tailoring trade, real estate or home accessories.

@thetenspot Leaside received their liquor licence & will offer champagne, Ontario wine, and locally made beer and cider #HappyHolidays

— Bayview Leaside BIA (@LeasideBIA) December 16, 2016

A 12-year-old boy tried to detonate a bomb at a Christmas market in the western town of Ludwigshafen, German prosecutors say. Judicial sources cited by Focus magazine said the German born child of Iraqi heritage was “strongly radicalised” and reportedly instructed by a member of the so-called Islamic State. It is not clear how police were able to link the incident to the child, but he has reportedly been held in a youth facility since December 6 with the consent of his parents. The jihadist group has made extensive use of children to carry out suicide bombings and other attacks in Syria, Iraq and other countries such as Turkey. But the boy is believed to be the youngest suspected attacker yet apprehended in Europe.