The Bayview Leaside BIA Sidewalk Sensation Sale saw large crowds surging along the wide walkways of the street on Saturday. Excellent weather helped but the energy and imagination of shopkeepers was apparent. Here the Cassava Latin Jazz Band performs at Millwood and Bayview. Below, Sue Byford of Bonnie Byford Real Estate had balloons for kids and some moves too.

The Maple Leafs chose 18-year-old Auston Matthews of the American Hockey League as their first choice in the NHL draft Friday night. Now this fast-skating son of Scottsdale, Arizona will be playing in Toronto where ice is more plentiful than in his boyhood home. CBC

A detached home at 6 Mortimer Ave sold in five days in early April for $853,888, a bidding war leap of more than $250,000 from the asking price of $599,000. The home backs onto a Sobey’s parking lot and is on a busy street but is located in desirable East York a ten-minute walk down Broadview to Danforth. It is a nice brick home with updated interior including two full baths, one on the main floor and one on the second. The listing attracted 150 potential buyers and 34 bidders. That is how the price jumped to where it finished. The Globe and Mail.  

Stock markets responded with a kind of panic seldom seen in response to the UK vote to leave the European Union. Nothing seems certain including just how seriously anyone should take the plunge of equities in Toronto, New York and elsewhere. By late afternoon Toronto nearly 250 and the Dow about 580. Dozens of insights appeared: The decision will bring lower interest and yet another surge in the price of homes in Toronto. Canadians will find it is cheaper to travel to Britain as the pound takes a hammering and finally predictions Britain will now be eagerly pushed out of the EU not so much for spite as a fear that other countries will get the same idea.  In Canada, Prime Minister Trudeau said that Canada is “well- positioned” to weather the stock market storm. “The country’s economy is strong, diversified and resilient. While last night’s vote will undoubtedly increase the global economic uncertainty, Canadians can be reassured that we are monitoring the situation closely and that we will work with our partners across the world to maintain stability and create economic growth,” Trudeau said in French in Quebec City.

The South Bayview Bulldog welcomes Decorator Maria Lebeault to its pages. Her ad runs in the column to the right and is linked to her interesting site at Elegant Living Spaces. She has worked with famous Italian brands, such as Max Mara and Gucci and holds strongly to the philosophy that your home is not just a place to live, but also a space that should lift your spirit. Maria and husband live locally.

Mayor John Tory will attend with sponsors, community members and cricket teams from across Toronto, Saturday June 25th, the 12th annual Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Mayor’s Trophy Cricket Tournament. It runs all day at Sunnybrook Park north pitch at 1132 Leslie Street but you can catch the mayor about 9 a.m. when remarks are scheduled.  Joining Mayor Tory will be MP Adam Vaughan; Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders; Michael Lam, CIMA Chair; Andrew Miskin, Global President of CIMA; and Mahes Wickramashinghe, Chief Strategy Officer, Canadian Tire. The CIMA games have helped to raise funds to support youth cricket programs such as Cricket Across the Pond scholarships and the Mayor’s School Cricket Tournament in Toronto.

City councillors in Fort McMurray have made themselves among the highest — maybe even the highest — highest paid municipal councillors in Canada. Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo councillors voted 7-4 of the raises saying it is justified because they expect to put in additional hours to co-ordinate rebuilding efforts. Seven part-time councillors currently earning $36,000 per year will see their pay rise to $75,000. Councillors Allan Vinni, Keith McGrath, and Sheldon Germain — all part of a newly minted relief committee — will now work full-time. Their pay will rise to $150,000 per year. That’s believed to be the highest base salary for any councillor in Canada.

Witnesses captured video of a house on fire moving down a flooded river in West Virginia. The incredible sight was seen in White Sulphur Springs following heavy rain and flash flooding. Online reports say the house scene occurred in a place called Howard’s Creek.

Charlene Kalia ‏tweeted this picture of the ice cream fans at the Leaside Girls Softball BBQ in Leaside Park off Overlea Blvd.

NewLeaf Airline is back and the improbable air carrier says it will be in revenue service in Setpember. Many wonder if there can possibly be a business here for NewLeaf.

Michigan mother Stacey Wehrman Feeley was amused when she saw her daughter standing on the toilet seat in the family home. But then she was reduced to tears as she realized her little girl was practicing what to do if a shooter was loose in her school. Teachers told the child to stand on the toilet seat and be quiet. The Traverse City woman composed herself and soon posted the picture on her  Facebook page, where she wrote an impassioned plea arguing for improved gun controls in the US, with the hope of making such lockdown drills a thing of the past. “Politicians – take a look,” she wrote, in a post that has been shared more than 10,000 times. “This is your child, your children, your grandchildren, your great grandchildren and future generations to come. They will live their lives and grow up in this world based on your decisions. They are barely 3 and they will hide in bathroom stalls standing on top of toilet seats.”