Dashcam video has come to light which picks up some of the driving of a man who ultimately has an accident and is charged with impaired driving. Well into the video above, the driver is seen careening onto the side of the road and knocking over pylons. A moment or two later he slams into the rear of a car which has slowed to turn right at Don Mills. Quite an act.

Television journalist Morley Safer, who made his reputation as a Vietnam War correspondent for CBS and then became a mainstay on the network’s “60 Minutes” show for 46 years, died at age 84 on Thursday, a few days after his retirement, the network announced. Safer was Canadian who started his career in Toronto. He retired in what CBS described as declining health, dying at his home in Manhattan. Safer, who spent 61 years in television news, brought an authoritative, urbane style to “60 Minutes,” CBS’s ground-breaking news program, and his work was a mix of hard and soft news. The part-time painter often reported on art and his disdain for contemporary works often set the art world atwitter.

 

The recently installed left-turn signal for northbound traffic on Bayview Ave at Merton Street was not all that helpful at avoiding this misunderstanding. It happened mid-afternoon on Thursday, May 19, 2016. There are a few good moves here as cars try to get through the intersection.

For some curious reason, the City’s economic development committee has voted to maybe create a low-level functionary and call him/her a Night Mayor. This “mayor” would look after relations between day activities and night activities — like clubs — and help increase night activities if possible as a tourism attraction. Or he might be called a Czar. It pays about the same. By the way, what do Councillors do? Will this important new person be elected? Is there a bureaucracy virus? The weird idea comes from Paul Ainslie. Another Mayor! Go figure. With CBC

The man who pumped five shots into his victim in a Peter Street parking lot last December is a handsome “model-like”  type of guy, according to witnesses who helped create a new composite drawing of the killer. Joel Alexander, 27, died in the vehicle but remarkably a woman sitting next to him was not hit or even grazed. Det. Sgt. Terry Browne said the crime occurred about 4:15 p.m. December 11, when the man targeted Alexander.  At a news conference at police headquarters on Thursday, May 19, Detective Sergeant Terry Browne said the public has been helpful with the investigation. “When we first started the investigation, we appealed to all of the residents and people working in the area to let us know what they saw,” he said. “We also had access to security images.” The suspect is described as a black man in his 30s and very good-looking. The vehicle is described as a 2006 silver Lexus 250 or 350 with tinted windows seen below

 

Country Dental has opened in the new complex at 396 Broadway Ave at Bayview Ave. Country Dental has a location in Cambridge as well. The practice has advice for parents with children and on how to make the normally onerous job of going to the dentist a little easier. Some of their advice is linked here. It includes pointers on starting early and “brushing to the beat.”

Here’s an amusing bit of video by the CBC from the Justin Bieber pop-up store on Queen West yesterday. It may not be there now. But along with the charming puppy love stuff is a young man professing that he’s only there for his girlfriend. Grown men sometimes claim when found out that they are doing certain things “for research.”

Google announced it would no longer include ads for payday lenders— financial services that offer short-term, small-dollar loans, often with triple-digit interest rates — to protect “users from deceptive or harmful financial products.” All the while in the U.S., Google’s parent company is investing in a startup that offers loans with annual percentage rates as high as 600%. LendUp actually refers to itself as a “payday loan alternative,” but as the Wall Street Journal notes, it offers loans with terms as short of seven days that have annual rates in line with traditional payday lenders. Thus, by Google’s recently announced rules, paid ads for these LendUp products will be barred from Google search results starting July 13 — Consumerist 

 

School bus hit by tanker truck. At least 4 children injured. Approx 10 on board. Steeles and 6th line Halton Hills. pic.twitter.com/WJp2veMJXR

— Tony Smyth (@LateNightCam) May 19, 2016

Staff Sgt. Tom Reilly tells CP24 that none of the children hurt in Halton school bus crash are believed to have life-threatening injuries.

— CP24 (@CP24) May 19, 2016