The South Bayview Bulldog

The Ontario government is said to be peremptorily cancelling red and white health cards after three notices, according to anecdotal information among physicians. One case cited was an elderly man who had received three notices of an unknown kind who found on a visit  to his doctor that the card was no longer valid. The doctor is said to have treated the man anyway. The Wynne government has been anxious to eliminate red and white  cards, which do not carry a photo of the holder. The cards  have no time limit on them (except death) and do not need to be renewed like green photo cards. There is no information about just how much fraud these cards have facilitated but there is now action being taken to cancel some cards, including the elderly. The province stopped issuing red and white cards more than 20 years ago.

A Mississauga woman, Zhe Wang, is revealed as the winner of last October’s $64 million 649 jackpot. Six months after the draw Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.Ms Wang held the single winning ticket although few other details are available Monday morning..The at a Petro Canada in Mississauga. The gaming agency says Wang’s win puts her on top of the list of Canada’s largest lottery prize winners who won with a single ticket.

Cindy Hsu of CBS News offers some manageable ideas on how to keep the blood moving while still getting the desk work done.

Social media — in this case Twitter — has been used once again to make a vulgar and violent threat. The person who issued it is just so surprised that anyone would take him seriously. It is less a story about him than the recently revealed (15 years) capacity of the unedited vox populi to make nasty, violent outbursts because they just don’t know any better. It’s what they do.

In the context of City Council’s decision to install bike lanes on Bloor St. West, the Globe and Mail columnist Marcus Gee has authored a thorough-going attack on the idea of street parking, demanding that Toronto “grow up” and eliminate it. It is an extraordinary series of objections to this useful (and profitable) form of parking including the alleged arrogance of a driver who wishes to park in front of a hardware store. (Find a hardware store). There is an easy assumption in Mr. Gee’s story that bicycles represent the civilized future of transportation and that cars should, perhaps, be removed from the City altogether. He seems to think that store owners who complain about the loss of parking are fabricating a problem.

STREETS TOO NARROW BECAUSE OF PARKING?

His suggestion that the streets of Toronto aren’t wide enough because cars park on them will surely draw snorts of derision from business and residents alike. Of course, automobiles carry far more people than bicycles every day. They will continue to do so because most people — the vast majority — are unwilling or unable (how shocking) to ride a bicycle. As always, readers are invited to comment but please, those who think Gee is correct, refrain from arguing that the bicycle was here before the car. So was the sedan chair. Take a look. Marcus Gee, Globe and Mail 

Toronto Hydro says it is working to restore power to as many as 500 customers in East York Monday morning. The hydro outage map shows an area north of Lumsden Ave and east of Woodbine  Ave.

Bite Me Grill at 1620 Bayview has closed its doors and is papered over. The all-day breakfast and lunch restaurant has been in business there barely six months. Hope was high that a practical eatery would be able to make it, especially since the original Bite Me on Danforth is still open.

Police have released a clear picture of a man who robbed a woman in a bank vestibule as she was using an ATM machine.  It happened Thursday, March 10, 2016, at 10:40 p.m. at a bank in the Roncesvalles Avenue and Fern Avenue area. The wanted man was armed with a knife and container of aerosol repellent. During the robbery, the man’s disguise was removed from his face and he fled  He is described as 25–35, 5’8” – 6’0”, medium-to-large build.

The large space at 1591 Bayview Ave. has been leased to an as-yet unknown tenant by Paul Slavens Real Estate. The east-side space between Second Cup and Badali’s Fruit has seen many occupants in recent years and is among the largest premises on the street. It was most recently a Sleep Country and was the location of the infamous Jefferson Homeless Shelter deception organized by the charity Raising the Roof. For many years it housed The Trend Shoppe and in the 1990s was a TD  Bank branch. The guessing among merchants and Bayview Ave. regulars as to what will land there is intense Sunday. The leased signs appear to have gone up late Saturday or early Sunday. It appears the new tenant has also taken the adjoining shop which was previously occupied by the Flight Centre.

Silver award winner Leaside Wildcats Atoms get their medals

A snapshot of the glory and the agony of competitive sport could be seen in Leaside Gardens at the March Madness Hockey Tournament Sunday. The 10 years-and-under (Atom) teams from Leaside and Nepean battled to a 1-1 tie right through the overtime. Then in the dreaded shootout, the goal tenders faced first one round followed by second round — and the score was still 1-1. In the third round Nepean scored and Leaside did not. So it was that joy prevailed among the families from Nepean and many a dad of a Leaside player had to console his heartbroken daughter. A few minutes later at the awards in the William Lea Room, Wildcats president Jennifer Smith had praise for both teams and their hard-fought efforts.  Leaside Awards video  Nepean Awards video.

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Late evening accident at Yonge and Eglinton — Global News

Police say a driver may have had a seizure which led to a dangerous collision between  a Hyundai and a Ferrari Saturday night at the corner of Yonge St and Eglinton Ave. The vehicles crashed into the CIBC branch on the southeast corner. One person. a pedestrian, is in hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The accident occurred just before 11 p.m.and closed Eglinton between Yonge and Duplex Ave. and Yonge Street from Soudan and Roehampton Aves.for several hours.