The South Bayview Bulldog

Jon Burnside (Ward 26) is holding a Thorncliffe Community Town Hall meeting tonight (Tuesday, March 8, 2016) which will see many public representatives available to answer questions. It will begin at 7 p.m. at the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office  in the LINK Room at 1 Leaside Park Dr.  A release sent out yesterday says that  representatives from 53 Division, Municipal Licensing Standards, Transportation, Parks & Recreation, Costco, Community Crisis Response Team, and Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office will be in attendance. It says that this is an opportunity to voice concerns and ask questions. Anyone with questions is invited to call  the Councillor’s office at 416-392-0215 or councillor_burnside@toronto.ca.

A loveable Toronto Bassett Hound has gathered more than 100,000 followers on Instagram and become a modest source of income for his owners. Advertisers are apparently eager to pay to have their name associated with Dean, as he is known. But his owner, Carly Bright, says Dean does not yet pay for himself which seems like one expensive Bassett Hound. Animal love.

Danier Leather Store will begin the company’s liquidation sale today (Tuesday, March 8, 2016) at its 76 stores across Canada. That includes the Danier stores at Eaton Centre and Yorkdale. The liquidators say in addition to their current inventory, the stores are receiving new shipments from warehouses. The store fixtures, furniture and equipment are also for sale.

The International Beauty Show has opened in New York with more than 500 exhibitors showing new products and techniques like smudge-free glitter lips. Must be like kissing confetti

Reaction to stories that the Government is thinking about selling the 250 LCBO locations where it owns the real estate was sharply critical today  Some readers say Ontario is selling its furniture to pay the credit card. One said it is the province’s grandchildren who are selling the furniture so their grandparents will have a roof.. Either way, this surprising revelation related to spending and debt broke Monday at Queen’s Park where PC critic Vic Fedeli demanded to know if there will be closures and job losses. The Minister, Mr. Sousa, was slippery — he said the sales, if they happen — would not reduce service  At the LCBO there was a statement that it would continue with the same complement as always,. Many in South Bayview will be scratching their heads to think of an LCBO location that is actually owned by the Government. Smart Centre, Bayview and Millwood, Yonge and Major — and any others that come to mind are rented.

The Toronto Zoo has decided on the names of the first giant pandas born in Canada: They are to be Jia Panpan (meaning Canadian Hope).He is the male cub. His sister is Jia Yueyue (Canadian Joy). Please don’t ask us to tell the difference. Both Premier Wynne (Don Valley West) and Prime Minister Trudeau found the cubs too cute to resist attending the name-reveal but maybe with an additional reason or two from most people for there.

OPP confirm that the feared abduction of a boy possibly 8 to 11 years was actually a parent dealing with a son who was “running away from home.”  Because of concern on the part of whoever saw this exchange, a province-wide Amber Alert was issued. The process included an over-ride of all television signals in a large part of the province, not just news bulletins. No doubt this is being discussed in the offices of television and cable firms today. .The alert was cancelled about an hour into the alarm with police saying the boy had been located and was safe.

Ray Tomlinson

The man who invented email as the world knows it has died. Ray Tomlinson conceived of the first bit of test e-mail which included the distinguishing symbol @ to separate the user from the host. Tomlinson created the send message (SNDMSG) command which directed mail to a recipients doorstep — his computer. Mr. Tomlinson is said to have died Saturday of an apparent heart attack at the age of 74. He sent the very first email back in 1971. At the time, he was working in Boston at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN), a company that was instrumental in the development of a very early version of the internet, called ARPANET. As an employee, he was “looking for problems [ARPANET] could solve,” Tomlinson told The Verge in a 2012 interview. He decided to use the @ symbol because it had almost no use at the time being mostly employed as a symbol to specify the price of produce per piece e.g. apples @ 25 cents. Sadly, the very first email has been lost. As Tomlinson said: “The first e-mail was completely forgettable  and  (was) therefore, forgotten.”