The South Bayview Bulldog

Air travellers rejoice. Or at least, breathe easier. Boeing engineering has created a prototype lavatory that can clean itself using UV light to disinfect surfaces. According to Business Insider, the aircraft maker has patented the design which it says can kill 99.99 percent of all germs in three seconds and eliminate odors. Industry analysts agree that an invention which makes a busy bathroom clean and smell nice even as it is used by dozens of people is a breakthrough. The system is activated when the lavatory is unoccupied. “We’re trying to alleviate the anxiety we all face when using a restroom that gets a workout during a flight,” Boeing’s director of environmental performance Jeanne Yu said. The prototype also uses a list of touch-less features to keep things clean, including a toilet seat that lifts and closes itself to assure that the UV disinfecting process includes all surfaces. “Some of the touchless features are already in use on some Boeing airplanes today,” Yu said. “But combining that with the new UV sanitizing will give passengers even more protection from germs and make for an even better flying experience.”

City News has reported on complaints from homeowners on Eglinton between Sutherland Drive and Hanna Road about alarming shaking of their homes and noise caused by tunnelling of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Above is a portion of the embedable City News report transferred to YouTube.

It’s hard to go wrong when you are a Canadian prime minister being interviewed by the CBS program 60 Minutes. In the case of Mr. Trudeau, it all went well. The program can be seen Sunday.

Target Canada Co. has reached an agreement with its former landlords, companies like Morguard, owners of the East York Town Centre, whose leases were terminated when Target pulled up stakes and move out last year.  Under the agreement, the landlords will support the company’s plan under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and presumably receive some payment.

Carlie Weinreb

An Armour Heights girl, eight-year-old Carlie Weinreb has learned her Dad’s accounting skills so well she was invited to the University of Toronto to give a class of much older people an informed lecture on how to do your taxes. Mr.Weinrb started teaching Carlie math when she was just two By four, she was multiplying and dividing. By six, she was lecturing university students about Canada’s income tax system. Now the Summit Heights Public School student is eight and continues to teach students three times her age about taxes and applied math. After learning the mechanics of tax formulas from her father, Carlie was a quick study in filling out tax returns. CBC

The scenes shown here seem to promise the same madcap energy as the original film. Leading the women of Who Ya Gonna Call are Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy. Bill Murray has a cameo. Such goofy fun. IMDb

Mike Crawley writing from the Legislature for the CBC says education minister Sandals has refused to deny that the government will close schools for the deaf and disabled.

Motorists both local and those passing through Moore Park should get ready for the Mt. Pleasant and Moore Avenue Watermain Construction and Chamber Refrotfit. Ominous collections of giant traffic cones and backhoes signal a project that will take a while. The construction work goes on until 3.30 when the roads have to re-open.

FORGOT TO TAKE DOWN THE NO TURN SIGN

The sign on Mt. Pleasant just north of Rose Park Drive says we can expect completion in the Spring of 2016. But the no right turn sign does not apply during construction (or any other time the road is open). It was still there Thursday night because, as the foeman confessed Friday, they forget to take it  .

Parents and kids rocked Family Fun Night at North Public School on Rumsey Thursday evening. Infectious excitement sent pupils dashing through the halls to many venues in both gyms, the library and classrooms. Parents purchased tickets to raffles and other entertainments to raise money for in-school extras at Northlea. It seemed as if every parent was there as cars parked up and down Rumsey, along Divadale Drive and other streets. Parent Claudine caught the spirit as she prepared to call first graders to a snack of donuts. No problem.