The South Bayview Bulldog

The Junior Wildcats of the Provincial Women’s Hockey League eked out a 1-1 tie in an afternoon tilt against the Kingston Ice Wolves Saturday in Kingston. It may have surprised the Wildcats to find the Kingston team so prepared defensively considering their record of 11 losses and four ties. Boxscore

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The pretty home at Rose Park Drive and Welland Ave. is under demolition this weekend (Saturday, November 14, 2015). A new Home will be constructed on the site in the north end of Moore Park,. The home dates from the 1930s.

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The 78,000 members of the Ontario Elementary Teachers Federation (EFTO) have voted to ratify the contract which was finally agreed upon between the union and the education department.  ETFO says 86 per cent of its members voted in favour of the deal. What can possibly have motivated the other 14 per cent?  That’s about 11,000 teachers. Did they vote no or were they too disgusted to bother.  Education Minister Liz Sandals has said the key elements such as salary, are similar to those in agreements previously reached with the province’s English Catholic and public school teachers. Those deals included raises of 1.5 per cent plus another one-per-cent bonus. And, like those deals, Sandals has said those new agreements are net zero, meaning any salary increases are offset by savings elsewhere (could someone check that?)

The new transportation minister, Marc Garneau, has made it clear that there will be no expansion of the Toronto Island (Billy Bishop) Airport to accommodate jets. The minister had seemed to deviate from a firm promise made by the Liberals during their election campaign by saying he was still thinking about expansion. Late yesterday he tweeted that the government’s position is the same as stated. “As the new Minister of Transport, I have been enjoying learning about my files, including re: Toronto Island Airport,” Mr. Garneau said. “I confirm that GoC position is the same as LPC (Liberal Party) commitment: we will not re-open tripartite agreement for YTZ.”

IS THIS THE END?

The news will please many in South Bayview where passenger aircraft noise from Porter Airline flights has been a regular feature since the company began service. It seems unlikely to end the issue in the long term however. At City Hall, resistance to the jet scheme has been very uncertain. The mayor took the position that he would not vote on the question because of his son’s employment. It effectively  removed — or so it seemed — important leadership. The issue, as put forward by former mayors Crombie, Sewell and Eggleton in a joint statement, is that the inevitable outcome of permitting jets on the island will be justifiable demands from commuter carriers in eastern Canada and the U.S. for equal access. And thus a much larger, noisier airport

BOMBARDIER

The politics of Quebec will never go away. The Liberals will not  be indifferent to the Bombardier factor in that province. The Bombardier streetcar plant is in Ontario. But where are the streetcars? And speaking of uncertainty, it does not require a very long memory to recall that Robert Deluce, head of Porter Airlines, pledged for many years that he would never ask to put jets at the airport. But then he did.