The South Bayview Bulldog

Power has been restored to the areas east of Yonge Street over to Bayview Ave according to Hydro One. The utility asks that if you are still without power call (416) 542-8000 and press 1 to speak to one of their dispatchers. Earlier: Power was out Saturday afternoon in the St. Clair Ave. and Yonge Street area. Toronto Hydro said some 9,200 customers were in the dark. The area affected was bordered by Yonge Street to the west, Bayview Avenue to east, St Clair Avenue to the south and Eglinton Avenue in the north. Power remained on however in what appeared to be most of Moore Park. Hydro said on Twitter that crews were working to determine what may have caused the outage. Twitter 

The Salvation Army and other services held a homeless exhibit and one-on-one discussion at the Toronto Fire and EMS Training Academy on Knox Ave in Leslieville on Saturday. It offered residents a chance to learn about plans to open a 124-bed homeless shelter at 29 Leslie St. The location is a now vacant factory south of Queen Street. Several dozen people attended the meeting. The was no opportunity to speak publicly but concern took the form of one mother’s fear that her children might not be safe going to school, and anoher person who said seniors might be afraid to walk out at night. The shelter is needed says the Army because of the closure of its Hope Shelter on College Street at McCaul Street, which it was forced to close last April after the property’s owner sold the building. Andrew Burditt of the Salvation Army was present Saturday and said the Army has been working with the City to find a new location to replace the Hope Shelter.This vacant site in a commercial neighborhood seems to be a good fit.

CBC photo of taxi in broadside collision

Two women are in hospital with life threatening injuries after a taxi was broadsided by a truck outside Western Hospital on Bathurst Street.  Fire personnel sawed off a door to free the passengers.  The driver of the truck said the taxi “suddenly pulled out of the roundabout” at the hospital and the two vehicles crashed. It was subsequently said by police the taxi was making a U-turn.

Writer Terence Corcoran unwinds an interesting vision of driverless cars where the personal ownership of cars will be illegal. You will be required to rely on a government-owned driverless vehicle to take you more or less where you (or the government) want you to go.

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Leaside Jr. Wildcats will play host to the Southwest Wildcats Saturday night at Leaside Gardens. The game begins at 7.40. Southwest is occupying the cellar in the 20-team Provincial Women’s Hockey League as its takes to the ice tomorrow. Sunday afternoon, twelfth place Bluewater Hawks from over Strathroy way will face the Leaside women. Puck drops at 3.40.

CBC has figured out some details on the case of vodka bottles filled not with vodka but water. Security video has revealed the same person returning several bottles that had been drained and refilled with water. There is also a plastic bottle angle. The stories don’t go into how such containers might be easier to open and then close in such a way that it is not obvious but now the LCBO says no plastic bottles will be accepted for return. Smirnoff and other makers sell a 750-milliliter lightweight “traveler” size. The clear PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles feature a unique “keystone” design on the necks and what Smirnoff calls an aesthetic appeal that enhances the rigidity and performance of the container. There is comment online about how bottles can be resealed to keep liquor by using a capsule shrink wrap. The advice says they are quite easy to apply and require heating a pan of water in which to dip the bottle.

Walmart will close 269 stores most of them in the U.S. with a large number in Brazil but none in Canada. The stores being closed are a small part of Walmart’s 11,000 stores.  Nearly all of the stores to be closed in the U.S. are within 16 kilometres of another Walmart. Many are the Walmart Express locations launched in 2011. The closings begin in February.