The South Bayview Bulldog

Appetite for food is endemic as is that other well-known hunger. So it is that a food protest by inmates at a Regina prison has seen not only a review of the edibles but the dismissal of a food worker for having sex with an inmate in a freezer. The food protest has ended with a tart remark from the Premier, Brad Wall, that the food looks okay to him and if one doesn’t like prison food the choice as to where one eats is only a matter of going straight. Mr. Wall did not comment on the freezer activity, although the food worker cannot come back to prison, probably not  even if  she is convicted of something, which she isn’t. Thank heavens it’s not illegal. There appears to be no protest about the quality of her overall work in the freezer.

ONTARIO PRISON WORKERS SETTLE

In other prison news, the union representing 6,000 Ontario correctional workers says it has reached a tentative agreement to settle all outstanding issues in contract talks with the province. The deal was reached around 5:30 a.m., Ontario Public Service Employees Union President Smokey Thomas told CP24 in a phone interview Saturday.

A sign at a stop for the 28 Bayview bus at Bayview Ave and Merton St says nothing in 13 languages. It appears the sign, posted over the regular stop beside a construction site, is intended to give directions to a temporary stop. But it doesn’t. The English part says Board Bus Or Streetcar At and then nothing. What appears to be the same message in 12 other languages (or not) may be helpful for something but seem unlikely to give away the location of the temporary stop. The 28 Bayview runs from the Davisville station to the Brick Works on weekends but is promised by the TTC as a permanent weekday service sometime this year as soon as the necessary buses arrive from a manufacturer. Fingers crossed. (Further searching finds a stop by Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, but no thanks to the sign).

Erratic driving and then a wrong-way plunge down a ramp of Highway 410 caused a head-on collision Friday evening. When OPP officers leaped out of their cruisers to deal with the crash a man involved in the collision got into one of the cop cars and drove away.  The cruiser has been located using its GPS but the suspect is still on the loose. The Commissioner may have something to say. CBC

Many businesses would like the problem. The number of customers at Sports Swap at 1541 Bayview Ave. has caused the firm to post a notice on the front door asking people to be patient.  The “high volume” of business has a caused delays apparently and now Sports Swap asks patrons to give the names to the cashier so that “everyone is served in order”.

LADY SENS SUNDAY

On Sunday, January 10,  Leaside will host the Ottawa Lady Sens beginning at 3.40 p.m. The Lady Sens are ranked 15th in the PWHL.

York Region Police spin an interesting YouTube story with surveillance video of a man they think is a serial molester in the nearby Upper Canada Mall. Whoever it is, he has been at it since last summer and cops reasonably conclude that he lives quite nearby.

Police say two drunk drivers crashed into police cruisers early Friday in North York. There’s really not a lot more to tell about these hapless motorists except they are no longer driving. It happened after midnight when a woman rear-ended a cruiser on Finch Avenue West near Rumike Road. She ran away but guess what they caught her. Later, a man bumped into a cruiser at the same scene and was arrested. Class dismissed.