The South Bayview Bulldog

It may be not everybody’s cup of tea, but Daryl Marritt says he is unburdened by debt and worry as a result of frugal lifestyle. CBC Toronto 

Readers will be eager to know — we hope — that Otto the English Bulldog has travelled through the longest tunnel of human legs of any dog skateboarder. That would be 30 people and this was achieved in Lima, Peru on November 8, 2015. If by some strange chance you are not interested, please be a good sport and indulge us for this one post. Thank you.

Dining room table and chairs on display in Lea Room

The William Lea Room in the Leaside Arena is the scene until Sunday afternoon of a sale of Mission style furniture made by Stickely, the foremost name in this field. Mt. Pleasant Road merchants Ilona and Jim Sublett of Manderley Fine Furniture have trucked in a large variety of pieces from the Stickley factory near Syracuse, New York. The show runs daily and in the evenings up to and including Sunday, November 15, 2015.

Interesting CBC report on studies at the U of T and in British Columbia which show that gender is the single-most important factor when it comes to safe cycling.

Friends and admirers of Kenneth W. Reucassel wait to pay respects

Ken Reucassel

Friends, mourners and admirers of Kenneth W. Reucassel stood in line outside the Humphrey Funeral Home Wednesday to pay respects to the Lawrence Park man. Mr. Reucassel died November 5, 2015 at home at the age of 51 after a protracted illness. At the second of two visitations this day  mourners stood on Bayview Ave. and around the corner onto St. Cuthberts Road to await a chance to enter.  Mr. Reucassel was President and CEO of the International Group and a member of the Boards of the Beaumaris Yacht Club, Caledon Ski Club and Timothy Eaton Memorial Church. (November 11, 2015).  Obituary

An honour guard RCAF personnel and RCMP officers lead the Remembrance Day party into the cenotaph Wednesday morning at Sunnybrook Hospital.  Below, school children lay wreaths at the services remember Canada’s fallen warriors. More pictures here (Sue Byford)

The social media firm Tsu (pronounced Sue) does a calculation on what it earns from its members content and pays them back a portion of that revenue. Facebook doesn’t like that it seems and has deleted posts which link back to Tsu. Associated Press 

The New York State attorney general has ordered the two biggest daily fantasy sports companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, to stop accepting bets from New York residents. It says the games represent illegal gambling under state law. It is a body blow to the games, which insist they are based on skill. But the amounts of money are enormous and the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, says the vast majority of those playing lose. Sounds a bit like Lotto 649 and in that sense cynics may see this as government gambling protecting its turf against private gambling. In any case, it is a major blow to a multibillion-dollar industry that introduced sports betting to legions of young sports fans and has formed partnerships with many of the nation’s professional sports teams

This was the scene before dawn at Sunnybrook Hospital on Bayview Ave. as volunteers and relatives placed flags to greet waking veterans on this Remembrance Day.  The weather is wet but there is warmth and kindness for men and women who sacrificed their lives for Canada. About 30,000 flags will be placed on the hospital’s lawn in preparation for an official ceremony.

The new prime minister and his wife Sophie appeared at the We Day rally in the Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata. They both spoke at length with Ms. Trudeau-Gregoire referring to the PM as “my hubby”.  The home of the Senators, with a capacity of 20,000, held 16,000 kids and teachers for this event. Quite a lot of Trudeaumania going on here.