The South Bayview Bulldog

Loblaws has closed its Chinese-themed T&T supermarket store at 5661 Steeles Ave. E. The closing appears to be part of a contraction of locations announced earlier of stores that were not making a lot of money. Loblaws continues to operate several other T&T locations in Toronto including one in the Promenade Mall in Markham not far from the store that closed. Loblaws bought the national chain of Chinese supermarkets from the founder in 2009 for $225,000,000 in cash and  preferred stock. Today in many Loblaws stores, like the one at 301 Moore Ave., certain T&T branded products can be found. Loblaws said in July that it planned to close 52 of its unprofitable stores across the country over 2015-2016.

These kids in New York had their game cancelled when a hockey big shot landed his helicopter on their field.

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