The South Bayview Bulldog

A South Carolina student is manhandled and handcuffed after she allegedly disrupted a class and refused to leave a classroom at a local school. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott told reporters Tuesday that the student “bears some responsibility.” Her violent arrest was captured in a video. “If she had not disrupted the school and disrupted that class, we would not be standing here today. So it started with her and it ended with my officer. What I’m going to deal with is what my deputy did,” he said. The sheriff spoke about the existence of another video that purportedly shows the student resisting. “It showed the officer as he puts his hands on her, her punching him,” Lott told CNN, adding that the student’s behavior doesn’t justify what happened after. The school resource officer involved in the incident, Deputy Ben Fields, has been suspended without pay. Lott expects to make a decision within the next 24 hours about Fields’ continued employment — CNN.

Three people are dead in a horrifying accident on Highway 404 Tuesday afternoon. A fourth person is in hospital. Video suggests it was a collision between two vehicle with the wreckage all in the northbound lane north of Stouffville Road. The Sun newspaper quotes OPP Sgt Kerry Schmidt as saying “it looks like a crossover” meaning that a southbound car leaped the median and landed in the northbound lane. He said the vehicles were a Ford Fusion and a Toyota Camry.

The CIBC branch on Bayview Ave. is going all digital. The first thing you will notice about the change is that there will be no tellers. That’s right. In less than two weeks, the little branch at 1529 Bayview will re-open with only digital service for all withdrawal and deposit requirements. Our local branch is one of five in Canada to be so designated by CIBC head office. There will be people in the branch, but none of them will be standing at a wicket waiting for your business. A source at the branch says the tellers will all find work in other bank jobs. No doubt one of the busiest occupations will be explaining how it works to some customers.

DEEPEN RELATIONSHIPS?

Early in October CIBC’s new CEO Victor Dodig announced his intention to take the bank into new territory where it could “deepen relationships through digital” with customers. It seems certain that at least some customers will struggle with just how warm a digital relationship might be but the bank is pressing on. The Bank of Montreal is making similar all-digital sounds. Anyone listening to the earlier announcement might have guessed that there was precious little additional digital possible in banking as we understand it, apart from no tellers. Money by mail, bill payments, investments  — it’s all here. The South Bayview branch will close from Wednesday, November 4th to Sunday November 8th, 2015 reopening on Monday November 9, 2015. Concierge staff? CIBC makes digital push

The details relating to the death of a newborn boy who was circumcised and subsequently bled to death have been aired at a hearing of the Ontario Health Professions Appeal and Review Board.  Hamilton Spectator

Newly-born giraffe female has come out into the public area for the first time with its mother and father. Narration describes loving parents.

The Amalgamated Transit Union has waited just long enough for the public memory of the astonishing strike of April, 2008 to fade a little.  But maybe not long enough. The Wynne government is insisting it will fight any attempt by the ATU to remove essential service status from the union. Who can forget that Friday night when the union gave just 90 minutes notice as the clock ticked toward midnight. It blind-sided thousands of people who found they had no way home.  Unsuspecting TTC customers wandered out of theatres and clubs to see picket signs. This little surprise was necessary, said then union president Bob Kinnear, so that an “angry and irrational” public would not take out some sort of revenge on the union. ATU local 113 is going to try to convince a court again that it should be allowed to strike.

Roots Canada has sold a majority stake in its clothing and sportswear line to the British head-quartered private investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners. Toronto co-founders of Roots, Michael Budman and Don Green, said Monday they have ceded control of the company they founded in Toronto in 1973 to “support the brand’s next phase of growth.” Financial terms were not disclosed.  Photo: Roots via Twitter l to r Michael Budman, Searchlight co-founders Erol Uzumeri and Eric Zinterhofer.Roots Don Green. CBC 

Canada Post has announced that it is putting the construction of community mailboxes on hold. The move comes as a result of the election of the Liberal Party which has said it would stop the progressive end of door-to door mail. In a statement, the Post Office said: “Efforts are now underway to place the comprehensive program on hold in an orderly fashion” The halt to community mailbox conversion reportedly involves about 460,000 addresses across Canada that are already in the process of being switched over from door-to-door service. While the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is urging Prime Minister-designate Trudeau to pick up the phone, Canada Post says it’s awaiting a call. In statement released on Monday, the Crown Corporation says that “all conversions” planned for November and December 2015, and those scheduled to follow in 2016, will be placed “on hold”. The announcement comes one week after Canadians elected Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, who have promised to reinstate home mail delivery.

These graphic pictures of an unknown man were taken on Saturday, September 19, 2015, at approximately 10 a.m. when the man attended a financial institution in the St. Clair Avenue West and Dufferin Street area. The man in the pictures was using fraudulent identification and withdrew money from someone else’s account
He is described as medium complexion, 20-25 with a medium build. He was wearing a yellow T-shirt and camouflage baseball cap.  Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-1400, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637). Download the free Crime Stoppers Mobile App on iTunes, Google Play or Blackberry App World.

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