The South Bayview Bulldog

It was predictable perhaps but it told viewers what was on the mind of the three major party leaders about Canada’s foreign policy. CP24

 The party leaders will try to out point each other on foreign affairs tonight in another important but untelevised debate. The  meeting may be seen live however at the CPAC link here. CPAC will stream the debate live beginning at 7 p.m. CPAC live stream of leaders debate

Ritchies Auctioneers is staging a preview and auction of items to go on the block tonight. This is happening at vintage couturier Rewind at 598 Mt. Pleasant Rd. The items include luxury and designer items such as vintage fashion, watches, handbags and jewelry from luxury brands. Viewing continues until 7 p.m. at which time the auction begins.

Well done report from CBC about the fine conditions for supermoon gazing in Winnipeg. Nice crowd as well.

At the NASA link is the news from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. NASA is still somewhat cautious. Television is making it sound like you can buy a bottle of Aquafina anywhere on the Red Planet. But it is promising and important of course.

Susan Pigg

The reliable Susan Pigg writes in detail and with a certain drama about the development which will sweep away large parts of old Yonge Street between the waterfront and Eglinton Ave. How well we know it. Perhaps she can next turn her skills to a rendering of what awaits Eglinton Ave East. Toronto Star 

The oak forest of Moore Park is seeing a bumper crop of acorns. As the Massachusetts website Mass Audubon says: “Fall is the time for nuts and no nut is more noticeable than the acorn.” How true, say Moore Park residents who while cherishing their trees have been subjected to a three-week hail of the tough little nuts. Oaks produce their acorns in a boom or bust cycle. The cycle is normally 2 to 5 years. This is a boom-boom year in the South Bayview enclave below Moore Ave. All of which may be for many people about as much information on oak trees as they wish to know. Except that the boom years are known as mast years. Mass Audubon 

They call it a walk-off home run because it happens in the bottom of the ninth when the home team is batting and it effectively ends the game. Walk off. Go home. Except Josh Donaldson disappeared  into a mob of his jubilant teammates. CBC

This is Mt. Pleasant Rd. at Moore Ave. about 11 a.m. Sunday, September 27, 2015. It was like this on many streets in South Bayview.

Bob and Judy Arsenault of Bayview Ave. were walking on the cycle and foot path in the Don Valley this morning when they snapped this exciting photo. They were north of the Bayview extension and Pottery Road at the small waterfall seen here when they captured the shot. Bob says the best time to see the salmon leaping up river to spawn will be in the next 10 days or so. The choicest window will generally be 24 to 48 hours after a rainfall, he advises. Cheers Bob and Judy Arsenault for this charming picture of our local area. (Sunday, September 27, 2015)

Sobeys grocery stores has admitted to an enormous miscalculation which led to a nearly 12 percent drop in first  quarter net earnings. Speaking with analysts the CEO of Sobeys parent firm Empire Co. Ltd. said the loss occurred because Sobeys did not understand how difficult it would be to integrate the Safeway operation into the Sobeys way of doing things. Empire purchased Safeway’s western Canadian chain from the American parent in 2013. Sobeys uses a sophisticated merchandise control system created by the German software giant SAP. The system keeps track of everything from prices and sales to best-before dates.  But president Marc Poulin said the real-time pressures of the software were too much for Safeway employees. He did not elaborate. Were there delays at cash? Whatever, Sobeys and its Safeway add ons did much less business. Net cash dropped $14.3 million from the same quarter last year.

We can only watch in astonishment as this motorist accidentally sets fire to the gas pump with his lighter trying to get rid of a spider.  Video from the gas station in the Detroit suburb of Centre Line, shows the man’s alarm as he realises what has happened. Live and let live, we say.