The South Bayview Bulldog

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.

An Oklahoma man, Clay Quinn, is trying to raise money to aid kidney donations. He is doing it by crowd-funding based on his startling skill at backward half-court shots. You heard it right. Take a look.

This photo by John Hanley (and tweeted by CP24) offers graphic evidence of the force with which a motorcycle rammed the side of a Beck Taxi at Danforth Ave and St. Dunstan Drive Saturday afternoon. After being admitted, the cyclist was said to have life-threatening injuries. The cabbie was apparently uninjured. Just who was where is not yet clear but someone was not looking where he was going. The investigation will take a long time and the street was expected to be closed in this area for quite a while.

Zakaria Amara

The federal government has revoked the citizenship of Zakaria Amara, the young man who organized a band of would-be terrorists in a plot to set enormous truck bombs at many points in downtown Toronto. Amara remains in federal prison. He holds Jordanian citizenship and might be deported there on his release. At his trial in 2010, Amara agreed to details of the plot in which he intended to rent U-Haul trucks, load them with ammonia nitrate bombs and detonate them by remote control  He told undercover Mounties that this was to be The Battle of Toronto. He set up a camp in Northern Ontario where he trained his followers. They became known in the media as the Toronto 18. In recent days, conspirators Asad Ansari and Saad Khalid have also been informed by letter they will be stripped of citizenship under Bill C-24 passed last May. According to the CBC, Mohamed Hersi, convicted of trying to join the Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabaab, has also received a letter.

CNN tells a story that is somehow uplifting even though it comes from the worrisome world of how we fret about our bodies. The result is remarkable.

Kelly Dolson has officially opened her new Core Body and Science Pilates and Training Studio. Her husband Thomas was helping Saturday and there were many friends and clients at the studio which is at 862 Millwood Rd. That’s Kelly inset with some senior Leasiders and prospective clients. All seniors will find a warm and caring welcome at Core. Kelly, a former critical care RN, has had a studio in this block for a number of years. But as business grew and opportunity knocked, Kelly recently bought the building she and Thomas have just renovated. It is a charming space with a southern exposure through the newly installed all-weather folding doors across the front of the storefront. You can reach Kelly at 416.799.0444 info@corebodyscience.com

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