The South Bayview Bulldog

Unmindful on Mt. Pleasant

A funny thing happened on a four-block taxi ride on Mt. Pleasant Rd. last Wednesday (August 5, 2015) Someone put morphine medication  in the trunk of a taxi and completely forgot about it. He, she or they got into the cab near Mt. Pleasant and Davisville and drove to Mt.Pleasant and Eglinton Ave. E. They paid, presumably, and the cab drove off with the drugs. The cab driver forgot too. Or so the story goes, as told to 53 Division Police. Naturally the cops are eager to find the drugs. The lost medication was in a bag which contained four morphine pills. The pills could be harmful or fatal if ingested, especially to children.  Anyone finding the medication is asked not to handle it, but to contact police at 416-808-5300, 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.

The owners of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, haven’t really made it clear what they are they doing. Google will go public. Okay. But then there are yards of rather oily non-goals like “getting more ambitious things done.” Sure guys. Wake us when you take over Toronto. CBC

Megan Batchelor gets an apology from the teen who ran into her space and kissed her on the cheek while she was trying to do a report. She carried on gamely but then complained to the police. Here she says the apology was a thorough one and says what the kid told her is good enough for her.  Of course, for the CBC type with her, this is a story not a personal embarrassment, and he presses on with questions about what it felt like when when she was kissed. Pooey. A sincere apology may be enough for Megan but not for the grinding mills of 24 hour news, it seems.

Joseph M. Natale, Chief Executive Officer and  President of Telus Corporation has decided he would rather live in Toronto than be president of the phone company. That’s the decision announced this morning. Mr. Natale, known universally in the firm as Joe, has turned down a direction by the board to move his family to western Canada (Vancouver). His replacement will be former president Darren Entwistle. It is barely a year since Natale, 51, was given the position of president but one supposes that with an annual estimated income of $9 million and the Jays on a run, hey, who wants to move.

This spectacular 1955 Pontiac Star Chief hardtop was parked outside Humphrey’s Sunday with a funeral card slipped between the fender and the hood. It has no doubt been an old friend to someone and vice versa we suspect.

A CBC reporter in B.C. has been quickly kissed on the cheek by a young man while she was delivering a live news insert. Reporter Megan Batchelor says she was rattled by the brief incident and has made a complaint to the RCMP about it. The kiss — a phenomenon once known as a stolen kiss — occurred during the Squamish Music Festival north of Vancouver. Reports called it a “jarring distraction” Batchelor was doing a live hit for the network’s 6 p.m newscast when a man ran up from behind, kissed her on the cheek and took a selfie. The CBC quotes Batchelor as saying she was “rattled” by the encounter and felt like the unidentified man was trying to interfere with her ability to do her job. The CBC said in an emailed statement on Sunday that Friday’s incident is another example of a disturbing trend and the network will do everything it can to ensure its journalists are safe when reporting from the field. In May, City News reporter Shauna Hunt slapped down a much more vulgar form of interference from male bystanders and ultimately one man, an employee with the Ontario electrical utility Hydro One, was fired.

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