The South Bayview Bulldog

Colin Mcconnell snaps breakfast, lunch and dinner

Crosslinx post showing stairs into/out off Leaside station

The Daughter

Marnie tries out LUC lawn tables

Sam at bat for Gryphons

East York nature photographer Colin Mcconnell’s latest post has birds and butterflies he’s snapped on walks with his pooch. Top right, you’re looking at the new stairs into the Leaside LRT Station. It may not be a stairway to paradise, but millions will shortly tromp up and down here. At centre right we see the new wine bar and bottle shop opening in 1560 Bayview Ave at Belsize Dr. Welcome, The Daughter. At lower left is Marnie trying out the three new picnic tables at Leaside United Church. Note that there is wheelchair access. Lower right, Leaside Leafs slugger Sam Brown is lending his power bat technique to Guelph Gryphon Baseball this season. Out of the park Sam.

Perhaps use park function? Peel Regional Police

Police say the driver of a Maserati sedan that rolled down the inclined shorline of Lake Ontario at Front St in Peel Region was not injured as his expensive car was swallowed up by the water. It is not clear if he was alone. But he was not in the vehicle. Was it in park? Tweets speculate

Aquatic centre will complement new Davisville Public School/CS&P Architects

Recent depictions of Toronto’s planned Davisville Aquatic Centre have been published by CS&P Architects. They show a swimming and athletic centre with community space that will bring to life the long-dreamed-of goal of a neighbourhood hub. With a tentative completion date of 2024, the centre sits beside the new Davisville Public School on Davisville just east of Yonge St.

Tunnel to Davisville School

There will be a tunnel from the school so that classes of kids can safely move back and forth. One of the pools will be a six-lane, 25-metre pool for distance swimmers with a second in which parents and tots can splash about. The roof will have a walking track and patio with southern exposure. Nice. The project is still seeking community input with construction expected to begin in the Fall of 2022. The new DPS will open in September.

First floor depiction/CS&P Architects

Open air roof top facilities/CS&P Architects

Vivian Xi

Vivian Xi has become the youngest person to graduate from the University of Toronto in the forty years it has kept track of the age of graduates. Vivian is 16 and she credits her grandmother in particular for setting high standards. “She’s very proud of me,” says Vivian. “But she also has this ‘I expected it’ attitude.” U of T News

Carolyn Bennett

As MP for St. Pauls, Carolyn Bennett has many friends in South Bayview. But others may find that the long-time physician and ardent Liberal can frequently be too smart by half. This time she opened the door to a withering demand for her dismissal as a cabinet minister with a one-word insinuation about former Liberal justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould. Wilson-Raybould is Indigenous and she is playing her indignation to the hilt. Now her supporters have slapped down the race card. Somehow, Bennett missed the tinderbox nature of anything Indigenous in super-sensitive Canada, 2021. That’s especially odd because she’s the Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs. Cancel culture on steroids for Minister Bennett? Surely not. Find out what Ms. Bennett insinuated about Wilson-Raybould.

Chris at the Canada Day Parade in 2014/Bulldog

Chris Salmond loved East York/Facebook

Chris Salmond, a life-long resident of East York. has died at the age of 80. Chris was a member of the East York Historical Society, the East York Canada Day Committee and many other neighbourhood groups. His role as a fatherly majordomo in organizing dozens of bewildered participants and their floats in the Canada Day Parade is legendary. Chris was a fixture for years as a school crossing guard in his retirement. He was a graduate of Danforth Collegiate (1956).

710 Mt. Pleasant/Keven Menager

Keven Menager, Community Manager of the Mount Pleasant Village BIA, has noted the official opening of the new Shoppers Drug Mart in the Briton House building at 710 Mt. Pleasant Rd. Mr. Menager indicates in this post that the Shoppers space at 759 Mt. Pleasant is now available for lease at $55 sq. ft.

The Champlain Towers condo building that collapsed in Surfside had been sinking at a steady rate for years, according to research from Florida International University. At time of writing, 4 people have been confirmed dead and 159 still unaccounted for. While studying satellite data from the 1990s, university earth sciences professor Shimon Wdowinski discovered evidence that parts of Miami Beach and Surfside have been gradually sinking for years. In a video interview, Wdowinski said that included the precise spot of Thursday’s building collapse.

Oh dear, here comes Windows 11

The prospect of struggling through a whole new Windows update may send many users screaming into the street

Emily Carr painting fetches $3 million at auction

Emily Carr

The celebrated BC Indigenous painter Emily Carr hobnobbed during her life with members of the Group of Seven. Now her work Tossed by the Wind (below) has broken a record by fetching more than $3 million at a Toronto auction. Another of Carr’s later compositions, 1937’s “Swirl,” which she gifted to contemporary Lawren Harris, exceeded expectations with a $2.3 million sale.

Tossed by the Wind

Crash at Hwy 400 south of Finch Ave/OPP

One person has died in a long tangle of vehicles Thursday morning on Highway 400 southbound south of Finch Ave. OPP video narration below says it began when a tractor-trailer ran into the rear of a vehicle in slow traffic.

Barber equipment, vector illustration. Realistic hairdresser tools mirror, scissors, comb, hairdryer, hair clipper, shave brush, shaving foam, barber pole other haircut and beard grooming accessories.

Ontario will permit legal haircuts and beauty care starting June 30. On the same day it will also be permitted to stage larger outdoor gatherings of up to 25 people and smaller indoor gatherings of up to five people. The government update below took place Thursday morning.

Dr Patricia Linders

Dr. Patricia Linders, 586 Eglinton East, is set to retire at the end of July. Many of her friends and former patients recall her caring treatment of children in the neighbourhood and want to wish her well. FB