The South Bayview Bulldog

Yes, Bombardier has made a total muck up of the streetcar contract. Out-of-alignment frames and substandard workmanship has left the City without the vehicles to replace older cars. Only a pitiful handful of cars has been delivered. We’re not sure as Josh Colle, the TTC chair says, that “Torontonians are looking forward to the pleasures of their new streetcars”. Riding a tram isn’t like an evening with an old friend. But never mind. Bombardier is a bit player in the streetcar scandal played out daily in Toronto. Whether it be the enormous cost and inconvenience of maintaining a street railway in 2015, the extraordinary obstruction of  traffic caused by streetcars, the inflexibility of streetcar routing and the time it costs the public or the maddening exercise of building tracks on the street in Leslieville — it is all entirely the fault of elected City Councillors who voted for a 19th century transit system. Please do not talk of the environment. The impact of electric and natural gas buses on the environment is a piffle. Council is talking of blacklisting Bombardier. Fine. But let members also awaken from their long dark night as streetcar zombies.

A strange odour in the Royal Bank at Bayview & Belsize, plus some staff members complaining of sore throats has prompted a call to the Toronto Fire Services to investigate.  Angela Lam of Stainton, Murray & Lam located on 2nd floor, above RBC has informed The Bulldog that at approximately 10:30am she was permitted to return to her office, while the bank remains evacuated.  Fire services are unsure what has caused the odour but it does not appear to be toxic.

City news release names “cooling centres”

Pimenton, the Spanish and Mediterranean food restaurant, cooking school and catering service at 681 Mt. Pleasant Rd. has closed at that location. A notice in the window says the company continues to offer “catering services, cooking classes, supper club and event planing.” The phone number is that of the Pimenton kitchen and office at 19 Curity Ave in East York. Pimenton will be missed from Mt. Pleasant although it was no doubt a challenge to make money there. The restaurant’s wonderful Paella dishes offered on the street during the BIA’s Restaurantacular were always delicious.

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