The South Bayview Bulldog

The stars of Suicide Squad, Jai Courtney and Margot Robbins, visited the John St. lemonade stand of 5-year-old Na’ama Uzan  set up to help her brother Nadav. He suffers from Angleman Syndrome, a rare   congenital disorder caused by genetic malformations.  “I heard about Na’ama’s story and what she’s doing for her brother Nadav,” Courtney told CTV Toronto. “There’s no act too small when you’re talking about making a difference.”

John Lorinc of Space magazine online and the Globe and Mail has tweeted pictures of art used in Philadelphia transit shelters. The painted parrot the left is a sample. The idea, as we understand it, is to perhaps improve the streetscape and elevate the minds of your ordinary commuter. The Bulldog is a simple canine, a dog of ordinary tastes and therefore not qualified to judge such things definitively. But honestly, the 2012 hacked version of a Toronto shelter sign (centre) is more interesting than the art. Quite good for a laugh. The sentiment declares that “The World of Advertisement (sic) Creates Artificial Desires.” Finally, the bottle of orange flavoured Listerine is just hilarious. Love it. You may sure it will inspire neither artificial nor genuine desire in the Bulldog. Hope they put one at Millwood and Bayview.

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It’s said that many people go to air shows anticipating an accident. It is a grim idea and unworthy of the thousands who attend praying for a happy outcome. With the 2015 Air Show days away and two dreadful crashes in two days at shows in Europe, 680 News has prepared a history of air crashes and how they were seen on local television.

Players from the Go-Green Cricket Field may want to show up tomorrow (Monday August 24, 2015) for the City of Toronto sponsored co-ed cricket event for young people at Ashtonbee Reservoir Park in Scarborough. The park has three cricket pitches. This excellent-sounding event also offers attendees a free barbecue.They will also get free TTC tickets and Pan am shirts while they last.  Registration starts at 2:30 p.m. and the event, running until 7:30 p.m., includes pick-up games, youth cricket league games and a session for youth and families on how to play cricket. Ashtonbee Reservoir Park isat 21 Ashtonbee Rd. and is closest to a TTC stop 1900 Eglinton Ave. E. Go Green Cricket Field opened by Premier 

The story is a little vague but there’s no doubt that the first one was served at the CNE in 1940. That makes the unpretentious but somehow heavenly Ice Cream Waffle a plump 75 years old. It could be its sheer simplicity or that “everybody likes ice cream and everybody likes waffles and when you put them together, it’s perfect,” as “wafflier” Kathy Hunter told the CBC. Legend has it that midway employee Sharole Levan (later crowned the “Waffle Lady”) hopped off the Conklin Shows carnival train at The Ex and brought with her the ice cream waffle concept. The CNE says carnival king Patty Conklin partnered with her and the rest, as they say, is history.

The snout of one of two giant panda cubs pokes out of the hand of a veterinarian at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, Aug. 22, 2015. The two were born yesterday after zookeepers got suspicious about a month ago that the mom Mei Xiang was pregnant.Video below is of the delivery but doesn’t show cubs emerging. Lots of sounds though.

Hyundai previewed the look of their coming Genesis Coupe with a new concept, dubbed the Vision G, in a debut at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California. The two-door, four-seat concept is described as Hyundai’s “inspiration for their family of future premium products” and designed in the US influenced by design boss Peter Schreyer. Its styling is described as “understated”. Among the new technologies fitted to the car is a system that opens the doors automatically when the driver approaches.