The South Bayview Bulldog

Greek banks and the stock exchange will be shut tomorrow as creditors refused to supply new bailout cash. Account holders are lined up all over Greece trying to get their money out. Other European nations warned travellers to Greece to make sure they have enough Euros to get in and out of their vacation destination. The Greek banks have been kept afloat by emergency funding from the European Central Bank. That funding is now being slowly turned off. It is expected that the Athens government will default on a €1.6 billion payment due to the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday.

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A reader has questioned the location of the new Tim Horton’s at the southwest corner of Eglinton Ave. E. and Bayview Ave. Kimberly Lexovsky has said this is a “terrible spot. Too busy a corner. Afraid for high schoolers crossing that busy accident prone intersection.” Ms. Lexovsky said: “Problem is kids at that age are glued to their phones and that is a problem when they are crossing a large busy intersection. Time will tell.” Thanks for perspective Ms. Lexovsky. Susan Johnson had this to say: “It would be better at the plaza, but by a bus stop is always good. The original location near Roehampton likely wouldn’t draw as many”. .New Tim Horton’s location

Pride Parade marchers were in high spirits despite the weather. Earlier report: The Pride Parade was held in wet and chilly weather but an estimated 8,000 participated in high spirits. It wound along Church and Bloor Streets, south on Yonge to Dundas Street and then back to Church. Former Scarborough resident David Furnish, Elton John’s spouse, was the grand marshall of this year’s parade. Other grand marshalls included Celina Jately. a LGBTQ activist in India and Pussy Riot, the outrageous feminist punk group. famous singer Cyndi Lauper and Brendan Jordan, 15. There were politicians present. Premier Wynne, PC leader Brown and Mayor Tory, Thomas Mulcair and Justin Trudeau attended.

Heavy rain into Sunday likely left at least the ten millimetres forecast. Toronto Police Operation ‏@TPSOperations reported that a large tree was down in the EB curb lane of Bloor St between Parliament and Sherbourne. The Ops room also tweeted that the City was experiencing multiple outages at traffic control signals along Bloor St. and asked drivers to treat blacked out intersection as all way stops. They were also reporting a tree down blocking Rosedale Valley Rd at Park Rd in SB lanes.

The Fraser Institute says that employment growth during the decade 2003 to 2013 was much faster in the public sector than in the private. The statistics shown reveal an expansion of 22.6 percent among public sector employees against growth of 10.7 percent in the private sector. The report says the contrast is sharpest in Ontario where public-sector jobs grew by 27.6 percent over that period and private-sector jobs by 5.6 percent. The study by the Vancouver-based think-tank shows Alberta had the smallest gap, with a 31.9 percent rise in public-sector employment and a 29.3 percent increase in the private sector. The study defines public employees as anyone working for any level of government, for a government service or agency, a Crown corporation or a government-funded organization such as a school or hospital.