The South Bayview Bulldog

Most homeowners can only wonder what on earth a new world of Garden Suites might look like. But the concept, whatever it is, has emerged at City Hall. Is it a place for the kids, a home for gramps or an Airbnb dump? Does it block the view, require real plumbing, raise your taxes or just increase cars in the street?

• The ABC Residents Association in Summerhill is among many wondering.
• Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods

A man has surrendered to York Region Police in the hit-and-run on Wilstead Drive which occurred after a dispute in the No Frills parking lot on May 2. YRP has thanked the media and the public for assistance in sharing information which resulted in the suspect turning himself in. Release

• Exchange in Newmarket No Frills lot leads to hit-run attack

The Toronto Real Estate Board says home sales in GTA set a record for April and amounted to more than quadruple that from April 2020 – the first full month of the pandemic. Bucking the regular seasonal trend, April 2021 sales actually declined month-over-month. A similar trend was noted for the number of new listings reported. TREB says April 2021 saw a 12.7 percent decrease compared to March 2021, but more than quadruple the number of sales reported in April 2020. Release

The City has issued a notice detailing schedules and practices it will observe during the repaving of Mt. Pleasant Rd. north of Eglinton Ave.

The City is launching a pilot to see if it’s possible to collect dog waste in street litter bins. The pilot begins immediately and will run for three months. Ten bins (noted below) have been converted to accept the waste. The dog waste compartments are labelled with stickers and should only be used to dispose of dog waste. The locations are: 1989 Queen St. E., 125 Homewood Ave., 10 Niagara St. (three bins), 45 Dunfield Ave., 55 Rosehill Ave., 88 Broadway Ave., 150 Kilgour Rd and Lakeshore Blvd and Northern Dancer Blvd. Release

I encourage residents who see these new bins to use them when they're out with their dogs.

This initiative is a great example of how our City is making it easier for our residents to help keep our streets clean and keep materials out of landfill that don't need to be there. pic.twitter.com/nck3K2xUmW

— John Tory (@JohnTory) May 4, 2021

Karen Kain, the girl from Hamilton who went on to an illustrious career as Canada’s prima ballerina, has been honoured by Canada Post on her 50th anniversary with the National Ballet. The stamp features a photograph of Kain in Swan Lake. Canada Post also issued a stamp honouring Canadian ballet legend, Fernand Nault, former Co-Artistic Director of Les Grands Ballet Canadiens de Montréal.

Obscenities engraved on wheels of Drake’s Rolls

Drake has acquired a one-off Rolls-Royce Cullinan customized by an outfit called Chrome Hearts which among other cute things, has an obscenity engraved on the wheels. Well, he never claimed to be a man of the people. Driving

Limited offer from Bell lasts zero seconds

Range Rover Velar

There’s a plaintiff cry for help from a Leaside resident whose lovely blue-grey Range Rover disappeared overnight. Sadly, as the police often say, the vehicle is probably already in a container on its way to heaven-knows-where.

Record four Canadians drafted to the NFL

Bond girl Billie Eilish, 19, on cover of British Vogue

Billie Eilish, 19, on cover of British Vogue

The thing is, Billie is a kid but she is a smart one. She broke in at 14 with green hair but now she sings like an adult and has shown up on the cover of British Vogue looking what you might call womanly. She has written and will perform the theme song of the next James Bond movie, No Time To Die, which debuts in the fall.

Princess Charlotte is six

Some people looking at the new photo of Princess Charlotte released Saturday to mark her sixth birthday say her smile reminds them of Queen Elizabeth’s sly grin. Charlotte’s mom and dad celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary last week.

MASH-era signpost installed by Sunnybrook staff

Army meets hospital staff

Sunnybrook’s new field hospital

Colonel Stéphane Masson speaks with CBC host Vassy Kapelos

Staff at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have welcomed Armed Forces medical officers and staff to the hospital with gratitude and an amusing signpost that recalls Canada’s heroic role in the Korean War. A tall makeshift signpost similar to those seen on the 1970s television program MASH has been set up outside Sunnybrook’s new temporary hospital where the soldiers will work. Some 58 armed forces medical staff will assist with the onslaught of C-19 patients at Sunnybrook. The unit’s commanding officer, Colonel Stéphane Masson, expresses his pride in the new assignment on the CBC

Canada will begin receiving the Pfizer vaccine from its plant in Michigan. Previously, shipments came from Belgium. And the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is on hold in Canada as the government checks concerns that temporarily closed the Baltimore plant.