The South Bayview Bulldog

City News reports on plus-women who say they have been kicked off Instagram for no apparent reason except perhaps that they don’t have the designer’s notion of the perfect female body. The story talks about the company’s algorithm. But of course, that’s created humans isn’t it. Remember GIGO?

5G fun for hockey jocks

It’s being reported that TSN and Bell are bringing a new 5G immersive viewing experience to Toronto on April 15 during coverage of the Toronto Maple Leafs game against the Winnipeg Jets. The new 5G View feature, which is available on iOS and Android on the TSN app, will let fans control how they view different angles of the game on their smartphones. Read more at MobileSyrup

Vaccine milestone as 10 million doses delivered

The Toronto Real Estate Board says Tuesday that home prices in the City continued to climb in March while sales were almost double that of the same month a year earlier. Sales in the area reached a record 15,652 last month, up 97 percent from 7,945 during the same time last year. TREB says the sales growth was so dramatic because it compares with March 2020, when the first economic effects of the pandemic took hold and both buyers and sellers were wary of the market.

Tom Gibney/CFTO News

Tom Gibney, 84, the long-time anchor of CFTO-TV News has died. Mr. Gibney was a native of Yorkton, Saskatchewan and worked at CFTO from 1973 until 2007, retiring when the news department was known as CTV Toronto. Wikipedia

Former @CTVToronto anchor Tom Gibney has died aged 84 https://t.co/wuAxwHfDlo pic.twitter.com/oKrOnrrp23

— CTV Toronto (@CTVToronto) April 6, 2021

Anya Taylor-Joy is telling Entertainment Tonight that she could never have guessed that Queen’s Gambit would make her the biggest thing since Doris Day, but hey, you gotta love it.

Mummies on the move in Cairo

There’s no better place than Cairo for a parade of mummies and On Demand News has lived up to its reputation for off-beat happenings by sending this report on a cavalcade of 22 prized and embalmed royals. The mummies were taken from downtown to their new resting place further south in the capital. The vehicles were designed to resemble the ancient boats used to carry deceased pharaohs to their tombs. The 18 mummies – including Ramses II and Queen Hatshepsut – were originally buried 3,000 years ago.

April Fools “concert” excuse for a riot

The “La Boum” festival in Brussels’ Bois de la Cambre park was a total hoax. Nevertheless, as many as 2,000 people showed up and of course, did not go home quietly.

Hope the animals enjoyed this Easter Enrichment Hunt as much as we did.

Good Friday lineup for take out at Olde Yorke Fish and Chips on Laird Drive/Kris McCusker

A photo tweeted by Kris McCusker of 680 News shows the Good Friday lineup at Olde Yorke Fish and Chips. Some things remain happily the same. Lineups are not uncommon at Olde Yorke even in normal times. This photo recalls the lines outside Penrose Fish and Chips (below) on Mt. Pleasant Rd. now long gone and greatly missed.

Last lineup at Penrose Fish and Chips on Oct 8, 2014/Bulldog

Well-known Bayview Ave businessman Leslie Szimeiszter has died from complications of C-19. Mr Szimeiszter, 90, was the owner of Express Travel at 1569 Bayview. He was a lively, congenial and much-liked figure on the business strip. Notice

Moving to former Gears at 109 Vanderhoof

Sports Swap moving out of 1541 Bayview

Cycling sales and service locally are in flux as Sports Swap at 1541B Bayview Ave has announced plans to move to the recently vacated premises of Gears Cycle at 109 Vanderhoof Ave. It’s been ten years since Sports Swap moved from 1440 Bayview (at Balliol) to 1541B.  The Bulldog archives have yielded a composite photo (below) of the proud day workers readied to open there. Finally, word is posted Saturday at Leaside Community that Cyclebar at 1866 Bayview at Broadway Ave is closing permanently.

Proud day in 2011

OPP Constable Scott McNames found Jude Walter Leyton

The incredible Easter story of a three-year-old boy who was found and rescued after 72 hours in Eastern Ontario bush is being told this Good Friday. Kingston Standard

Jude catching up on lunch and dinner in hospital

Then some sleep

Ontario is shutting down most businesses in the province with what is called a “provincewide emergency brake” amid surging C-19 case numbers and record hospitalizations. And politicians are seen to be at odds with doctors. The 25 physicians appointed by the government to advise on such matters say more is needed — mainly a full stay-at-home order.  The move, which will take effect at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday and remain in place for at least four weeks, will force all restaurants across the province to close for in-person dining. That means that patios, which were just permitted to reopen in Toronto and Peel on March 22, will be shut down once again. Gyms will also have to close in the regions where they were permitted to operate and outdoor fitness classes, which were allowed to resume in Toronto this week, will no longer be permitted. Essential stores will remain open at 50 percent capacity and non-essential retail can operate at 25 percent capacity.

Millwood and Laird showing construction at 33 Laird

Glenn Asano’s interesting piece in Leaside Life seems to tip-toe around how to get traffic quickly in and out of the long-stalled commercial development at 33 Laird. The Bulldog got disoriented (as dogs will) by suggestions of a connection with Thorncliffe Park possibly by extending Canvarco Rd (now a dead end). At any rate, Mr Asano also says the best solution to ending 33 Laird’s isolation to motor traffic is for the City to purchase the whole place. Please no. Let tax-paying private property lie. The answer to accessing 33 Laird is a four-way intersection at Millwood Rd and Laird Drive. This would provide much incentive for residents in south Leaside and beyond to toddle straight into any new commercial site from Millwood. Northbound traffic could easily right-turn into the site and the intersection is wide enough to create a left-turn lane for southbound cars. Then Organic Garage, the grocer whose cute name rivals Farm Boy, will be able to offer its healthy produce to millions.