The South Bayview Bulldog

Someone messed up big time at Statistics Canada a couple of days ago when he/she announced that Canada had created only 200 jobs in July. The real number, as reported this morning, is 41,700. That’s much more than expected (before the 200 clanger) and  it drops the unemployment rate to 7.0 percent from 7.1 percent,  Reuters

An issue that is murky in law about just where and when one can park and lock a bicycle threatens to inflame further the relations between cyclists and others. The management company at The Hudson Bay Company on Bloor West has instructed its security firm to remove bicycles locked to poles and other public property on the sidewalk outside the building. The cry has gone up from a woman whose bike disappeared off the street that it was confiscated and that she wasn’t given warning or notice that her bike was in custody. She thought it had been stolen. It is a thorny issue because  City Council has tinkered with legislation about the parking of bicycles. Now the determining legality is whether the bike seems abandoned or is a problem. All very vague. It is certainly upsetting that there is no warning or notice of where bikes have gone when they are taken. Still, drivers are expected to know that when their car is gone, the likelihood is that it has been towed. Let’s try to get along. CTV

Two 19-year-olds have been rescued off Lake Ontario tonight because, while they had no safety equipment in their little dinghy, they did have a cell phone. And it was still nip and tuck because there are no reference points on a dark lake. But cops worked a triangulation on the cell signal and were able to zero in on the two. Tonight they were brought ashore at Ashbridge’s Bay. CTV