The South Bayview Bulldog

Entrepreneurial television tough guy and Rosedale denizen Kevin O’Leary has jumped ship at the CBC to go back to CTV’s Business News Network, the  National Post  reports. It leaves the CBC’s Lang and O’Leary Exchange with only Amanda Lang still in place. The two made their earliest reputation in business news at BNN and then resigned to join the CBC. In 1999 Mr. Leary sold a software firm, The Learning Company, to Mattel in a $3.8 billion stock swap. TLC did not prosper and the deal is often cited as an example of the tech boom folly of many large companies. Over the years, some snickered at the Lang and O’Leary brand because frequently the program had neither Lang nor O’Leary at their on-air desks. CBC says the program will be re-branded somehow to feature Ms. Lang. She is the daughter of Otto Lang, a Liberal party MP and federal cabinet member during the 1960s and 1970s.  Her stepfather, Donald Stovel Macdonald, was also a federal Cabinet minister.

It appears we are in for something like a day-and-a-half of on and off rain. The Weather Channel indicates an accumulation of as much as 20 mm by Wednesday morning with possibly 10 mm tonight alone. Let’s hope not because we don’t need that much for the gardens and 20 mm seems likely to bring the risk of flooding on the lower DVP and Bayview extension. 

Toronto Police are telling a story they know well. It’s how seven year old Samantha (Sammy) Sirbos has fought her way back from leukemia twice and is now at home with her loving family. They know it well because Sammy’s dad is PC Chris Sirbos. We see  the family here with Sammy (at right) and sister Ava, four, with mom and dad Maria and Chris.“When you’re waiting, every second, every minute, every hour and every day seem like forever,” says Chris. The family waited a month for a bone marrow match, never leaving the Hospital for Sick Children and, in a month, the doctors came in to tell them the good news. They had found a match – a 24-year-old man from Europe. “Even though you exhale, you know there is a hard road ahead of you,” says Chris. The purpose of making this public is to assist the life-saving blood collection that helps leukemia patients. This project puts police, fire and EMS staff in a friendly battle to collect blood. They call it Sirens for Life. Good work guys. 

This is the second of three super moons this summer glistening in the sky over South Bayview Sunday night (August 10, 2014). According to NASA, the super moon occurs when the moon is slightly closer to Earth in its orbit than on average, and this effect is most noticeable when it occurs at the same time as a full moon. “The moon may seem bigger although the difference in its distance from Earth is only a few per cent at such times,” NASA says. This picture was taken by Sue Byford, co-publisher of the South Bayview Bulldog from the driveway of her Sherwood Park area home. We’ll call it Moon over Mount Hope Cemetery.  Science of the Super Moon