Of course. Just hop over to the other main street between 4 and 9 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday, June 25, 2014) and enjoy some of the Restaurantacular specials to be had. It’s one of those $2, $4, $6 deals and there are as many 21 places participating. Check it out.
The SMUT Soiree babble at Bayview Brickworks
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There is an event trending madly in the Toronto Twitter realm tonight. It is taking place at the Brickworks and a nice night they have for it at 550 Bayview Ave. It is called The SMUT Soiree (or something like that). The Soiree is about gossip. The self made maven of SMUT is Elaine Lui (Lainey). She is a woman of self-promotional skills beyond all knowing. If the pictures on Twitter are reflective, hundreds of exquisitely turned out ladies seeking gossip are attending this Soiree. They are said to be hearing, talking and just loving the gossip. May they all be famous for being famous. This is news to The South Bayview Bulldog because its happening here and because it is the Top Tweet of the night. Such is the intimate relationship between Twitter and Soiree it may well be that Twitter is trending more on Soiree than vice versa. But true to our compact with South Bayview, the Bulldog had to let you know. Man dies in fall downtown, remains of baby found
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A young man has fallen and died at a condominium construction site at 65 St. Mary’s Street at the corner of Bay St. south of the corner of Bay and Bloor. The construction worker is said to have been in his 20s. A call came in about 2:30 p.m. from 65 St. Mary St. Meanwhile, a member of the public has found the remains of an infant in Heathrow Park near Jane Street and Wilson Avenue. Police confirmed shortly after 3 p.m. Monday that the remains were those of an infant. They say the body could have been there for perhaps two weeks,
Reporter convictions: What is going on in Egypt?
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The New York Times story linked here is among the most detailed we have seen of the baffling events in Egypt, where three reporters for Al Jazeera have been given long sentences for publishing false news. One of the convicted men is a Canadian of Egyptian extraction. An observer of this situation doesn’t have to be an admirer of Al Jazeera to be concerned. In fact, those who know the work done at the Arab-owned news outlet may well say that it seems to work quite hard at finding angles to embarrass the West. It was a large sensation in Al Jazeera, for example, when the U.S. decided not to respond when the North Korean dictator grovelled for food supplies This is the guy who wallows in French wine, liquor, food and expensive cars. None of this is taken seriously in our open society and it is baffling why the Egyptian court is so wounded even in a country where free speech is a limited commodity. If stories such the New York Times account may be believed, the authorities have offered essentially no evidence to prove their allegations of false news. Put this together with the international condemnation following the verdict and the sentences seem doubly difficult to understand.
Spain whips Australia 3-0 but it’s academic
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Both teams had already been eliminated from the tournament with two losses each. Mail Online
Reader Rudy charts what’s left of Pottery Rd.
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Longtime reader Rudy of rudy.ca writes to note that he has charted much of the remaining remnants of Pottery Road still to be found from the 1940s route which ran down into the valley south of Moore Ave. This in response to our post that the short still-in-use section of Pottery between Moore and the Bayview extension has been re-paved. Rudy says the remnants make an interesting walk. He has been up and down them several times and says that the easiest portion to find is just east of Bennington Heights. He is concerned that the Hydro project may have wiped out some of it. There is also a section that runs up from the tracks on the south side of Bennington Heights Public School to meet Bayview Heights Drive. There is also, he says, a remnant that runs north from the Bayview extension to the abandoned “Don branch” rail line and also a small section that came up out of the valley and connected to Hillside Drive behind the Charles Sauriol Parkette
What a surprise! Lowly Portugal ties the U.S. 2-2
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Americans deeply chagrined by last minute comeback. Wall Street Journal
News briefs: Mummy bandit strikes on Broadview
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The creepy guy with what appears to be makeup on his face has robbed a bank on Broadview Ave. south of Danforth. it happened Friday about 6 p.m. and police say this serial bandit is pushing his luck. CBC
AND KIJIJI OFFERS TO CHASE PUP SNATCHER
AND KIJIJI OFFERS TO CHASE PUP SNATCHER
Click picture to link to Toronto Sun story about how the online buy and sell agency is trying to help a woman who lost her dog in Sunnybrook Park to a man posing as a dog trainer. A nasty character. It is a warning to all owners of fine dogs throughout South Bayview.
Jon Burnside draws large crowd to Leaside event
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An enthusiastic crowd of as many 250 people was on hand at the Amsterdam Brewery at 45 Esander Drive to hear Jon Burnside lay out his vision of change for Ward 26 if he wins the next municipal election in October. Mr. Burnside, seen at right with his friend Charlene Kew, is a former police officer. He is now a well-known businessman, owner of Homestyle Meals Delivered in Leaside. Among those present Sunday was Toronto actor Wilbert Headley (pictured lower right) who recalled for the South Bayview Bulldog how he met Mr. Burnside. “I like to cycle up Bayview Ave and around the grounds of the park,” he said. “Jon was on duty up there and one day he said I looked tired. He said throw your bike in the trunk of the car and I’ll drive you home.” It was an act of kindness Headley has not forgotten. Also present were Conservative MP Patrick Brown from Barrie, John Walker, owner of Global Pet Food, well-known Leasiders Charlene Kalia, Patrick Rocca, Vanessa Rose and Andy Elder. One of Burnside’s former school-mates, Michael Tutton of the Ontario Lottery Corporation, was in the crowd with Marcy Gerstein. In his opening remarks, Burnside acknowledged his mother, who is 88 and recalled her recent decision to celebrate the day by heading off to Casino Rama. Mr. Burnside recalled how he had grown up on Airdrie Road and “played ball hockey during rush hour.” His more serious remarks however were designed to illustrate the meaning of his slogan — Burnside, On Your Side. He noted how when he was a police officer the department was plagued by the “Flemingdon Park gun tree.” Young men would hide a community gun in a local tree, ready for anyone who wanted it for a crime but untraceable to the last user. The police removed the gun, but there was always another one there,” said the candidate. “Finally police decided to cut down the tree. But there was another tree.” Burnside recounted how he was moved by the lack of things for young men to do in Flemingdon. He decided to start a local hockey program, scrounging for equipment, money and other necessities. He was stung, he said, because “the local councillor wouldn’t help to get ice time” for the teams. So Burnside did it himself. Today the Flemingdon program thrives and is copied elsewhere, he said. To make such change happen, said Burnside, “you need to vote for a better councillor.” He was offering himself, he said, as an alternative to the status quo. The context of the battle for Ward 26 is not complete. The election is more than four months away. The incumbent councillor is John Parker, first elected in 2006. He is challenged by Mr Burnside, who came within a few hundred votes of Mr. Parker in 2010, by David Sparrow and other candidates who will be covered in the weeks to come. Remnant of Pottery Rd. is re-paved in Leaside
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One of the shortest and yet busiest little streets in Leaside has been re-paved. It is the remnant of Pottery Road, stretching a few metres from Moore Ave. on the north to the Bayview extension on the south. For decades it has been a bumpy, pocked section of road that was so painful to travel it made the speeding drivers coming off the northbound extension slow down and think. Pottery sits in its original place, a route that pre-dates practically everything in the neighborhood, including the Town of Leaside itself. In those days it was more of a path than a road. Before Bayview Ave. was extended south, Pottery Rd. travelled into the valley and picked up the other section of the road still extant. It runs from Bayview across the river and up the hill to Broadview Ave. It is said there are still bits and pieces of the abandoned Pottery Rd from the 1940s on the hillside above the Bayview extension. It took a meandering route down into the valley. The newly re-paved portion sits, as Loblaws shoppers will know, between the grocery store and the Pharma Plus-TD Bank plaza on the west. Reader Rudy charts what’s left of Pottery Road.
Pope goes to Calabria, excommunicates the Mafia
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Francis uses broad strokes against criminal families as he accuses of them of worshipping evil. Here
Three helicopter escapees nabbed in Montreal
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Police have re-captured the three men who escaped from a Quebec City prison by helicopter on June 7, 2014. A combined forces raid on a home in Montreal at about 1.30 a.m. Sunday morning resulted in the arrest of the three apparently without incident. Cops say there will be more arrests related to the escape. Yves Denis, 35, Denis Lefebvre, 53, and Serge Pomerleau, 49, are due in court in Quebec City on Monday.The three had been arrested under Operation Crayfish in 2010, which had dismantled a network of drug traffickers.