The saga of the hot water and heat at the apartment building at 2779 Yonge St. has moved a distance toward resolution with the restoration of hot water. But the units — and their tenants — still have no heat. The landlord, Bianca Pollock, explained to a meeting of the Landlord and Tenant Board on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, that she is still waiting for delivery of a new hot water boiler. The board has ordered her to pay for alternative accommodation for 15 tenants until the apartment has both hot water and heat. They have been without either since February 11, 2014. That followed a fire call to the apartment on a report of carbon monoxide in the air. All posts
Karyn Gordon at Leaside High School Council
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Karyn Gordon, the well known motivational speaker and parenting authority, will speak at the School Council meeting of Leaside High School on Monday, April 7, 2014. Doors are said to open at 6.30 for the 7 p.m. address. Refreshments will be offered. Ms. Gordon’s topic is “Raising Healthy Kids and Teens in an Age of Overindulgence.”
#TOpoli Trouble with “leadership” as an issue
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CityNews will air a debate among mayoral candidates tonight (Wednesday, March 26, 2014) beginning at 5 p.m. The station notes this is the first time all five main contenders will spar on live television. They are Tory, Stintz, Ford, Chow and Soknaki. This selection is necessary because there are said to be 40 or so candidates registered for mayor so far. It may rankle Sarah Thomson, now a candidate. She recently said she was running fifth in support. Who knows. The producers have set subjects. They are transit, finances and leadership. The trouble with leadership as an issue is that it is vague. It is usually unrelated to policy or platform and is typically used by candidates to make it seem as if they are decisive even though they may never have stated an opinion. Composite courtesy CityNews
Satellite finds further 122 objects of debris
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A further 122 objects potentially from the missing Malaysian plane have been identified by satellite, the country’s acting transport minister has said. The images, taken on 23 March, showed objects up to 23m (75ft) in length, Hishammuddin Hussein said. All aircraft taking part in Wednesday’s search have now left the area without identifying debris from the plane. Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing disappeared on 8 March with 239 people on board. The objects were found in satellite images from a 400 sq km area around 2,557km (1588 miles) from Perth in Western Australia, Mr Hishammuddin said. Based on new calculations, Malaysian PM says “beyond reasonable doubt” that plane crashed in southern Indian Ocean with no survivors The images were supplied by French-based Airbus Defence and Space and were given to the Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency on 25 March, Mr Hishammuddin said. The images were passed on to the Australian Rescue and Co-ordination Centre in Perth on Tuesday, he added. The latest images are the fourth known collection of satellite pictures showing possible debris in the southern Indian Ocean. No pieces have yet been recovered in the search area, which has now been split into an east and west section. The BBC map shows the location of debris spotted on satellite images between 16 and 24 March. Island airport jets to see showdown April 1, 2014
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Executive Committee voted 11-1 Tuesday to move ahead with negotiations on the necessary agreements to fly jet airliners out of Billy Bishop Airport on Toronto Island. Today’s vote moves the debate to City Council, which will meet April 1, 2014, where the same issue will be decided by the 44 members of council plus the mayor. A so-called tripartite agreement with Transport Canada, the Toronto Port Authority and the City of Toronto would have to be re-written to permit jets to land. That’s something which is specifically forbidden at present. The motion passed with the votes divided as follows: Yes: 11 Gary Crawford, Vincent Crisanti, Frank Di Giorgio, Rob Ford, Norman Kelly (Chair), Peter Leon, Giorgio Mammoliti, Cesar Palacio, Anthony Perruzza, David Shiner, Michael Thompson. No: 1 Peter Milczyn. Absent: 1 Denzil Minnan-Wong CP24
Parking proposals for Glenvale raise anger
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There is mail zinging around Leaside tonight about proposed parking restrictions on Glenvale Boulevard. Glenvale is that long straight street just south of the CNIB and the other health facilities. It stretches from Bayview Ave. to Brentiffe Rd. Traffic can then slide right down to the corner of Eglinton and Brentcliffe, focus of the LRT burrowing nightmare. One master e-mail tonight is from Paddy Duncan on behalf of the Leaside Property Owners Association (LPOA). The message is angry and it sounds like the LPOA is ready for a fight. The mail says the proposals come from John Parker (Ward 26) and range from no parking on the south side to no parking between 8 a.m. and 10 p;m. But there are a number of alternatives. As reported by Ms Duncan, they include:
1. No parking on the south side
2 No parking on the north side from 8 AM to 10 PM
3 One hour parking on the north side from 10 AM to 4 PM
4 No parking on the north side from 4 PM to 6 PM
5 One hour parking on the north side from 6 PM to 8 PM
6 Three hour maximum parking on the north side from 8 PM until the next day at 8 AM
Mr Parker is said to have called a meeting at Northlea United Church, 125 Brentcliffe, at 6.30 p.m.Thursday, March 27, 2014. Says Ms. Duncan: “We are not sure where the impetus for this improvement plan came from, but there is a group of Glenvale residents who are very upset about it and let us know what was afoot last night. They have written to Councillor Parker to indicate their concern and I’m attaching the letter. Some of you may have received it. [It] was distributed to about 40 households (lower end of the street numbers, I think the author of the letter lives at 22)”
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We hope Bayview Bits and Bites can stay alive
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The Rotary Club of Leaside has decided not to go forward with the well-attended Bits and Bites event of last year. “I was on the Committee organizing Bits and Bites and I have to say I think it was a success,” says Sue Byford Co-Publisher of The South Bayview Bulldog. “The street was busy, the food was good and there was an awful lot of fun to be had.” Click the picture and see some of the things we noted in last June’s post in the Bulldog. Bits and Bites had South Bayview bopping along we headlined. It’s true, the work fell heavily on the Chairman of the Committee, Peter Bennett, who worked enormously hard to make it happen. He deserves the thanks of every merchant and property owner on the street. His decision this year is understandable in the context of the burden on him. We get it and we’re sure every sensible resident of South Bayview gets it. Rotary made only modest money — maybe $2,000 — in terms of fundraising. But The Bulldog would like to make two points: God never promised the hard-working soldiers of community good work that there would be no apathy. Especially early in the season following a terrible winter. Apathy is maddening and foolish on the part of people who should know better, but it comes with the territory. Second, the Rotary Club might well be disappointed with the monies collected but Rotarians have a motto — Service Above Self. Peter Bennett lives that motto and the community might reasonably hope the same spirit is alive throughout this great service club.
Poles uprooted on Eg for new westbound lane
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It’s begun. The multi-year Crosstown LRT dig, shift and tunnel at Eglinton Ave.E and Brentcliffe Rd. has arrived. Next stop: Year 2020. In between, a daily helping of Holy Hell as businesses, residents and drivers figure out how to cope. Today saw crews moving utility poles on the north side of Eglinton further to the north. No room for pedestrians at all in this scenario. The space is for another lane of traffic westbound. The big TV signals were on the scene today offering their regrets about your next few years in this neighborhood. They spoke to the well-patronized businesses on both sides of Brentcliffe Rd. As the video on the left shows, the line will be tunneled west from here to Yonge. The video shows the tunnel beginning at Laird but in fact that’s just the last station on the Leaside leg of the line (Mt. Pleasant, Bayview and Laird). Trains will emerge and exit from the tunnel at Brentcliffe with the next eastbound being Leslie St. Business people are shown speculating about what they will do. The shops off Brentcliffe can be approached from Vanderhoof. Those who know how to access Vanderhoof from Beth Nealson should be able to pull a fairly quick end run to get to these places. But it’s not going to be any good as a plan to go east on Eglinton. Global News Previous posts
British study concludes jet crashed into the ocean
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Here is a summary of important conclusions and questions established made today in the search for the Malaysian Airline Boeing 777 that disappeared more than two weeks ago went down in a remote corner of the ocean, “far from any possible landing sites.” Its last position: A British company calculated satellite data obtained from the remote area of the ocean where the search is ongoing, using analysis never before used in an aviation investigation of this kind, and pinpointed the last spot the flight was seen in the air was in the middle of the ocean west of Perth, Australia. No survivors: On the basis of this, the Malaysian prime minister left little doubt that all 239 crew and passengers had perished in the crash. Who and how: Malaysian authorities have not ruled out any possible explanation for what happened to the jet, but have said the evidence so far suggests it was deliberately turned back across Malaysia to the Strait of Malacca, with its communications systems disabled. They are unsure what happened next. Authorities are considering the possibilities including terrorism, sabotage, catastrophic mechanical failure or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or someone else on board. What’s floating in the ocean: The prime minister didn’t address whether investigators had confirmed floating objects in the ocean and images captured by several countries’ search parties, including that of France and China, were debris from the plane.
Medals, diplomatic passport stolen on Heath W.
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Police report the theft of military medals, decorative plates, a diplomatic passport, a computer and other items during a break on Heath Street West during what appears to be a three-day-absence by the owner. They say entry was gained by forcing a door sometime between 2 p.m. on February 28, 2014 and 5 p.m. on March 2, 2014. Police also report a break-in on Sutherland Drive on March 21, 2014 between 10 a.m. and about 8.30 p.m. Entry was gained to the premises by forcing a door. Removed were two computers, camera equipment, jewellery, watches and cash.
Man found dead in Millwood Rd. apartment
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Residents report that the police call to the strip of stores at Millwood Rd. and Sutherland Drive over the weekend was prompted by the discovery of a man who apparently died in his second-floor apartment. There is no indication of whether the police are treating this death as a result of natural causes or more suspiciously. The forensic investigation personnel checked out the apartment Sunday.