Patrick Chan, of Ottawa and Toronto, has won the gold medal on Saturday at the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow, part of figure skating’s Grand Prix series. Italian comentary. Patrick Chan
Home assessments averaging jump of 23%
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Homes in Toronto have seen increases in assessment averaging 23 % in the current notices sent to taxpayers. The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation sends out new evaluations based on market conditions and real estate trends every four years. As any homeowners knows, Toronto real estate prices have risen dramatically. The impact of those higher market values is being seen in assessments
Tagalog our fastest growing language: Harper
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Tagalog is now the fastest growing language in Canada, visiting Prime Minister Stephen Harper said yesterday in the Phillipines. Harper said Filipino communities are also the fastest growing in Canada, even in the farthest and most remote areas. He said he would also soon have a Filipino cousin-in-law. Results of the 2011 Census of Population: Linguistic Characteristics of Canadians released by Statistics Canada (StatCan) showed that Tagalog is the fifth most common non-official language spoken in Canadian households. “Nearly 279,000 people reported speaking Tagalog most often in 2011, up from 170,000 five years earlier,” the survey said. Mt. Harper and his wife Laureen are on a brief visit to the Southeast Asian land. The Philippine Star
CBC to shut down its radio drama studio
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The CBC’s Studio 212, home of radio drama production, will close at the end of the year, the CBC has announced.As part of the federal budget cuts this spring, the CBC will no longer produce radio dramas, so the production facility at the Toronto headquarters will be disassembled. Its last creation, the popular war series Afghanada, wrapped in the spring. Studio 212 was also the laboratory for the mystery series Midnight Cab,Monday Night Playhouse and Rumours and Borders. (Anyone ever listened to any of these? Just asking.) Link to Star story
Manure smell sparks an explosion of opinion
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So what was that smell? We may never know for sure but the comments of those who faced it are fun to read. On Twitter, some joker said it was the Argonauts. (Hey, offside). Then there was the smart alecky Tory who said it might be the Ontario Liberals having an early leadership gathering. (Pee-yu) On a more serious note, a reader of the Star says shame on the newspaper. Anyone should know that it’s the time of the year that farmers load the fields with manure all over Ontario. Some of the stench is going to hit populated areas. Well maybe. Then there was OntarioRuMP saying check the lake. Which one? There were complaints from places along the shore of Lake Erie noting the annual Autumn nature of this smell. Authorities blame lake water ‘inversion’ as the cause, but many are still suspicious that it is manure run off from the pig farms along the lake, says this contributor. Other shots, the sulphur explosion in Acton (who knew?) and the Royal Winter Fair (not likely).
St. Cuthert’s Christmas Fair is on today
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Better to sit than stand is the motto of these ladies waiting to enter the St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Christmas Fair which opened this morning at 11 a.m. This year’s line up was at least as long as that last year, where 203 people were waiting to get at the donated goodies. Parishioner Robin Dickie kindly prepared a description of events at the St. Cuthbert’s Spring Fair back in May and it is still in the archives of the South Bayview Bulldog. Take a look and then trot over to today’s fair which is on until 3 p.m. There’s lunch too.
Repair blackouts along Eglinton East today
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Repairs to an underground cable vault that caught fire recently is causing the power to be shut off to 40 buildings in the Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue area. The power outage was originally expected to last until 1 p.m, but it is expected to last longer. The buildings affected by the outage are bordered by Duplex Avenue to the west, Bayview Avenue to the east, Broadway Avenue to the north and Soudan Avenue to the south.
What smells? We smell? Toronto smells?
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An outbreak of Memories of Manure seems to have hit Twitter with a goodly number of complaints about barnyard odours in the air over our town. Citizens noticed it on both Laird Drive (not too far from the commercial waste yard, mind you) and also on Bayview. Then CP24 weather guy Chris Potter told the 5.45 audience that, yeah, it smelled a little bit like manure out on Queen St West. He said it might be because of a weather inversion over Toronto. We checked the air on the edge of South Bayview (Mt Pleasant and St.Clair). Pretty fresh Write to The Bulldog if bad smells strike! news@bayview-news.com
Postal Station K is sold: Josh Matlow Tweet
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Councillor Josh Matlow is tweeting this afternoon that Postal Station K at the southwest corner of Yonge and Montgomery Ave. (Broadway to the east) has been sold. He was asking followers to join a 4 p.m. rally organized by MPP Mike Colle to once again demand that the building be left as it is. There is indignation that the federal government has sold the post office. Residents around the area are of course concerned about shabby glass high rises. We can only sympathize with those who don’t want to see such things. On the other hand, this is Yonge Street and it is perhaps reasonable for the government to expect to be able to recoup something from a building that is utterly redundant in the day of the twitter and text and Skype. Good people-oriented redevelopment is what is needed.
Rona chief resigns as some see Lowes still lurking
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The man who put together the Canada-wide Rona empire, Robert Dutton, is resigning in the wake of Q3 profits that fell by 90 percent on competition and one-time costs. It ends a two decade run in which Dutton performed an amazing do-it-yourself achievement. Taking over on an interim basis will be Dominique Boies, executive vice president and CFO. Many see this move as offering another chance for the U.S. DYI home fixer Lowes to make a bid for Rona..6 p.m. swarming at Thorncliffe and Overlea
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Toronto Police Service report: A 15 year old youth reports that on November 7, 2012 at approximately 1800 hours, he was walking in the area of Thorncliffe Park Drive and Overlea Boulevard, when he was approached by 4 male suspects. One of the suspects removed an iPhone from the victim. The suspects fled the scene in an unknown direction. No injuries were sustained by the victim.
Stuck car stalls Bayview traffic for over an hour
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Traffic was brought to a total standstill on South Bayview in both directions this morning when it was necessary to bring in a flat bed truck to remove a disabled car. The vehicle was stuck in the southbound lane outside the Bagel House south of Belsize Drive for more than an hour, stretching the patience of drivers. We love our two-lane Bayview Ave. but from time to time it has its downside. We have no word on unnecessary horn honking and in fact local motorists are very civilized about delays when people must parallel park. The honking thing is a special file at the South Bayview Bulldog which would have signs placed to warn against horn rage.. Pictures Sue Byford