Todays Menu now open at 850 Millwood

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As scheduled, the prepared meals business known as Todays Menu has opened at 850 Millwood Rd., at the corner of  Rumsey. The small shop has a simple set up of order desk and freezers with entrees available for those who wish to pop in and buy a few. The kitchen is off site. The main business however is delivering meals to area residents. As reported here earlier, Todays Menu specializes in prepared meals which are delivered according to requirement. Hours of business are Monday to Friday 11 to 7 and Saturday q0 until 5. Todays Menu delivers GTA wide Monday to Saturday and you can order online at http://todaysmenu.ca  Previous post. . 

Houses torn down on Laird Drive

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Two tumbledown old houses (inset) on Laird Drive have been demolished at the location known as 127-129 Laird Drive. The site will become Gyro Hyundai, a new dealership operated right across the street from Gyro Mazda by the same owners. Other demolition remains to be done on the site, which is owned by DEL Truck Equipment  As we noted in. January of 2011, a Hyundai dealership will be a good start to bringing back authorized car service to South Bayviewland and surrounding area. There was to have been a large auto plaza built on the old railway site at Laird and Esander Dr but the owners bailed out when the crash of 2008 occurred. The bankruptcy of General Motors removed both Brennan Pontiac on Bayview and the Saab -Chevrolet dealer on Eglinton east of Brentcliffe Rd.  Previous post.

China between a rocket and a hard place

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China, a key diplomatic ally of North Korea, has so far been silent after Pyongyang launched a long-range rocket, which failed shortly after blastoff. The official Xinhua news agency, China’s mouthpiece, quoted media reports from other countries regarding the launch. But China’s foreign ministry had yet to make a statement more than two hours after the launch was confirmed. China on Tuesday called on all parties to “exercise restraint” and avoid an escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula ahead of the planned launch. The launch has been condemned by the US, UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea and other western countries. The UN Security Council has called an emergency session for today. China seems at odds with itself about how to deal with the North Korea, which is offically known as the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. It wants peace and stability to help sustain its economy, but it has historic ties with the north.  And above all, it seems,.China fears a collapse of the DPRK and the inevitable flood of refugees it would send into China. 

“Push this button to add drama”

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$22 dollar an hour cleaners win the day

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City Council’s vote to retain unionized office cleaners making $22 an hour helps set the stage for a final showdown over how your money is spent. It will happen at the 2014 municipal election.  Council voted 12 to 29 yesterday to reject Mayor’s Ford’s proposal to contract out office cleaning. There are, apparently, millions of dollars at issue. A short-term contract with private cleaners has shown that the police service saved 47% over the previous cost of  cleaning one station. The linked story describes the extensive planning by those in favour of union agreements to defeat the economizers. Remarkably, the meeting features one councillor, Aana Bailoa, weeping with nostalgia about her days as an immigrant cleaner at City Hall. Evidently it swayed many councillors.      

Expect heavy traffic on Bayview this weekend

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City officials are advising motorists to use Bayview Ave and other north south routes this weekend as the Don Valley Parkway is closed for its usual maintenance.  And as usual this will make driving locally slower on Bayview and elsewhere in South Bayview as traffic leaks off onto east-west streets.  CityTV

Fashion Television cancelled after 27 years

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After 27 years on air, Bell Media has confirmed that production has been suspended on Fashion Television. Host Jeanne Beker tweeted the news today: “So surreal. This dream is over: After 27 glorious years, FT production ceased today. So sad to see some of my closest colleagues move on.” The weekly half-hour series roved the globe to collect a mix of news and feature pieces touching on the worlds of fashion, photography, architecture and design. Through the show, Beker has interviewed virtually every top designer over the years including Stella McCartney, Marc Jacobs, Tommy Hilfiger and the late Alexander McQueen. Bell Media has confirmed that Beker is staying on with the company, something the fashion pioneer seems very excited about. “Looking forward to working with Bellmedia + evolving the FT brand,” she tweeted. “Bell Media remains committed to the fashion genre and will continue to grow FashionTelevisionChannel to deliver a broader appeal for viewers, advertisers, and distributors,” Scott Henderson, vice president of communications at Bell Media, said in a statement.

How Toronto stokes ill will among citizens

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The city’s “gotcha” parking enforcement has long generated mistrust and contempt from its citizens. The ticketing process is born out of the sheer desperation of a government that spends and will not economize. If income or sales taxes were applied in the same unreasonable, unpredictable way, there would be a revolt.  Today on South Bayview, the inevitable abuse of the authority to tax played out again.  A shopper, nearly in tears,  ran to her car as the enforcement officer slapped a ticket on it. She was five minutes late. Well, you may say, the law is the law.    In fact, there is no other tax legislation that requires a citizen to guess whether he is going to be taxed because he misjudged the time of day. Or because he was routinely delayed a couple of minutes. And if parking enforcement were done merely to police the availability of parking, enforcement officers would behave reasonably.  There was, for example, abundant parking on Bayview Ave. as the ticket man taxed that shopper $30. In Toronto, parking fines have nothing to do with parking. It’s a disgrace that the City pretends to be keeping order when it is really out to fleece as many drivers as it can.  

Peugot colour coding an April Fool’s joke

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Silly us. Missed the one from Peugot that it sneakily put out a few days ago. An observer who saw the “Car that changes colour” gambit from the French auto maker said that if he hadn’t seen it on April 1st  it would have been easily believable that Peugeot had actually developed this car. This is the thing about technology now. You’re prepared to believe almost anything.  Cars are a good source of material for these tricks. Remember the Volt convertible last year?  Our thanks to the reader who told us about the colour prank.   

Burglars cut phone line at Bayview-York Mills

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As many as five would-be burglars with their faces covered cut the phone lines into the home of home security boss Joel Matlin in February. The 4 am. break in was foiled but only, it seems, because Matlin’s stepson was at home and  shouted at the burglars through a door as they were trying to break it down. Matlin is the owner of the well promoted home alarm company AlarmForce Industries Inc. The story of this remarkably aggressive break in is told in the Toronto Star today. Matlin was in Florida at the time but was able to monitor some of the events at his Bayview Ave and York Mills Road home by cell phone signals. Police have since arrested several men.   Toronto Star.

Big Box Blues abruptly take out Best Buy CEO

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Call it the Big Box Blues, a nasty combination of lowered consumer spending, high rents  and aggressive online competition. The blues hit Best Buy’s president today as he resigned abruptly as boss of the huge electronics retailer. Best Buy head office announced that Chief Executive Brian Dunn (left) resigned as part of a top to bottom re-alignment of the firm. The company faces stiff competition from discounters and online retailers. It’s missed sales expectations for several quarters in a row. Best Buy said director Mike Mikan (right) will serve as interim CEO while it looks for a permanent replacement for Dunn. 

Air Canada captain rapped for safety comment

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