The occasional pop-up outlet by Sign of the Skier is currently at 1707 Bayview Ave. in the north block. That’s the former home of Olive Oil Emporium.
Many a citizen would love to be a fly on the wall when government engineers at Metrolinx and their counterparts at the construction-firm consortium called Crosslinx Transit Solutions discuss the mysterious “defect” under the Yonge and Eglinton Station. Whatever its precise nature, the so-called defect has blown away the schedule for completion of the Crosstown LRT. The $5 billion transit line will open — it is hoped — sometime in 2022, but just how confidently anyone feels about that seems draped in shadow. Friday, there is a story that Crosslinx is proposing that the LRT open without the Yonge-Eglinton Station but that Metrolinx has yet to agree.
Combined police action in Peel, York, Toronto and the OPP territory beyond has resulted in the arrest of six men for organizing screaming car-stunt gatherings and drag racing. About time. Then, a heartless killing of a man walking to his car with his child and its mother. Really beyond belief but sadly all too typical of dangerous Toronto. This City may not be as bad as Chicago but it is far worse than civilized places like Sydney, London and Tokyo. Below that, City Council has voted to hold public hearings on whether to change the name of Dundas St. A referendum? Lastly, a physician in the UK has devised a one-man flying paramedic outfit which he says can save lives. (But it might endanger his).
Here we see the empty corner of Bayview and Moore Ave. in a photo from 1955 looking west. There was no apartment building on the as-yet uncreated southwest corner because the streets formed a T-junction. The Bayview extension was begun in 1959 and took Bayview snaking into the valley. The Petro Canada station was a Supertest fill-up next door to someone’s home. Signage suggests the northwest corner held a Shell station.
Nor was there a Loblaws in 1955 but we can show you the smaller Loblaws store (2009) which had a nice covered walk along the east side. That would be handy for today’s C-19 lineups. Below is the expanded Loblaws, completed in 2010.
Ryan Spitzer of Hanna Rd. has collected and delivered, with the help of the community, 125 pairs of donated washed and cleaned gym shoes to Thorncliffe Park Public School this week. The shoe drive is in its 6th year and helps ensure kids from kindergarten through grade five are ready to play. His task required ingenuity during the C-19 pandemic because schools were not available to collect and hold shoes. Instead, public-spirited people were asked to deliver the shoes to the Spitz front porch.
The NDP support for the Liberal government seems to hang on just how generous the new Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) is going to be. Will you be able to collect it for the sniffles? It worries some that (choo) you will. Then, Wednesday is the first of TDSB deadlines to decide on whether your youngster will be taught in class or virtually this year. Below that, Nuit Blanche at a distance begins this weekend. What a crazy world we live in. Finally, Megan and Harry insist their deal with Netflix is for the most cultured form of documentaries. The British media has been suggesting a royal version of Dating Naked.
SERRA, the South Eglinton Ratepayers and Residents Association, has issued a “Call to Action” in advance Tuesday evening’s virtual meeting to discuss the 27-storey proposal for 733 Mt. Pleasant Rd. The release provides detailed information on how to register and participate in the meeting. It begins at 7 p.m.
Residents will demonstrate Tuesday morning to urge slower speeds and wider sidewalks for the high-speed stretch of Avenue Road between St. Clair Ave. and Bloor Street. It sees some 30,000 vehicles a day and anyone who has walked the slivery sidewalks knows the meaning of fear. Five associations are allied as the Avenue Road Safety Coalition (ARSC). They are urging the City to establish an immediate pilot project to widen sidewalks and to lower the speed limit to 40 kilometres per hour between Bloor and St. Clair. Eighteen large banners will line Avenue Road calling for “Wider Sidewalks and Slower Speeds”. Details
A long thread at I am a Leslievillian FB account reveals the tricky business of casually accepting references for contractors seen on Facebook. The community forum is valuable but it can be misused.
There were 700 new cases of C-19 counted in the overnight period, a record number since the infection was first detected in Ontario. The cases reported Monday were found in 41,000 tests. Critics of the government often focus on a failure to achieve far higher test totals. The capacity of provincial facilities and staff is estimated somewhere near 80,000 tests a day. The previous high C-19 count was 640 cases found on April 24 with far fewer tests.
Ontario is reporting 700 cases of #COVID19 with more than 41,100 tests completed. Locally, there are 344 new cases in Toronto with 104 in Peel, 89 in Ottawa and 56 in York Region. 60% of today’s cases are in people under the age of 40.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) September 28, 2020
The distress and in some cases anger of parents flowing from a positive C-19 result for a pupil at Cody Junior Public School has caused the admin of the Davisville Parents Facebook account to limit further comment. The long thread is seen here and reveals the confusion and upset of many during this difficult time.
Toronto Public Health has issued a warning for patrons of Regulars, 668 King St. W., that three employees of the bar have tested positive for C-19. Anyone who visited Regulars between September 13 and September 22 is asked to self-quarantine for 14 days and arrange for testing.
