Leaside-Eglinton Pet Hospital opening soon

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A new veterinary is moving into the TD Canada Trust building at Laird Dr. and Vanderhoof Ave. Leaside-Eglinton Pet Hospital indicates by a sign that it will open soon. There may be others, but the two other vets who comes to mind are both on South Bayview, although there are dog groomers elsewhere.. The new one will be occupying space, as is the TD, in the old Pease Foundry offices and factory. This attractive building in Art Modern style still has some spaces for lease. Read comment from S which informs this post a little.

Royal, TD raise residential mortgage rates

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Royal Bank and TD Canada Trust announced Monday they are raising regular and special rate mortgages, effective July 5, 2011. The changes were in the range of 0.10 to 0.15 percentage points and affected fixed-rate mortgages.Both banks raised the trend-setting five-year closed rate by 0.15 percentage points to 5.54 per cent. Postmedia News

Bungalows tumbling on Vanderhoof

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The “bungalow streets” in east Leaside have long been a happy hunting ground for builders and homeowners wanting to bump up in a nice neighborhood. But it seems as if the pace has quickened over previous years and especially on Vanderhoof Avenue. Left is 79 Vanderhoof, we believe. To the right a picture of an original one storey home and beside it the bump up at 75 Vanderhoof which we told you about April 12, 2011

Baidu will link to Microsoft’s Bing

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Baidu, the foremost Chinese search engine, has announced that it will soon carry a link to Microsoft’s Bing search engine. It’s not all that clear from this New York Times story just what the full meaning will be of this but Baidu people are quoted as saying Baidu needs to do a better job of providing English language searches. This raises again the pressure felt by Google to censor searches as required by the government. There’s nothing in the story about how Bing, for example, will reconcile this apparent reality of Chinese business with its search service available throughout the rest of the world.

Is graffiti really art or merely graffarti?

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We have a special treat for you today. Here are some genuine pieces of South Bayview graffiti. Don’t you care for them? Would you like to see them gone? Especially off of your garage? Then friends you are subject to the same appalling middle class authoritarianism that afflicts the new municipal administration. The trendiest foreboding says that Rob Ford and his mad wall painters can’t tell art from artichokes. Many fears have surfaced. One struggling artist said that if they prevent him from painting on freight cars no one in the U.S. will see his work. Okay, let’s get a grip. When Rudy Giuliani was elected Mayor of New York in 1996, he was reviled for saying he would clean up the streets and subway. He did it and was revered for his efforts well before his heroics on 9-11. New York survives as the art capital of the Western World. You can find all sorts there, even our crossover category of doubtful art, graffarti. The great, the giddy and the gruesome. Just not on your garage.

Red Robin Bridgewater Biscuit Barrel

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This is the Emma Bridgewater Biscuit Barrel finished in her unique Robin Red Breast design. You might call it a Robin Cookie Tin. Right now, Homefront has a selection of new Emma tin containers (round cake, coffee, sugar and tea containers) with the Biscuit Barrel being the most notable. It’s available in three styles: Robin, Polka Dots and Pink Hearts. $42 at Homefront, 371 Eglinton Ave. W and 1579 Bayview in South Bayview.