Alessandro Settimi, well known to South Bayview folks as the Mad Italian, has opened a second location at 639 College Street in the heart of Little Italy. Alessandro and his family also operate the first location of their excellent gelato bar at 1581 South Bayview (next door to Homefront).
Prashanta Yoga to open on Davisville
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Agnes Macphail lived here
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Is media fuelling Sheen’s disintegration?
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•One of a number of stories on this theme now appearing. From time to time the media are required to ponder whether their reliance on the cash register makes them complicit in doing terrible damage. We’re just asking.
Sleuth will move on Sunday, March 20
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•The Sleuth of Baker Street, 1600 South Bayview, will be carrying out books and other inventory on March 20 and taking them to its new location on Millwood Ave at Sutherland. The plan is to re-open at the new location on March 24, 2011.
Changing the face of Walder Ave.
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Billboard to kick off fund-raising campaign
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24th of May target for Shoppers Drug
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•Word around the Shoppers Drug Mart is that the store will open at its new location up South Bayview on the 24th of May weekend. This year the holiday falls on Monday, May 23, 2011.
Tsunami unlike any you have seen before
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•At about 15 seconds into this recording a sequence of the most graphic tsunami flooding begins. This of course is from among the many pictures coming from Japan this morning where an 8.9 earthquake has struck.
Canadian money to be made of plastic
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•The Bank of Canada has announced that it will soon start to make Canadian currency out of plastic. The new banknotes will have a markedly smoother feel from traditional paper money and will be harder to counterfeit. Most interesting CBC.ca story here.
Water repairs come back to Millwood
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RBC finds homeowners are confident
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•The Royal Bank has injected what appears to be a bit of common sense into the worry about whether homeowners can afford their houses. We have seen many recent alarms about an impending collapse of the housing market because people won’t be able to carry the interest. It all seemed rather overdone and now the RBC’s annual outlook suggests that Canadians agree. The bank’s survey suggests 85 per cent of respondents think they are doing a good job of paying off their loan obligations, and 73 per cent think they are well positioned even if the housing market were to drop. Maybe homeowners are too optimistic but there can be no doubt that they are a good deal more serious than many U.S. buyers about holding their homes and paying off the mortgages. The ethic is different. History may be helpful too. The story of the housing market in Canada includes the 1980s when interest rates rose to astronomical levels. That certainly slowed down purchases and depressed prices but did not collapse the entire market.