The South Bayview Bulldog

Another Lexus has been stolen from a Leaside driveway while the keys were inside the house. An interesting conversations about insurance is underway started by this post. FB

Sigh. Sorry to hear. What insurance company is willing to insure Lexus cars after all of this? The company really should fix the vulnerability at their expense if they want their brand to survive.

It’s a pretty sad story from a condo unit at Hurontario St. and Burnhamthorpe Rd. in Mississauga St. Three young men are dead and a fourth is in hospital. They’re all in their 20s. The place contained “laced, illicit substances.” The investigation goes on. This occurred Wednesday afternoon.

Toronto C-19 new cases have begun to soar as the province reports 33 such infections in the City in Wednesday’s report. Province-wide, cases have fallen slightly to 102. It’s evidence again of the insidious nature of the virus. No one wants to think of himself as “a carrier” but sadly each of us must do just that. Mask up and spread the mask and distancing protocols.

It’s a sunny day in mid-August and a timely moment to review Cows in the News. The tweet at left shows a surprise visit to a front lawn in the Village of Russell near Ottawa. Their owner came to get them. At right is the chopper lift of a Swiss farmer’s favorite cow. The final tweet shows a rather unusual repose by two cows. They seldom sit like Rover. Enjoy.

The City of Toronto virtual meeting on the Roehampton neighbourhood street-persons shelters is scheduled for Wednesday, August 19, between 6 and 8 p.m. on Cisco Webex. The South Eglinton Ratepayers and Residents Association (SERRA) mailed a notice early Wednesday indicating that it is now part of a new community liaison committee (CLC). Toronto release

It’s cheeky we know but the operators of this garbage truck decided to dump the whole load of rubbish onto Simcoe St. Monday to save the vehicle and permit firefighters to extinguish a fire. There’s a reason they call it the Entertainment District.

Can you drop that rubbish again, Jack?

City Manager Chris Murray

Library classroom?

Toronto City Manager Chris Murray has sent a letter to the local school boards saying there are dozens of spare rooms in municipal facilities and public libraries that could be used by public schools this fall. As many as nine library branches might even be closed and temporarily converted to schools to meet the need for distancing space during the C-19 pandemic, he suggested. Both the public and Catholic boards are trying to reduce class sizes to prevent the spread of the virus. In a letter sent to the heads of the Toronto District School Board and the Toronto Catholic District School Board on Tuesday, Mr. Murray said that staff has identified 36 rooms in 24 City-owned facilities that can easily be made available to both boards without having to cancel programming.

This interesting video posted to I-am-a-Leslievillian Facebook account shows a larcenous young couple stealing porch furniture in the middle of the night. The light-footed woman boldly leads the way. Every now and then she takes a swig of an energizing drink. FB

Chrystia Freeland is Canada’s new finance minister following the abrupt resignation and departure of Bill Morneau Monday. Great intrigue roars in Ottawa Tuesday that former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney will be the real backroom minister. He has recently been hired as a Trudeau aide. Some say Carney will run in Morneau’s riding of Toronto Centre when the minority Trudeau regime calls an election.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau has quit his portfolio as well as the House of Commons as scandal swirls around he and the prime minister over government dealings with the WE charity. The CBC says Monday night that Mr. Morneau, of Bennington Heights, will bid to be the next secretary-general for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) with headquarters in Paris.

• Morneau a “sacrificial lamb” says U of T political wonk