The South Bayview Bulldog

Efforts to combat the COVID-19 virus around the world seem to confirm what scientists and doctors have understood for centuries. Strict quarantine will absolutely stamp out the infectious scourge if only governments and their peoples are disciplined enough.

Ontario cases now set at 20

Also Tuesday, the Ministry of Health said there are two more confirmed cases of the virus, bringing Ontario’s total including recoveries to 20. A further 45 people are under investigation. The cases are in the GTA and were diagnosed in two people who recently returned from Iran and Egypt. Both are in self-isolation.

Writer David Nickle says in Tuesday’s Toronto.com that East York’s Justin Van Dette is helping business people along O’Connor Drive east of St. Clair to form a BIA. The news will be welcome to residents throughout the area. O’Connor stretches some 2.2 kilometres from St. Clair to Victoria Park Ave. Nickle calls it an eclectic mix of businesses. And while there are many proud enterprises along the street, at places the sense of the street is spotty. Along O’Connor, “you have a block of retail, a block of apartment buildings … retail and apartment buildings,” Mr. Van Dette is quoted as saying. “It’s very disruptive, just the way the streetscape is.” Toronto.com

Crowd goes wild as Mary Ann, 84, sure-shots golf ball to win Nissan Ultima

Sporting moments to savour as fan Mary Ann Wakefield, 84, sinks a 94-foot putt (the length of a basketball court) to win a new car. All of this at the University of Mississippi. At right, the pleasant back and forth as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Mayor Tory exchange baseball jerseys while she visits Toronto.

Prototype of the new device. Custom-built to each patient, it will deliver focused ultrasound without the need for real-time MRI/SHSC

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has announced a $16.7 million grant from the W. Garfield Weston Foundation to begin the Weston Family Focused Ultrasound Initiative at the hospital. The concept is hoped to revolutionize the treatment of brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, brain cancer and ALS. Focused Ultrasound

Ontario reported three new cases of the novel coronavirus Monday, bringing the total in the province to 15. The province’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. David Williams, is expected to provide details about the new cases at a news conference this afternoon. A spate of new cases was reported over the weekend, all of them people who had recently travelled to Iran or Egypt, or family members of those who had visited the countries. Williams has said that so far it doesn’t appear the virus known as COVID-19 is spreading locally.

A complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal the Ottawa school board will proceed to a formal hearing. It comes from the parents of a six-year-old girl who was told by her teacher during class that “girls are not real.” That was in 2018. Her parents maintain the child was deeply upset by the assertion.

Shock as Metrolinx says cost outweighs benefits

A story in the Globe and Mail says the cost of major transit projects will far exceed their benefits. The report attributes the conclusion to Metrolinx documents. In particular, an analysis released Friday of the Scarborough subway extension concluded it would bring $2.8-billion in benefits over a 60-year period, and cost about $5.5-billion to build. Josh Matlow

No winning 649 ticket

No winning ticket was sold for the $7 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Mar. 4 will be approximately $9 million.

Ontario has confirmed three new positive cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the province to 11. The new cases involve a woman, 34, in York Region, and another woman, 51, and her husband, 69, in Durham region. Both women had just returned from Iran. York Region public health officials have begun a search for anyone who might have come in contact with one of the cases, either in the air or on a GO bus to Richmond Hill. As of Saturday, there were 20 confirmed coronavirus cases in Canada. The number includes eight in B.C. and one in Quebec. There have been no deaths. CBC

Gregory Mathieu, 22, used to be an employee of an IGA store in Quebec city. Now he and his family are pondering how to spend and invest the $70 million Loto-Quebec jackpot won by Mr. Mathieu last Tuesday. CTV says the young’s car had been breaking down all the time. That problem is solved. Mathieu appeared Friday with family members and co-winners Ursule Jolicoeur, Sandra Julien, Sonia Julien, Sylvie Julien, Denis Lessard, Derek Prevost and Stephane Provost.