Wheel of Fortune contestant Jessie Rebhan of Palmetto Bay, Florida, has won US$37,000 with a stunning deduction. She correctly guessed Buying a Juicer with only four of the 13 letters on the board.
Fare inspectors fight with rider in Friday Twitter sensation
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Struggle on 501 Queen streetcar during Friday rush hour/Twitter @CascadingDesign
A fight said to be between TTC fare inspectors and a passenger on the 501 Queen streetcar is posted to Twitter Friday. The owner of @CascadingDesign writes: “The officers approached him, asked for proof of payment, and he blew them off. They then insisted, stopped the streetcar, and as he got up they crowded in. He tried to move in the opposite direction (and it) then turned into mutual shoving and then punches.”
Cabaret at the Manor to open at MRUC on Saturday evening
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Cabaret event
Through MRUC doors
Love is the Answer as Manor Road United Church holds what is billed as Cabaret at the Manor Saturday evening. Toronto’s Jason Fowler, a regular at Hugh’s Room, will be one of the musicians on stage at the Cabaret.
Canadians land at Base Trenton to wait out virus quarantine
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Cruise ship prison, Kirk gone at 103, Bieber and Tomlinson
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Canadians on the Diamond Princess, now moored in Yokahama, are quarantined in their cabins until authorities can be sure none of them has the coronavirus. Then, Kirk Douglas is dead at age 103. Below that, videos on the separate debuts, of a sort, for Justin Bieber and Britpop star Louis Tomlinson
Wildcats celebrate National Women and Girls in Sports Day
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Shining faces of some Toronto Leaside Wildcats
This great photo was posted by the Toronto Leaside Wildcats to mark National Girls and Women in Sports Day. Talk about shining faces.
January homes sales rocket up 15.4% over 2019 says TREB
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The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says January home sales were up 15.4 percent from the same month last year, while it expects home sales for the year to rise about 10 percent overall. January saw 4,581 home sales, up from 3,968 last year, while the average sales price of $839,363 was up 12.3 percent compared with a year earlier. Looking ahead at the year as a whole, the real estate board is forecasting about 97,000 home sales, up from 87,825 last year. It expects the average selling price to run at about $900,000 for the year, up nearly 10 percent from the average of $819,319 last year as new listings are expected to be flat to down — Canadian Press.
Laughable conditions for total strangers to rent your place
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Real landlords must be laughing as Airbnb, the 21st Century substitute for finding a responsible tenant, scurries to say it will set conditions for young people looking for a place to party, and perhaps shoot each other. City News
Dead of winter forecast calls for snow on and off next week
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The Weather Channel is forecasting another cm of snow Friday after the approximately two cm fall overnight Thursday. Then it predicts another one to three cm Sunday with as much as four cm Wednesday. Dead of winter.
Artist Scott Steele posts bit of Bayview shopping nostalgia
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Shops in north block as seen in first decade of the 21st Century/Scott Steele
Area artist Scott Steele has posted a nostalgic painting of two stores in the north block of South Bayview Ave. to Leaside Community Facebook. They show Trae Zammit’s Smokin’ Cigar and the late Leo Cornacchia’s barbershop. Over the years, Smokin’ Cigar moved two doors north and then south to 1540 Bayview Ave. Mr. Cornacchia died in 2016. Scott Steele on Instagram.
Indignation as musician says virus hoax was good publicity
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There is widespread indignation and outright anger after a musician, James Potok, 28, has said “it was good for publicity” when he falsely told a planeload of vacationing passengers that he had the coronavirus. Mr. Potok has since apologized.
CUPE denies saying City trying to privatize garbage pickup
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CUPE Local 416 denies that it was accusing Mayor Tory of scheming to privatize garbage collection when it released a statement Monday saying that the City was preparing for privatization by calling for a no board report from the Ontario Labour Minister. Typically, such a report means the government will not attempt conciliation between the parties. Local 416 has been without a contract since December 31. A statement released by the union to The South Bayview Bulldog Wednesday further insists the City has not rejected conciliation. The option of privatizing refuse collection to the east of Yonge St. has been an on-and-off prospect since Mayor Tory pledged to follow Rob Ford’s course in privatizing collection to the west. After the election, Mr.Tory and other councillors changed their minds, making the case for a mixed system.