The South Bayview Bulldog

Bayview extension southbound at Brickworks at 9.30 Sunday morning

A flood warning is in effect across the Greater Toronto Area until Monday morning. Locally, the flood watch is on after a night of furious rainfall. Remarkably, the lower Bayview Ave. extension is open Sunday as shown by traffic camera pictures taken at shortly after 9.30 a.m. Some 40 mm is said to have fallen and another 15 mm is expected on Sunday,

Mississauga flooding submerges vehicles

Three people had to be rescued after two vehicles became trapped under floodwaters on Torbram Road just south of Highway 407 after a significant rainfall overnight.

Torbram Road/Ryan Belgrave City News

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 Oct. 30 will be approximately $9 million.

141 Davisville Ave at Pailton Crescent

A man and a woman were found suffering fatal injuries Saturday in an apartment unit at 141 Davisville Ave. at Pailton Crescent. Officers responded to an “unknown trouble” call just before 1 p.m. Circumstances are unclear.

New evacuations were ordered Saturday for at least 50,000 people near a huge wildfire and millions of Californians will have their power cut again as the state’s largest utility said it would shut off electricity for the third time in as many weeks because of looming strong winds and high fire danger. Pacific Gas & Electric said it would begin blackouts in the afternoon for about 940,000 homes and businesses in 36 counties for 48 hours or longer throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, wine country and Sierra foothills. That’s about 90,000 more customers affected than previously predicted.

Beamish Vinage Pram Group

A group of British women, older moms, have defeated loneliness and depression by finding companionship in their love of baby dolls. Next, the CBC has profiled an entertaining interactive Dr Suess exhibit at Square One Shopping Centre. Below that, Adrian Ghobrial of City News digs into the government’s efforts to protect kids from vaping. Interesting. Finally, Felicity Huffman is released from prison after 11 days of her 14-day sentence for bribes paid to inflate her daughter’s SAT scores. What’s next for her?

Corgi at COBS fit for a regal owner

An hour for a table at Eggstatic

Pumpkin tart at Rehier but maybe not for breakfast

Haha

Starbucks (name your poison)

South Bayview Ave. is well known as The Bulldog’s favorite high street and Saturday was no different as sunny sidewalks thronged with shoppers, diners and coffee drinkers. A fine-looking Corgi awaited a treat (maybe) from COBS. We asked and found that the wait for a table at Eggstatic was about an hour and the lineup at Sophie’s was out the door.

But the rain will come

No winning ticket was sold for the $15 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Oct. 29 will be approximately $20 million.

Two workers on scaffolding on the east side of Stantec Tower were left dangling as high winds descended on downtown Edmonton Friday afternoon. Edmonton Fire Rescue Service crews responded to the scene just before 1 p.m. to perform a high angle rescue. Fire rescue officials weren’t entirely sure why the two were up there but they believe it had something to do with maintenance work. Fire said one of the two was lowered to the ground and was looked after by EMS. The second worker was successfully rescued just before 2 p.m. The video is from Yongshuai Liu. Edmonton Journal

The Annual Greek Day Parade will take place Sunday and road closures will be in place for most of the day. The parade will go northbound on Euston Avenue from Donlands Avenue (full closure) and then westbound on Danforth Avenue from Donlands Avenue to Broadview Avenue (full closure) The parade will end at Broadview Avenue at approximately 3 p.m. Organizers say the parade will take place regardless of weather conditions. The Weather Network is forecasting 15 to 20 mm of rain.

John Epping and Ryan Fry chat with Peter Steski/Team Epping

LHS 75 committee/Leaside High School@tdsb_LeasideHS

Subway outcasts fill street/Wes Chiasson@wes_chiasson

Free skating

Please give

Leaside’s Team John Epping is busy at the Grand Master Tournament in North Bay this weekend. Epping and Ryan Fry sat down with curling master of ceremonies Peter Steski for a wide-ranging chat which can be seen on YouTube. Upper right, stalwart LHS alumni cooking up plans for the school’s 75th anniversary set to be celebrated October 22-24, 2020. Centre-right, another of many shots showing the chaos caused this week when an outside contractor blew a hole in the tunnel wall on Line 1. That’s Yonge and Davisville, of course. Down at the bottom, there’s free skating Halloween-style at Leaside Gardens tonight. Above all, don’t forget to give blood next Tuesday at the Northlea Blood donor Clinic.

Margaret Atwood receives Order of the Companions of Honour for her services to literature. (Facebook / @TheBritishMonarchy)

Margaret Atwood has been awarded membership in the Order of the Companions of Honour for her services to literature. Atwood, a native of Bennington Heights, met and shook hands with her majesty, who is 93, as she accepted the award at a ceremony Friday at Windsor Castle. The CBC says the author of The Handmaid’s Tale was attired in a dark dress, brightly multicoloured scarf and a wide-brimmed red hat. The 79-year-old author told British media that she felt “a bit emotional” in the presence of the queen.

ATWOOD RECOUNTS PAST EXPERIENCES IN ENGLAND

Listen to British High Commissioner to Canada, Susan le Jeune d’Allegeershecque, sit down with Canadian literary legend, Margaret Atwood to discuss tea, Atwood’s experience living in the UK and the future before us. (June 2019)

Car into a pole on Laird Drive at Lea Ave/CP24 Twitter

Impact of collision with median/Bulldog

The driver of a southbound car got a little too close to the median that divides Laird Drive opposite Leaside Centre Thursday night. The result was a wrecked car and a lot of work to repair the median. Three people were injured and one of them, a man in his 20s, is reported to have been quite traumatized.