Sunnybrook Plaza will creak past 2020 before demolition

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Sunnybrook Plaza is merely a shadow of its former self but it appears business will continue in some form well into 2020 and perhaps beyond. It’s understood that the plaza’s owner, RioCan Reit, will avoid lease cancellation payments by letting tenants stay to the bitter end if they choose. But few will remain by late next year. Rexall is set to move into space around the corner at 1820 Bayview in April.

UPS to 82 Laird

The UPS store will move to 82 Laird Drive in a few weeks. That’s beside Express Hand Car Wash. The Ontario government has also told RioCan not to start work on redeveloping the plaza until the corner of Eglinton and Bayview is more or less back to normal. Seems that will be no sooner than mid-2021.

Darna Middle Eastern Kitchen

The new restaurant at 1613 Bayview will be called Darna Middle Eastern Kitchen. The windows of this new business remain papered over and there is no indication yet of the opening date.

Lotto Max jackpot of $32 million won by ticket in Quebec

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Lotto Max has announced that a single ticket sold in Quebec claimed the $32 million jackpot in Friday night’s draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Oct. 22 will be approximately $10 million.

Atwood refuses to state “message” of fearful The Testaments

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Margaret Atwood has told the CBC that she won’t “billboard” her award-winning novel The Testaments by saying just what message she was trying to convey in the book. It’s up to the reader, she told the interviewer. The Testaments is said to be dystopian in nature. That’s another word for apocalyptic. The interviewer seems to feel that Atwood sees the approach of Gilead, a land where male overlords have subjected women to near illiterate serfdom. Or then again, like many successful authors, she may intend the book merely as fanciful escapism

CGS kids learn civic duty as they elect student government

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Young campaigner reveals political connection
Her ballot, her right
Sebastian is the missing piece

General election day is Monday and at CGS in Leaside students are well aware of their civic duty to vote. That’s why they’ll be electing their student government on the same day as their moms and dads help elect a new federal government. Excitement is building in the halls at CGS as the race is on. Students in Grades 1 to 3 are hoping to become Mayor, Deputy Mayor or Class Councillor. Candidates are campaigning with colourful, inventive posters and preparing speeches to present to their peers. In the process, they’re to be part off the process of creating good, responsible government. CGS will be voting on Monday and they’re hoping you will be too.

Koch, Meir on all-woman spacewalk make repairs to ISS

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Astronaut Christina Koch, who is experienced in extravehicular activity (EVA), leads the operation to make repairs to the International Space Station. She is accompanied by astronaut Jessica Meir, who is making her first spacewalk on Friday. They will be in the vacuum of space for five and a half hours.

Jessica Meir and Christina Koch

Awesome on, Women’s Dinner and the rest of your weekend

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Awesome Sale
St. Cuthbert’s Woman’s Dinner

The Awesome Sale is set to start at 3 p.m. Friday and the usual happy mob of bargain hunter is descending on Leaside United Church for the first day of this annual event. It continues on Saturday. Friday night is also Women’s Dinner Night at St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church. Got your tickets? On Saturday, St. Cuthbert’s GreatKids StuffSale and the Manor Road United Church Rummage Sale. check them out.

St. Cuthbert’s GreatKids StuffSale
Manor Road United Church

Drug cartel soldiers force Mexico to release El Chapo’s son

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The sheer power of the Mexican drug cartel was on display Thursday as armed soldiers of the cartel besieged police in the northwestern City of Culiacán and forced them to free the son of kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Guzman is now locked up in the US.

Riot as climate crazies climb on top of London tube trains

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Extinction climate protesters climbed onto the top of London subway trains Friday with signs proclaiming imminent Death. It caused outraged commuters to drag them down and in one instance, beat a man. Meanwhile, in Alberta, counter-protesters are preparing to demonstrate against the appearance of Greta Thunberg, 16, in Edmonton.




The way we were, the mayor and Meghan and simply stupid

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Sunnybrook Plaza as we knew it (2009)

Posts to Leaside Community Facebook reflect the construction fatigue felt by millions of Torontonians who live near Eglinton Ave. Our collective once-in-a-lifetime five-year sentence to utter confusion makes many long for a recent past seen in images like that above. FB

The mayor and Meghan

Mayor Tory has spoken to City News about a public appearance by Meghan Murphy at a branch of the Toronto Public Library, a publically-owned building. He doesn’t like it but acknowledges Murphy’s right to her views. She is a contentious woman holding strong feminist positions but critical of so-called third-wave feminism. The slide towards men having access to women’s washrooms for reasons related to their gender identity is one of her frequent complaints. Wikipedia

Suburban sailor or simply stupid

And then there’s the search for the person clinging to the spoiler of a convertible as it sped through the streets of Oakville recently.

Suburban sailor or simply stupid?

Early morning outage, power surge across South Bayview

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Many residents across South Bayview are commenting on a brief power outage early Thursday morning. The Bulldog is able to verify outages in Leaside, Moore Park and parts of Davisville Village. FB

Free skating smack in front of Union Station over holidays

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Skates at Union Station
Tick tock away the holidays at Sir John A Macdonald Square

TD Bank and Union Station will add a large, free ice skating rink in front of the train terminal this Christmas season. It will sit smack on Front St. in Sir John A. Macdonald Square. TD is the banker for Union Station and the ice rink is part of the annual Union Holiday. Skating will be free and run from November 29 to January 4. The rink will offer skating lessons, skate rentals and helmet rentals. In addition to the rink, Union Holiday will be the home to free music performances inside the historic West Wing and free gift wrapping from December 9 to 24, compliments of TD.

Keeping Union Station a people place

With many retailers inside Union Station to provide holiday shopping, Union Station is offering something for everyone at Union Holiday this season. In case your wondering, Union Station is still owned by the City of Toronto. The deal with TD is an attempt to make the old station a people place both before and after rush hour. Maybe TD would like to try to breathe some life in Old City Hall when the courts leave.

Sunnybrook helipad will land air ambulances in November

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New Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre helicopter pad/Sunnybrook

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has completed the new helipad on the roof of M-Wing at the Bayview Ave. Campus. The new pad will improve access to Canada’s largest trauma centre and to the hospital’s program for high-risk mothers and babies. Construction of the rooftop helipad was completed in October and air ambulances are expected to begin landing in November.