The South Bayview Bulldog

Mason’s Fine Foods

Sandwiches

Meat shop coming

Eat in

Between Starbucks and Meridian Credit Union

Mason’s Fine Foods has opened at 692 Mt. Pleasant Rd. just south of Soudan Ave. It sits between Starbucks and Meridian Credit Union and is part of the regeneration of the block. Two doors down at 688, the former DiSantis Men’s Hair Salon is nearly remade into a modern retail premises. Mason’s is owned by Peer to Peer Hospitality and sells good-looking sandwiches and accessories made on the site for both sitting in and taking out. It will soon have a retail meat counter as well.

A man is dead after a shooting in an industrial area of Scarborough Thursday night. His name is published by media as Charankan Chandrakanthan, 25. Tammie Sutherland reports police believe a social gathering was happening in the area at the time and are urging any witnesses to come forward. Also happening is the stabbing of two teens in Brampton and the brandishing of firearms among young know-it-alls in the same City.

The so-called Climate Strike of students staying out of class to protest the state of the environment is proving a big success in many countries. The “strike” is set to last a week until next Friday. The concern of students is strong in places like Australia and India. There is no evidence of such activity in China, however, one of the world’s largest users of petroleum. The Climate Strike movement has been busy for several months. It is an issue of enormous complexity not least of which is the world’s growing population. Some young women have sworn publically that they will never have children because of the climate.

200-year-old oak

Concern for damage to roots

Lawrence Park resident Kate Wheeler has posted her concerns to Facebook about damage to a 200-year-old oak tree which sits on the property she owns with her husband near Mt. Pleasant and St. Leonards Ave. It is near the property line at the rear where a new home is being built, and reportedly, a pool measuring 32 by 16 feet which Wheeler feels may damage the tree roots.

Soccer fun at Dieppe Park/Morris Stoltz Evans LLP

Dad’s Rolls Royce at McSorley’s/Bulldog

Leaside sunrise/Russell Sutherland

330 Air Cadets want you/330AirCadets

Time for some pictures snapped personally or pulled from the sky by Bulldog agents in recent days. Upper left are the cutest soccer champs ever with their trophies at the East York Soccer League games this week in Dieppe Park. They wear the shirts of the law firm of Morris Stoltz Evans. Upper right, the vanity plates on this Rolls Royce outside McSorley’s suggest that the driver can thank his dad for an elegant ride. The saloon’s clientele must be impressed. At center-right is a stunning sunrise posted to Ann Brown’s Leaside Chit Chat page by Russell Sutherland, Visual Storyteller. We’re looking east down Eglinton from Don Avon about 6.45 earlier this month. At the bottom, well, we just love these guys from the 330 Air Cadets in the gym at Danforth Tech. They’re telling other kids who want to join the fun to get over to the school on Monday, September 23 at 6 p.m.

A Conservative government would overcome legal objections to building new petroleum pipelines by fast-tracking any cases right to the Supreme Court of Canada, party leader Andrew Scheer says. Scheer and other Conservatives have for years said Ottawa has to “assert federal jurisdiction” to get important projects built, but he has not until now explained what that would mean in practice. CBC

The Ontario Court of Appeal has delivered a split decision in favour of the province in the City’s challenge to Bill 5, the Better Local Government Act, 2018. The court found 3-2 that the legislation that reduced the City’s wards from 47 to 25 in the middle of the 2018 election is constitutional. Decision CBC

Russ Lewis robbed of $19,000 in bank card theft/Nick Dixon CTV News Toronto

Robbed on street?/CTV News Toronto

CTV has told the concerning tale of a mysterious pickpocket theft and high-tech bank card manipulation that cost a Toronto man $19,000 in just a few minutes. He is Russ Lewis, senior vice president and chief agent of a downtown reinsurance company. The theft occurred Monday, September 9 somewhere between his downtown office and a local lunch spot. Lewis told CTV he is unable to pinpoint just where his wallet containing five credit cards and two bank cards was lifted but video shows it did not happen in the restaurant. Maybe, he says, he was victimized by a close-up encounter in the elevator or on the street.  So strange. But within a few minutes, the perp or perps had cracked several cards and withdrawn the cash.  It appears that Mr. Lewis was with his bank manager trying to stop the theft even as the thieves tried to grab another $10,000 but were stopped.  Welcome to 2019.

2001 Party/Time Magazine

Justin Trudeau has apologized and spoken of “how much harder I’m going to have to work” to build a country free of discrimination. This, as a photo from an Arabian Nights themed party in 2001 showing Mr. Trudeau in blackface was published overnight by Time Magazine. The picture was taken at a private party held at Vancouver’s West Point Grey Academy and released to Time by a parent at the school. At the time, Trudeau was a 29-year-old teacher at the school. The photo was published in the school’s 2000-2001 yearbook called The View.

Then and now

The photo shows Trudeau with four smiling women who, if they were offended by his costume, don’t seem to be showing it. Political party leaders have commented very unfavorably on the photo and it is expected that pollsters will soon attempt to gauge its impact on the election’s outcome. City News video Also CBC

The City of Toronto Special Committee on Governance is inviting the public and neighbourhood associations to its coming meetings. City Council established the Committee with a mandate to consider the impacts on the City’s governance structure and processes arising from the reduction in the size of Council and make recommendations to City Council on any further changes to its governance structure. The Committee will hold its next meeting at 9:30 a.m. on September 25, in Committee Room 1 at City Hall. The Committee will receive a staff report on the engagement activities to date. Members of the public are invited to watch the meeting online, make a presentation at the meeting or provide written comments in advance. More information about the Special Committee on Governance, how to register to speak or making a submission to the next meeting is available here.

Ontario Minister of Health Christine Elliott has ordered hospitals to begin reporting all cases of vaping-related lung disease to the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health. “In light of the growing evidence, I have become increasingly concerned about the prevalence and possible health consequences of vaping, particularly as they affect our youth. At the same time, it has become abundantly clear that we do not have access to sufficient data and information to understand the potential scope of this issue,” Elliott said in a statement Wednesday.

First illness in Canada at London

She made the announcement on the same day public health officials in London announced Canada’s first case of vaping-related illness. The Middlesex-London Public Health Unit is expected to provide more details later Wednesday of the case involving a youth who has been diagnosed with severe respiratory illness that has been linked to the individual’s use of vaping products.

In Toronto, it’s Cheeseburger Day, the chance for McDonald’s fans to get a free cheeseburger with any purchase of a dollar. But in the quaint and historic village of Rutland, England, the battle is on to keep the Golden Arches at bay.