The South Bayview Bulldog

The Danforth Business Improvement Area will host the 2019 Taste of the Danforth street festival beginning Friday through Sunday with road closures starting at 10 a.m. Friday and ending at 3 a.m. Monday. Danforth Avenue between Broadview Avenue and Jones Avenue will be closed to all traffic

Leaside resident Wilmar Kortleever has been observing police activity at the Bayview Ave corners north of Eglinton where drivers continue to make illegal turns during rush hour. Mr. Kortleever notes that some (a few, many?) of the drivers eager to slip in and out of the neighborhood illegally are residents of Leaside. No doubt they are among those who voted against the outrageous idea of permanent concrete blockades (or jersey barriers) at these intersections. Leaside jersey barriers archives

The province plans to offload funding for commercial blue box pick up to businesses, or so it seems based on this City News report. As it stands, homeowners pay taxes to Toronto for regular pickup of recyclables. A right, a child is bitten by a bear at the Vancouver Zoo when she got too close to the cage. At least, that’s how zoo officials explain it. Below that, two reports on Canadian tennis stars playing in Montreal and Toronto.

Hanna and Sutherland

Inglewood and MacLennan

Now open at 747 Don Mills

Yonge and Davisville

Nerpy’s is at Grilltime

Northlea corn roast

It’s a special construction method seen all over Toronto. At left, is the rubble left at Hanna Rd. and Sutherland Drive. This mess has been there a month. It’s because one crew wrecks the old sidewalk and an entirely different one lays the new walkway. Top right, a fine old Inglewood Drive original is getting an addition near the corner of MacLennan Ave. Center-right, the sign of Service Ontario reminds us that a new storefront has opened in the Flemingdon Park Shopping Plaza at 747 Don Mills Rd. Enter off Gateway Blvd and you will see it between the Vietnamese restaurant and the Vape store. Centre-left, a tweeted photo of how Toronto’s modern refuse bins just don’t seem to get emptied before the trash is all over the sidewalk. This one is at Davisville Ave. and  Yonge St. Lower left, they say Nerpy’s hot sauce will thrill you or kill you. The Toronto-made condiment is now at Andy Elder’s Grilltime on Laird Drive. Finally, it’s never too early to make note of the Northlea corn roast coming up in September.

Chef Victor Barry (?: pianopianotherestaurant.com)

?: pianopianotherestaurant.com

Post City Magazines has confirmed that Piano Piano is getting a second location uptown. Chef Victor Barry confirmed to Post City that the new restaurant is slated to open this October. The location will be 623 Mt. Pleasant Road, the former location of the recently shuttered Birch Bistro. Piano Piano describes itself as “the Italian restaurant you always wished was just around the corner. Sophisticated and fun, Piano Piano serves deeply satisfying food that comes in just the right size. The menu features traditional Italian fare that’s been elevated to its most delicious self. If there’s a common thread that runs through Piano Piano, it’s a deep-seated soulfulness and sensuality that’s at once warm, welcoming and just plain fun.”

Prices up for all properties

Canadian Press reports that the Toronto Real Estate Board GTA home price index was up 4.4 percent in July as the supply of properties for sale tightened and the number of sales jumped 24.3 percent from July last year. The TREB said Tuesday the overall average selling price for properties in the Greater Toronto Area was up 3.2 percent year-over-year to $806,755. The number of properties sold increased to 8,595 from 6,916, with sales of all four categories of housing up by double digits.

Officials at London’s Heathrow Airport and a union representing 4,000 workers have averted a two-day strike at Europe’s busiest airport during the peak of summer travel season. The strike, which had already been called off for Monday, will also be suspended Tuesday so that the workers, including security guards, firefighters, engineers and drivers, can vote on a package offering improved pay. Heathrow and Unite the Union both confirmed the news on their Twitter accounts; however, the union said it was keeping its planned strike for Aug. 23-24 on the calendar until it learns the result of the vote

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Canadian basketball players apparently have no interest in playing for Canada. Along with Andrew Wiggins of the Minnesota Timberwolves, who already was ruled out, several other prominent Canadian players won’t play for Canada, including Denver guard Jamal Murray, New York Knicks rookie RJ Barrett, Cleveland’s Tristan Thompson, Dwight Powell of the Dallas Mavericks, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of Oklahoma City, and Nickeil Alexander-Walker of the New Orleans Pelicans. CBC

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Is a municipal cull of raccoons in order?

Woman complains of filth

Many members are responding to a concern by a Leaside resident on the weekend about raccoon filth and the need to control it. As is known, municipal legislation seems to view the raccoon nuisance as stray6 cats. Is it time for a municipal cull of raccoons?