The South Bayview Bulldog

A judge has ordered a BC woman, 37, to stand aside and permit her parents to sell a home that was purchased with a $110,000 loan they made to her. The woman claimed money for the Vancouver Island home was a gift. But her brother received a similar loan to buy a home which he paid back. Now the parents say they need the money to pay off their mortgage and taxes. BC Supreme Court Justice Robert Punnett heard that the relationship between the parents and their daughter was normal until the dispute arose in 2016. The money had been advanced to provide the daughter a home while she pursued postgraduate studies at Royal Roads University.

Damaged beyond repair

The judge noted that while the land title documents, property tax bills and the defendants’ role in dealing with tenants in the home and the day-to-day care of the property were consistent with her assertion of ownership, such evidence was also consistent with the couple’s evidence and their stated reasons for the purchase. The parents had been very supportive of their children, particularly the daughter, given her lengthy education and her need for financial support, added the judge. The mom said Tuesday that she hopes other parents get a legal agreement that stipulates exactly what the parties intend in such a situation. “We were fair,” she said. “We were never vindictive to (our daughter), but we’ve lost our daughter now. I just don’t know how it can be repaired because it’s done so much damage.”

Where worlds meet –Starbucks moves to top of directory

Gentrified?

Wow!

Long Time No Tea

Long or short?

Thorncliffe Park’s Overlea Plaza at the corner of Overlea Blvd and Beth Nealson Drive is a local meeting place of mixed commercial and cultural phenomena. It may be the only plaza in Canada housing both a Starbucks and Cash Money store. Tell us if we’re wrong. Tuesday, workmen were moving the Starbucks sign from down below up to the top of the plaza’s directory. The sign of the green coffee lady is loved and hated on either of the gentrification agonies. But seldom does it cater to a clientele using payday shops. Elsewhere, customers in sunhats fresh out of Costco down the street mingle with stylish young men in kaftans and thobe trousers. Enjoy.

Paige Adele Thompson

A huge theft of personal data including about a million Canadian social insurance numbers has been reported by Capital One in the US. An employee, Paige Adele Thompson, is said to be in jail in Seattle following the late March 2019 theft which was facilitated by a “misconfigured firewall.” Catch the fascinating insight of CNBC commentators that this information was “sitting on an Amazon server.” What’s in you’re wallet?

Racheal Mohl and Matthew Hohner

At 850 Coxwell Ave.

Leftover signs?

Selling Vype at Loblaws

Village Station Restaurant

Hearty congratulations to Racheal Mohl and Matthew Hohner, seen at left, as 2019 winners of the David Stickney Scholarship. The $1,000 scholarships will support post-secondary education. They were given at the LHS commencement in June and keep the memory of the school’s much-loved mathematics teacher who died so unexpectedly in 2015. To the right, a reminder of East York Days Concert at the Civic Centre at 850 Coxwell next week. Below that, a picture posted to Leaside Community about no turn signs that hang around past their time on the Eglinton  LRT obstacle course. Take a look. Lower left is an uneasy gent peddling Big Tobacco’s Vype nicotine product at the Moore Ave. Loblaws service desk. The shoppers were eyeing him with suspicion. Lastly, at lower right, an ad from the long-gone Leaside Village Station Restaurant seen on Ann Brown’s Chit Chat FB page. Memories.

Audi Citycarver

Can you say Mini? Lots of people are saying that VW-owned Audi has introduced a sleek mini-market SUV that might compete. It’s called the Citycarver. What an evocative name. Say hello to the Citycarver

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Fortnite champion (because you need to know)

A US teenager has won a record-breaking $3 million to become world champion of the computer game Fortnite. It is the largest prize pool in the history of e-sports, with $30m shared among the winners. Kyle Giersdorf, 16, also known as Bugha, won the solo event of the competition in the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, which hosts the US Open tennis tournament. Jaden Ashman, a 15-year-old from Hornchurch, London, won almost $1.5 million for coming second in the duos event.

Trudeau Airport in Montreal/Karol Dahl Global News

People passing in and out of Canada at Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal Sunday faced huge lineups caused by what was called a national outage of the Canada Border Services Agency’s primary inspection kiosks and Nexus trusted traveller system. Arriving passengers had to fill out customs forms manually. The still-unexplained collapse ended later in the afternoon. Jenny Duncan, a spokesperson for Vancouver International Airport says YVR was notified of the outage around 7 a.m. Pacific Time and international flight arrivals began to get busier around 11 a.m. Passengers at Pearson’s Terminal 3 told CP24 that the outage is causing a several hour wait to clear international customs. At its peak, the congestion caused arrived flights to wait on the tarmac because there was no room for the passengers in the terminals.

Aircraft could not dock at terminal/Tom Podelec

Pink Lady at work

How’s your summer? A gal in a baseball cap carrying a pink purse is spending her July robbing banks on the US east coast. Then, a Manitoba survivalist has a cogent comment or two on the chances of Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky eluding the RCMP and the army. Not likely. Still with crime, the CBC wraps up that drug bust involving two Sunwing baggage handlers. Finally, the stunning Fortnite phenomenon. It’s a barely two-year-old E-game creation of Epic Games Inc. that seems to be swallowing an entire generation of male tweens in one gulp. Or had you noticed?

Switches cards at door

Service with a smile

Intercepts pizza delivery

Police have released pictures of three men suspected of pulling the old bank card switcheroo on unsuspecting pizza customers. Toronto police say that since mid-July they, and other GTA police, have been dealing with at least three felons who somehow “intercept” pizzas being delivered to homes. At the door, if the customers pay with a debit card the fiddlers gain both the PIN and the card, giving the owner a lookalike card. The accused then go straight to an ATM and empty the account. If you know any of these men call the financial crime units at (416) 808-7300. Earlier