The South Bayview Bulldog

Among the most vivid images of Sunday’s wind storm is video showing huge chunks of ice tumbling up onto the Niagara Parkway off the Niagara River near the Peace Bridge. The road had to be closed for several hours near Mather Arch. Witty social media comments like “construction of the wall between Canada and the U.S has began” were seen on social media.

Perfect for climbing/Wikipedia

Now charged with mischief/CityNews

Lots to hang onto/Scotiabank Arena

A man climbed one of the 70-foot decorative towers in the Fane Zone of Scotiabank arena Sunday and had to be brought down by the fire service. He has been charged with public mischief. Reporters are asking why he did it. Because he could. The call came in about 5 p.m.

Son of Mother Russia

MPP Lindsey Park

Jason Dalton

Faces, faces and first off this stoic gentleman (left). He’s a young soldier-son of Mother Russia, guarding the Putin victory train. It rolled out this weekend to show fellow Slavs some 500 EU and US weapons and other exhibits taken from Syrian rebels fighting against the wonderful president-for-life, Bashar al-Assad. Sheesh. Then at centre, MPP Lindsey Park (Durham) is a Golden Girl of sorts for insisting that self-sufficient elderly people should be permitted to live together in single family homes. Finally at right is Jason Dalton of Kalamazoo. His story is that the Uber app took over his body and made him kill six people.

What can we say?

A young reporter chirps out more than four minutes of news about the new $3,500 (US?) Huawei phone called the Mate X. It debuted at the Mobile World Congress event Sunday in Barcelona. This video was posted a short time ago and it already has nearly half a million hits.

Keven Menager of the Mt. Pleasant BIA warns merchants locally about a scam call to a member of the BIA.  This one had a new twist on the fraud to get a credit card number given verbally over the phone:

Got a call saying they were from TD visa Centre, gave an “employee number” and said that the last Visa sale we had manually entered had been erased at their end because someone on our end had “hit the enter key too quickly” and that they needed me to give them the card details over the phone for them to  “make sure the funds got deposited to my account.”

No winning ticket was sold for the $10 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Feb. 27 will be approximately $13 million.

Weather system seen at 10 a.m.

A weather alert was issued about 5 a.m. Sunday calling for a major wind storm beginning near midday. “Very strong southwest winds with frequent gusts of 100 to 110 km/h will begin near noon in the wake of a sharp arctic cold front blasting across the region. Wind gusts of 120 km/h are likely in areas along the shores of Lake Ontario. The damaging winds will continue into this evening, then will gradually start to diminish overnight. Power outages are possible.” See weather radar live

A potentially damaging wind storm is expected to hit the GTA Sunday morning with Environment Canada issuing a wind warning for the region and all of southern Ontario. Hydro One is warning it could cause hundreds of outages across Southern Ontario. The difficult part is knowing how to prepare for such an outcome. It’s possible that gusts of wind of between 90 to 110 km/h might alter your life. But all residents can do is wait. “Very strong wind gusts near 100 km/h that may cause damage or power outages are expected late Sunday morning into Sunday night,” said the national weather service. See weather radar live

No injuries after the partial collapse of a house under renovation at Kingston Road and Birchmount in Sxarborough. #CBCToronto pic.twitter.com/gWJwNDBavl

— Michael Cole (@CameraMikeCBC) February 23, 2019

A home under renovation on Harding Ave. in Scarborough partially collapsed on Saturday morning causing a family to flee the stricken building. It ocurred mid-morning at the home near Kingston Rd. and Birchmount Ave. Homeowner Rick Saye told CP24 that he was about to get a shower when he heard some loud cracking. He says that he then heard his son calling out for him and ran downstairs. “I heard some cracking upstairs and then I heard my son downstairs and he yelled for me. I came down and then we just heard things start to move. Nothing had really fallen at that point, just cracks on the walls,” he said. Saye said that about 45 minutes after he and the rest of his family got of the house, the brick exterior on its north side collapsed.

A ticket holder in British Columbia won Friday night’s $25.9 million dollar Lotto Max jackpot. The exact location where the winning ticket was purchased was not immediately revealed. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Mar. 1 will be approximately $10 million.