The South Bayview Bulldog

Oldest bad boys Toronto-bound?

At Eaton Centre

The sudden appearance of signs with the Rolling Stone tongue sticking out and the date June 29, 2019, make it seem certain that the oldest bad boys in the world will bring their North American No Filter Tour to Toronto this summer. It happened by stealth at the Eaton Centre, Union Station, on the outside of Rogers centre and many other places. Fans are delighted and are burning up social media with their comments.

Are the Rolling Stones Toronto-bound with their No Filter Tour? https://t.co/83pjJaFlsI

— casey helmons (@caseyhelmons) February 9, 2019

Juicier in Washington to be sure, as the National Enquirer is accused of threatening to release naughty pictures of Jeff Bezos if he doesn’t disavow charges that the Enquirer is in bed (so to speak) with Donald Trump. In Ottawa, the former Justice Minister, one-time indigenous cabinet all-star Jody Wilson-Raybould, refuses to say the words Justin Trudeau longs to hear. To wit, “I wasn’t pressured to stop Lavalin SNC from being criminally prosecuted.” She just won’t say it. Juicy.

Shamrock Restobar

Food

Margaritas to Jim Beam

Hope springs eternal on Coxwell Ave as Shamrock Bowling, an East York landmark, gets set to open again Thursday, February 28. This time it will have food and dancing as well as five-pin action. The new name is Shamrock Bowl and Restobar. Nice. It has a food menu and beer, wine and liquor offerings ranging from Margaritas to Jim Beam. The legendary Shamrock dates from the 1950s but has been dormant since 2011 despite efforts by real estate agent Peter Knox the find an operator in 2017. The Shamrock is upstairs over Goodlife Fitness at 280 Coxwell at Gerrard St.  Looking for bowler to operate Coxwell Ave. 5-pin throwback

Annual skate

Jazz at Northlea

The South Bayview Bulldog Bulletin Board

HAZARD:
Danforth Av + Broadview Av
-Possible water main break
-Water seeping from building
-Starting to get onto roadway
-Water is now freezing
-311 has been notified@311#GO252985
^dh

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) February 9, 2019

Polar Bears at work

The third Toronto Polar Plunge is Saturday Sir Casimir Gzowski Park, 1751 Lakeshore Boulevard West. Toronto Police members of prominent in this charitable benefiting the Special Olympics. A release says TPS members are proud supporters of the plunge, which is organized by the Law Enforcement Torch Run. Check-in for participants will be at 11 a.m., with opening ceremonies, including remarks from Chief Mark Saunders starting at 11:30 a.m. The plunge will be taking place at noon.

No winning ticket was sold for the $10 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Feb. 15 will be approximately $16 million.

The Line One Subway will be closed Saturday and Sunday between Lawrence and St Clair stations while Metrolinx crews continue construction of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, which is scheduled to open in 2021. Shuttle buses will run along Yonge St., stopping at each station along the route. At Lawrence, Eglinton and Davisville stations, customers can get on and off shuttle buses on Yonge St. At St Clair Station, customers board inside the bus bay and exit on St. Clair Ave. E., outside the station. As an alternative, customers can use the 97 Yonge bus and the University side of Line One.

Gerald Cotton

Michael Maguire

Arieta Gouvakis

Hang onto your hat as reporters dig away at whether bitcoin smoothie Gerald Cotton, merely 30, (at left) is really dead of natural causes in India as reported previously. The Canadian lone ranger of cryptocurrency firm QuadridaCX supposedly expired in Mumbai with all the passwords and known whereabouts of $250 million in bits sealed inside his laptop.  And maybe he did. But that part of the world is known, say scribes, as a great place to get a false death certificate for yourself. Then at centre is Michael Maguire. the TTC bus driver who has made a hit (or whatever) with riders for his wild manicures. See his brightly-lit Instagram midway here. Lastly, that’s Dental Assistant Arieta Gouvakis at right. She’s given new meaning to the toothache by stealing patients’ jewellery when they were asleep in the chair.

#Breaking: Serial killer Bruce McArthur sentenced to 8 x life in prison with 25 years before he can apply for parole in the first-degree murders of eight men. He will be able to apply for parole at the age of 91. https://t.co/7VAPj8qvvo

— Toronto Star (@TorontoStar) February 8, 2019

There is much comment on whether the sentence given to McArthur is adequate. One tweet calls it “horrendous.”

Dr Andrew Samis

Need not reduce meat, eggs and dairy

Canadian Clinicians for Therapeutic Nutrition

Dr. Andrew Samis is an assistant professor of surgery at Queen’s University in Kingston and a member of a group called Canadian Clinicians for Therapeutic Nutrition (CCTN). He thinks the Canada Food Guide is a load of baloney. Samis told CTV Thursday he takes issue with the guide’s recommendation that meat, eggs and dairy should make up a smaller portion of the typical Canadian’s diet than previous versions of the guide had suggested. He says there is no reason for such advice and the clinicians body suggests it’s bad for you. CCTN declares online that the country is “in the midst of a staggering nutritional disease epidemic. We have record numbers of people with diabetes, obesity, fatty liver, metabolic syndrome and other dietary diseases, mostly since we started telling Canadians to eat less fat and more carbohydrates. High carbohydrate filler foods such as refined starch and sugar are pushed as the foundation of the diet. For most people, these mostly empty filler foods add calories with minimal nutrition. Although this would probably come as a surprise to most Canadians, we now know that the current low-fat guidelines were never supported by evidence.”