The South Bayview Bulldog

The circumstances of the latest bitcoin disaster are enough to make anyone worry about the future of the race. Millions have vanished behind the cryptocurrency veil. Oh yeah, the young Canadian boss of QuadrigaCX has died mysteriously in India with the whole company locked inside his laptop. Crazy does not describe it. Then, Interpol thinks that ISIS has enormous potential to rise again as self-satisfied Western countries go to sleep. Below that, the Pope is in the UAE where some are calling him the Imam of Christianity. Lastly, Pam Seatle of City News reviews those hilarious Super Bowl ads.

Eating banana as hooded man appears

He tries to leap counter

Wife takes three swings with bunch of bananas

But husband pushes him back

Four captures from security video show Mississauga storekeeper Seungae Kim (upper left) eating a banana when a hooded man comes in. He tries to leap the counter (upper right) but Mr. Kim pushes him back (lower right). Mrs. Kim grabs the bananas and takes three swings at the man (lower left). The bananas are flying but it was no doubt the true grit of the Kims that sent the hapless perpetrator fleeing. Next time they may be hurling cans of soup or pop bottles.

Robbery:
Yonge St/ St Clair Ave.
– Robbery at a business
– no injuries reported
– 3 male suspects have fled, still outstanding
– SB Yonge St temporary closed just N of the intersection for investigation@TPS53Div #GO216233^adc

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) February 3, 2019

Toronto Police are warning of a quantity of lost Percocet tablets near Jones Ave. and Gerrard St. Saturday morning.  They say the “pills/capsules could be harmful/fatal if ingested, especially to children.”

Updated report from Caledon aired on City News at 6 p.m. The single fatality is named as Joseph Wescott, 54.

Early learning in the arena lobby for this little guy

Happy medal winner of the George Bell Titans

Coach asks Flames to keep up energetic play

Back room tries to stay on top of winners, changes, snowbound parking lot

Buy an instant picture of a player

Young Flames duel with balloons. Of course

The schedule for the Leaside Select Invitational Tournament indicates that championship games are being played back to back in both rinks Sunday evening at Leaside Arena. More than 2,000 kids played in games scheduled at several local arenas including the Angela James in Flemingdon Park. Bulldog photos

The unique lobster restaurant and caterer Smoke and Cracked at 516 Mt. Pleasant by Millwood Rd. has closed. The circumstances are not too clear but the owners, Mike Kash and Ron Raymer, appear to be heading off on different roads. Mike is promoting his new business, MK Catering on the Facebook page. Sad to see them go. It was goood lobster. Local lobster house conceived over two bottles of Guinness

Kash and Raymer

Seized from 17-year-old in a Maserati

OPP public relations sergeant Kerry Schmidt is tweeting Sunday that he has some plates off a Maserati being driven by boy 17 at 150 km/hr in Mississauga. Don’t ask. But the plates were “unlawfully attached” to the Maserati. Police are asking the owner — Mr. Sexy — if he wants the plates back. They must be traceable of course but the effort is good for a smile. An amusing story about off-colour and misbegotten licenses places is here.

• Original art, unseen in over a century, uncovered in Ontario legislature
• Costco fined $7 million by Ont. government for taking illegal kickbacks
• Toronto MP who wrote ‘let’s just whack’ Doug Ford says he was referencing whack-a-mole

Asia Bibi

Shin Ok-ju

Delphine Boel

Faces of women in the news this Sunday begins with Asia Bibi (left) the Christian woman recently spared death by hanging in Pakistan for her beliefs. It is said Canada is trying to bring her here but that is not settled and extremists continue to call for her death in her homeland. At centre is Shin Ok-ju, pastor of the cult-like South Korean Grace Road Church. She is under arrest in Fiji, where the church has transplanted itself. The Fijians don’t like the growing foreign presence or its violent ways. Then at the right, artist Delphine Boel, reputedly the love child of the former King of Belgium, Albert II and Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps. Albert is refusing to take a DNA test to prove his paternity. But a Brussels court is insisting

Maple Grove Road in Caledon Village Sunday morning/City News

One person has been found dead after a home was destroyed in an explosion this morning in Caledon Village. OPP at the scene on Maple Grove Road say the call came in just before 6:30 a.m. OPP Const. Ian Michael tells City News the age and gender of the victim is unknown and police say they have not determined if there are other victims as it’s too dangerous to go inside. City News

There is one winning ticket for Saturday night’s Lotto 649 jackpot of just under $33.4 million, and it was sold somewhere in Ontario. An Ontario ticket holder also claimed the draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Feb. 6 will be approximately $5 million.

Michael Bublé has an amusing role as a spokesperson for the Pepi sparkling water Bubly. You can see the silliness coming. And then a look at the science of how they measure in advance whether a Super Bowl ad is likely to please you. Each 30 seconds is worth $5.5 million US so there is a lot of pressure to get it right. Interesting piece from CBS.