The South Bayview Bulldog

Two policemen have been captured in video apparently flirting with two women at a west-end bar, the Queen Street Warehouse. The women are seen laughing Sunday night as they are handcuffed in a suggestive moment of roleplay. The two officers, identified today as Jian Liang and Aaron Isaac, are under investigation.

Bruce Tomlinson

Judy Booth

Anja Van Beek

The three dead in Friday’s double-decker bus crash in Ottawa are named Monday as civil servants. They were all on their way home from work when the bus slammed into the overhang of a bus stop at Westboro station. They are Bruce Tomlinson, 56, Judy Booth, 57, and Anja Van Beek, 65. Close two dozen others are injured.

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Police will ride streetcars and buses as part of the distracted driving campaign which starts Monday. They will peer out the window into vehicles below and perhaps communicate what they see to other police nearby.  The blitz is set to last until next week but there are suggestions an effort will be made to extend it. City News video.

When women patronized milliners

1412 Queen St. W/Sstrong@hotelbaudin

Renovation at 1412 Queen St. W. has revealed the sign of a 1930s women’s hat shop, Parkdale Millinery. It appears the sign, which has been partially disassembled but not yet destroyed, belonged to a business run by a man named Arthur Levine. Records show him there in 1931. Many stores have filled the space since then but Gordon Robb, who will open a cycle store there in March, says he would like to preserve the sign if he can. The sign recalls a time when women, and men too, wore stylish hats all the time when in public. Men visited a haberdasher to buy the necessary headgear. Holy Spaceballs! Sign for Mel Brooks classic on Eglinton W.

A shared interest: Local lad and police officer discuss the rubik cube toy handed out Sunday/Bulldog

Jon Burnside, George Mullin and Dave Croutch/Bulldog

Spirited game/Bulldog photo

Hot dogs, toys like rubik cube games and frisbee discs helped police and citizens mark a decade of ProAction Hockey in Flemingdon Park Sunday. Angela James Arena on Grenoble Dr. was full of community friends, locals, moms and dads helping to tie skates and notable friends of the program. Jon Burnside, who spearheaded the program ten years ago, was seen chatting with two other ProAction originals, George Mullin and Dave Croutch. Among others present were MPP Kathleen Wynne, Deputy Police Chief Peter Yuen and women’s hockey legend Angela James. Many high-ranking officers and rank and file mixed with the crowd. Three PCs got to stand outside to cook the popular hotdogs.

One man has been shot Sunday afternoon near the corner of Church and Colborne Sts, south of King East. Reports on his condition are mixed but it seems his injuries are serious at the least. The location of the shooting, constructed from fragments of information seems to have been the laneway off Colborne behind a building on Church. The Google image below shows it. The view looks east to Church along Colborne.

Work at Bayview and Davisville to repair watermain breaks/Bulldog

Scene on southwest corner/Bulldog photo

A number of residents were scrounging for water Sunday as emergency repair of two breaks was underway at Bayview and Davisville Aves. Workmen said the job would be finished by nightfall.

Residents near Bathurst St. and Ellerslie Ave. are out of their homes on this cold Sunday as a gas leak forces evacuation. Police say they are being housed in a shelter bus. The leak occurred when a vehicle, so far unknown, struck a gas line or main. There are no injuries. No timeline is stated for repair so far. The first report is 15 minutes old at 10.20 a.m.

Highway 401 remained closed eastbound at Townline Rd. in Cambridge Sunday afternoon/DR@Media371 Twitter

A tractor trailer collision with another vehicle has shut down Highway 401 in Cambridge and caused a jet fuel spill. OPP say both directions of the highway are closed between Townline Road and Highway 6 South. The crash happened around 2 a.m. Sunday, causing 50,000 liters of jet fuel to spill onto the highway. The clean-up is expected to take several hours and there is no estimated time for the highway to re-open — City News

Overturned tanker spilled jet fuel/OPP photo