The South Bayview Bulldog

Jasminka Crvchevska/CBC

Jessica Crowell and Laurie Middlehurst/CBC

Monday morning

A Peel Region woman, Jasminka Crvchevska, has given birth by the side of the Queen Elizabeth Way Monday when her new daughter just decided to arrive a bit early. Fortunately for Jasminka, she was in the back of a Peel Region Paramedics ambulance on her way to hospital. The birth is said to have been uneventful, even for paramedic Jessica Crowell, who had never assisted at a birth. Her partner, Laurie Middlehurst is a pro however and knew enough to tell Crowell to pull over and get ready to go to work. Jasminka was able to immediately get on her iPhone in Facetime to show her husband his new daughter.

It will be warm this week with heavy fog forming Monday night and possibly extending into Tuesday in same areas. Fog has developed in some parts and may become quite dense at times tonight. Visibility of 100 to 200 metres is expected in many localities. The morning commute Tuesday may be affected by fog. It is expected to lift later Tuesday morning as a stubbornly slow warm front finally moves through to the north of the area.

The Canadian Medical Association says it has resigned from the World Medical Association, accusing the international group’s incoming president of plagiarizing his inaugural speech. In a statement released on Saturday, the CMA says it discovered that part of Dr. Leonid Eidelman’s speech was taken from a former CMA president’s speech in 2014. Current CMA president Gigi Osler says she and the Canadian delegation were at the WMA annual general assembly that took place this week in Iceland when they identified similarities in the two speeches. Global News

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Cleanup crew/Jon Burnside

Baby’s Breath at Longo’s/Bulldog

Cupcakes mean wellness/Leaside High School

Author of Lane Winslow mysteries will visit Sleuth of Baker Street Oct 13

Randolph Rd. monster/Bulldog

Seton Park from Hiscott Bridge/Rudy Limeback@rudydotca

Here we go with a South Bayview summary that begins (upper left) with a shot of just a few of the worthy souls who cleaned up the Thorncliffe Ravine Saturday. PC Harold Shin (Neighborhood Resource Officer of the Community Response Team at 53 Division) says there were more than 100 volunteers ready to go at 9 a.m. That’s Councillor Burnside on the job in the centre. Well done all. Upper right, the delicate flower named Baby’s Breath (Gypsophila) was appealing at Longo’s. Below that, teachers make cupcakes for all at the Leaside High School Wellness PA Day. Nice. At centre left, Mystery writer Iona Wishaw will be at Sleuth of Baker Street at 3 p.m. October 13 to sign and promote her new Lane Winslow novel. The hero is modelled on Wishaw’s mother, a World War II spy. Fascinating.  At centre this monster ghost is living on a lawn on Randolph  Rd. with many autumnal colours. At bottom, a shot by Rudy Limeback of E.T. Seton Park from the Charles H. Hiscott Bridge at the east end of Overlea Blvd.

New Costco employs many from the Thorncliffe/Flemingdon area

Figures recently compiled by The Thorncliffe Office (TNO) indicate that as many as 240 residents of the Thorncliffe and Flemingdon neighborhoods have obtained jobs at the new Costco store on Overlea Blvd. These include some 120 “sampler” employees engaged by Club Demonstration Services to work offering samples at Costco. A similar number of area residents were hired directly by Costco for warehouse work. The TNO information notes that all these jobs are “permanent temporary”  like all Costco employment. Some employees were hired for the summer (students) and employment ended at the end of August. Costco will hire again for the Christmas rush. The onus is on the temporary employees to connect with Costco to provide their availability. These particular jobs will also be seasonal employment.  The jobs are described as “good” paying minimum wage plus full benefits for employees. Costco policy is to promote from within so enterprising staffers have a chance. TNO also calls the simple opportunity for “a live/work experience” to be a huge benefit. Employees save on transit, travel time and family/child care is easier to manage.

No winning ticket was sold for Friday night’s $60 million Lotto Max jackpot. There were 40 Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each possible and 14 of them were won. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on October 12 will remain at approximately $60 million, but the number of Maxmillion prizes will increase to 42

A motorcyclist has died in a collision with a car late Friday on Scarlett Rd near Lawrence Ave. W. The photo above taken by Peter Muskat (@peter_muskat) shows the Lexus vehicle involved as well as the wrecked bike. The collision appears to of the head-on type. Sharing of the road will be an issue.

Banksy, the mysterious darling of street art, has performed a disconcerting elaborate prank on auction goers by having a successfully auctioned work shredded before the eyes of those present. The work was in an ornate frame which contained a shredder in the bottom. At the conclusion of the bidding, with the work having sold for more than a million pounds, a signal of some type sent the painting into the shredder to emerge in strips below. Banksy posted the moment on Instagram with a sneer: “Going, going, gone.”  Presumably the  gulled purchaser will not be paying. The identity of Banksy continues to befuddle the media in spite of what must be extensive business dealings in which real names would be required.

Stunned onlookers watch as Banksy work shredded by device in hidden in the frame/Banksy Instagram

Two Waterloo Police officers have been cleared of responsibility for the death of Nathan Wehrle, 15, and his girlfriend, Taryn Hewitt, 16, of London. The two died in October last year when they struck a transport truck as they fled police on Highway 6 near Hamilton. It was a case of a reported abduction gone wrong when a bystander saw Wehrle arguing with the girl outside a pizza shop. Police responded. This week the Special Investigations Unit said it concluded the two were fleeing because Wehrle was in a stolen car. Tony Loparco, the director of the SIU, noted in his report that “I am unable to establish that there was a causal connection between the actions of both subject officers and the catastrophic collision that caused the tragic deaths. There is no evidence that the driving of either of the two subject officers put any of the members of the public at risk throughout any part of the pursuit.”

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A study by the C.D. Howe Institute, a conservative think tank, suggests that the legal supply of cannabis will fall far short of demand. It notes that Canada’s likely supply of legal marijuana may be about 210 tonnes compared to the current demand of 610 tonnes. The author says: “The important policy conclusion is that there will not be enough legal supply, especially during the first half of the year following legalization, primarily because of the slow rate of licensing producers.” There has been much speculation about the continuing bonanza in the sale of black market dope even after legalization of its use.