The South Bayview Bulldog

Crowds flood out of Festival Theatre/Leith Tomasek Twitter

Opening night of the annual Stratford Festival in southwestern Ontario has been cancelled because of a bomb threat made against the festival’s two main theatres. Both the Avon and Festival Theatres were evacuated about dinnertime and a thorough search conducted. So far, nothing has been found. The threat was made in the form of a phone call to the town police. Festival officials were immediately advised and the two theatres were evacuated as a precaution. Mayor Dan Mathieson spoke briefly about the situation. Al Tucker, 75, was at the festival with this wife and friends. They had just made their way to the balcony of the Festival Theatre, he said, when police yelled, “Everybody out!” “It’s very disconcerting, but with all the things going on around us in the world, we’re not as surprised as we might have, should have been,” he told the CBC.

#BREAKING Threats against Stratford Festival force evacuation of Festival Theatre during opening night, #StratfordON Mayor Dan Mathieson says pic.twitter.com/rG3IWoCSEI

— Juha Jonathan (@Juha_Jonathan) May 28, 2018

Metrolinx was warning that there will be overnight work on water lines related to LRT construction in the vicinity of Eglinton Ave. E. between Sutherland Dr. and Laird Dr. It is unplanned work and the warning is conditional — residents “may be affected by the water shut-off.”  The estimated water restoration time is Tuesday May 29, 2018 at 7:00 a.m.

• Starting: Monday May 28 at 1:00 p.m. (overnight)
• Duration: Approximately eighteen (18) hours
• Affected Properties: Properties on Eglinton Avenue East between Sutherland Drive and Laird Drive
• Note: the duration of the utility interruption may be longer or shorter than expected.

Taps with water soon

Historic pipe just gave up

Workmen at the scene of the water main break on Bayview Ave between Balliol and Merton Sts said they were turning on the water Monday night shortly after 8 p.m after a long day for residents. Work saw the old watermain (above) pulled out of the ground and replaced. It may well have been in service when the present St. Cuthbert’s Church across the street was built in 1914.

BMO and CIBC both say they have heard from alleged cyber hackers that personal information has been stolen. But the banks are apparently not quite sure that anything has in fact been taken. BMO said it was working with authorities to assess the situaton and CIBC did not confirm a breach. Both banks said they were contacting customers and advising them to monitor their accounts and report any suspicious activity. What the strategy of thieves might be is a bit obscure.

Resident ponders broken water main site/South Bayview Bulldog

Large areas of Davisville west of Bayview Ave south of Davisville Ave are without water Monday after an early morning water main rupture on Bayview between Balliol St and Merton St. Homes on Bayview, Balliol and part of Merton over to Cleveland are dry. The ABC Academy on the corner of Bayview and Balliol is carrying water from Starbucks, as are residents. One helpful place still with water is St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church. Toronto employees suggest it will take the rest of the day to restore service. They said the call came in at 6.30 a.m. The southbound lane of Bayview is closed from Davisville to Merton

A special heat warning is issued for Toronto, the first such event of the season. It will be hot today and tonight as seen in the forecast below. These conditions can pose a health risk when you are not used to the heat.

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Shooting: Tapscott Rd and Washburn Way in @TPS42Div – Victim shot in the head and pronounced on scene. Intersection closed. pic.twitter.com/6FYYlOQpKc

— Tony Smyth (@LateNightCam) May 28, 2018

Lester B Pearson High School and Dr. Marion Hilliard School will be closed Monday after discovery of a the body near of a young man on the high school property overnight.. Police say the victim was shot in the head. They are looking for one perpetrator. This is near Tapscott  Rd. and Washburn Way.

Yonge St remains closed in both directions at Isabella Av for a crash involving a minivan and motorcycle. Male rider transported to trauma centre with critical injuries. Reconstruction unit on scene. #Toronto pic.twitter.com/2Q16MGUXq5

— Jeremy Cohn (@JeremyCohnTV) May 27, 2018

A man is said to be in life-threatening condition after his motorycle collided with a vehicle at Yonge and Isabella Sts. Sunday about 5 p.m. Yonge St was re-opened to traffic late Sunday.

Late Mitzy is seen here in old photo/Stacy Majchrowski

Stacy Majchrowski show $243 ticket/Nick Boisvert CBC

A Toronto woman has received a $243 ticket from the City of Barrie for a dog-off-the-leash incident some 20 years ago at her cottage in the area. Thing is, the dog in question, Mitzy, did not even belong to Stacy Majchrowski. Mitzy belonged to a neighbor, the late Nick Nixon. Ms. Majchrowski remembers the day well. The bylaw officer gave her a ticket because Mitzy had strayed onto her property. She referred the man to her neighbor. Nixon also got a ticket and paid it, says Majchrowski. She thought the matter was finished. But the long arm of the dog police in Barrie now wants $243 including interest for that “offense” committed way back when Google was just a funny name for an obscure thing on the Internet. “At first I thought it was a joke,” Majchrowski told the CBC. “Well, no. No, it’s real.” And although lawyers think the circumstances of the ticket should invalidate it, they say Barrie is within the law to try to collect fines that old.

azanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe,

Marky Szutrin and mom

Alan Bean

Left is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Tehran. She got five years in 2016 for “spying” and now a judge is telling Ratcliffe she is likely to be convicted again on charges of “teaching journalism.” High treason for sure. And please don’t bother asking for the evidence in either case. None of your business. Centre is the precious face of Marky Szutrin. He is desperately ill with leukemia. But friends in Toronto are working to help this brave little boy. Finally, Alan Bean, 86, used to recall his wonderment as he looked at earth from the surface of the moon. Then he would tell himself, hey, get busy collecting rocks.

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The absence of Premier Wynne from the Leaside Property Owners Association all-candidates meeting last week has raised questions as to why. Obviously, it is a busy time for Ms Wynne but one might think she would wish to be present for a gathering like this in her own riding. Carol Burtin Phipp, co-president of the LPOA, has said that the Premier had said shortly after the invitation was sent that she wanted to be at the meeting but it was up to the Provincial campaign managers. “Subsequently LPOA Director Andrea Villiers kept in close touch with Liberal head office who said they would do their best,  but it was only confirmed for sure on the morning before our meeting (Tuesday, May 22) that Thunder Bay, not Leaside, would get Wynne. Till then there had been some hope.”  On the night of the meeting there was a belief or theory among some that party leaders had agreed not to attend meetings in their own ridings. This appears to be without foundation.