The South Bayview Bulldog

Daniel Smith, 19/Instagrram

A 19-year-old man, Daniel Smith, is dead after a stabbing at a house party in Mississauga overnight. Peel police say Smith was trying to break up a fight between two others outside the home where the large party was happening. It is located near Tradewind Dr. and Winston Churchill Blvd. The stabbing occurred at around 1:15 a.m. Paramedics say the victim was without vital signs at the scene and was rushed to hospital, where he was subsequently pronounced dead. :Photo below was shot by Kevin O’Connor of the Sun after sunrise. A neighbor told CP24 he saw as many as 100 kids outside the home.

Teen dead after fatal stabbing at Mississauga party via @reporterkevin: https://t.co/Vgb3wSLdmb #crimeandcourts pic.twitter.com/SWGetGoiHE

— Toronto Sun (@TheTorontoSun) May 26, 2018

The $60 million Lotto Max jackpot has gone unclaimed for another week. That’s why the government runs it. But don’t be bitter. Perhaps put the money in an RSP. Inveterate gamblers will wish to know that 21 of the 46 Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each were won, with four of those prizes being shared by multiple ticket holders. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on June 1 will again be approximately $60 million, but the number of Maxmillion prizes will increase to 50.

Many members

Car tracked for kilometres

Could be good

The Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) is set to introduce pay-as-you-drive insurance in Ontario in July. The plan permits drivers to buy insurance in 1,000 kilometre blocks and seems to herald a money-saving advantage for those who don’t drive too much.  The new program is called CAA MyPace. Drivers will pay a base yearly rate, and then each time you use up your 1,000 km block, the system alerts you and lets you pay for another. Klickage is automatically recorded by a device attached to the car.  CAA Insurance pitches the new plan at drivers who cover less than 9,000 km per year, like seniors and drivers who mostly use public transit. “Over the last number of years, auto insurance has been front of mind for a lot of Ontarians,” said Elliott Silverstein, manager, government relations, CAA South Central Ontario. “Today’s announcement provides an additional layer of choice for those who are low-mileage drivers and marks an important step in the modernization of insurance in Ontario.”

Car insurance horror stories in Ontario are causing speculation that the issue will be a factor in the June election. CBC says that according to insurance price aggregator Kanetix, the average price of auto insurance in Ontario has reached $1,700 per vehicle — up from an average of $1,458, according to 2015 data published by the province. But the story is worse than that right here in South Bayview where safe drivers with no claims are seeing leaps of $650 a year on the family car. In one case that jumps the premium of a 2012 Equinox to nearly $2,500 a year. Couples with two cars are paying $5,000 a year. All of this is occurring against a background of insurance rates that are much lower in other provinces. The story linked tells of bizarre calculations related to “neighborhood accident rates” for Toronto homes that are a few blocks apart. Rates must be brutal near Bayview and Soudan where there’s a bumper bender a day. What happened to a good driving record? Car insurance shoots up $600 per year after short move in west-end Toronto. 

A warm Saturday is in store for two school fairs and a garage sale at 817 Millwood  Rd. There’s also Woofstock and many other things to do. Check out the South Bayview Bulletin Board

Police and fire personnel have rescued a woman, 69, in Bradford north of Newmarket after a three-day ordeal stuck in a bathtub on the second floor of her home. She was too weak to climb out of the tub and survived by drinking water from the bath faucet. After the rescue, she explained that had been suffering from the flu and decided to take a bath. But she then found she was not strong enough to climb out of the tub. South Simcoe police were sent to a home on Wednesday night after a concerned friend said she’d been unable to contact the woman. When they arrived the house locked but while checking they noticed a light on in an upper level window. When they lifted themselves up to the window to look inside, they heard a woman’s voice call out for help from the bathtub.entry was made by knocking down the front door. The woman told authorities she views the incident as a wake-up call about help for day-to-day living.

Forum Research poll

Andrea Horwath

Bob Rae

A Forum Research poll of 906 randomly selected Ontario voters has concluded that 47 per cent of decided or leaning respondents would vote NDP in n the General Election on June 7. That compares to 33 per cent for the PC party and just 14 per cent for the Liberals. It appears Liberal voters are fleeing from the party and might be in a position to elect Andrea Horwath premier. It would be deja vu for Ontario Conservatives, recalling the surprise victory of Bob Rae in 1990. He was defeated by Mike Harris five years later and went on to change his loyalty to the Liberal Party of Canada.

GLOVES OFF

Meantime, the gloves are off as two PC candidates accused the NDP of ignoring anti-Semitic sympathies. Speaking to the media Friday, Todd Smith and Gila Martow claim that Scarborough-Agincourt NDP candidate Tasleem Riaz has openly shared pro-Nazi memes on social media and praised Adolf Hitler online. City News 

Peel Region Police Chief Jennifer Evans says there is no apparent terrorist or race motivation found in the early stages of the investigation of a bomb blast at the Bombay Bhei restaurant in Mississauga Thursday night. Two men ignited the bomb and then fled the restaurant at Hurontario St. and Eglinton Ave. Chief Evans said there were children under ten at the two private parties being held at the restaurant but none was injured  The men are captured in a security camera but their faces are mostly covered. Some 15 victims were taken to area hospitals and Friday morning three are in stable condition. The other 12 are recovering from more minor injuries.

This was a deliberate attack that happened at a family restaurant, with kids and the elderly inside…This act is senseless, cowardly and unacceptable. This is not the #Missisauga I grew up in and this is not the place to bring such violence. This is very disturbing. https://t.co/VMajmN2TiF

— Nitish Bissonauth (@NBissonauth) May 25, 2018

Jake

Johnny Orlando

Yulia Skripal

Faces begins with the sweet mug of Jake, seven years now, found wandering the streets in Pennsylvania. A vet found a chip and connected Jake to a family 2,000 miles away in Arizona. Listen to how Jake’s many new friends got him home. In centre, this will be old news but only if you’re under 18. Meet Johnny Orlando, a 15-year-old boy from Mississauga. He’s just become a huge sensation by covering Justin Bieber’s music and posting it to YouTube. Then lastly, the youthful face of Yulia Skripal. She and her Russian father were poisoned March 4 while she was visiting  England to see her dad. She has made a statement, the first since she was stricken.

Jon Burnside and friend Charlene Kew in 2014

Popular Councillor

Motown Brunch June 3

Friends of Councillor Jon Burnside will hold a fundraiser on Sunday, June 3 at the William Lea Room at Leaside Arena. The popular politician and former police officer will contest a re-drawn and renamed ward in the Toronto General Election October 22. Ward 26 will become Ward 33 following the expansion of City Council from 44 members to 47. Organizers are hoping for a large turnout at the reception and sit down. It is described as a Motown Brunch. That’s a clue to rocking style of entertainer Sharon Riley and the Faith Chorale.

TICKETS AND REBATES

Tickets are $100 a person and are subject to the generous rebate which applies to such political donations. Attendees stand to receive $75 back from the cost of the ticket. In Toronto, donations of between $25 and $300 receive a 75–per-cent rebate. Larger donations are subject to a complex rebate formula: when you give between $301 and $1,000, the calculation of your rebate is $225 plus 50 per cent of the difference between your total contribution and $300. And if you’ve given more than $1,000, your rebate is $225 plus 33-and-a-third per cent of the difference between your contribution amount and $1,000.

NOMINATIONS, NEW RIDINGS

Nominations for the civic vote are open until early August  So far there are no nominees in the new riding. Voters should check out this valuable Wikipedia page which names and describes all the ridings, new and old. People west of Bayview Ave. may find themselves confused by the re-naming of Ward 22 (Josh Matlow) to Ward 26. Yes, the same number as area now held by Mr. Burnside. They don’t necessarily make it easy.

Kinga Surma and Doug Ford

Pina Martino

A former candidate in Etobicoke Centre says PC leader Doug Ford paid for memberships for new Tories —contrary to party rules — and bused them in to help his preferred candidate, Kinga Surma, win the nomination in the riding where he lives. The losing contender for the Etobicoke Centre nomination, lawyer Pina Martino, filed a complaint, which included testimony from members recruited by Ford, said the former official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. But the party decided to allow Kinga Surma to remain as the candidate, the source said. National Post

Two gents are profiled here. One has lived with his parents for eight years and resisted all their effrorts to get him out. The other one has 30 children by an unknown number of women (even he may not know) and now wants the government to get busy with some help for him. But before you judge him, remember that this is what nature intended.