The South Bayview Bulldog

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.

Breaking Thursday, the US has canned the planned meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore over “hostile” language from the Supreme and no doubt super-dear leader (ugh). And Morgan Freeman is in hot water not for wandering hands but loose language. Some will call it vulgar, others inappropriate and yet others more like purple flirting. It’s beyond “do you come here often”.

Thursday’s game at Rogers Centre will not be available anywhere except Facebook. For many it seems like the triumph of greed over common sense. But MLB and Facebook shook hands and exchanged the rights to put 20 games on teeny screens for $35 million. That includes the match with the Angels starting at 12:30 p.m. Blue Jays game won’t be shown on TV and fans are FURIOUS Twitter

nope! tried facebook last time…hated it!! will never do that again! the announcers were terrible booooooooo! #MLB @mlb

— Sandie 💚🌻🇨🇦 (@IamSandeeDee) May 24, 2018

The Car2go car-sharing company with thousands of users in Toronto will  stop operations in Toronto next Thursday, May 31. Car2go issued a bitter statement blaming City Council for the “overly restrictive” free-floating car-sharing pilot program passed in April. It’s about parking, of course. Car2go wanted users to be able to park shared vehicles in residential areas. “City councillors have passed a heavily restricted pilot that ultimately weakens mobility options for Torontonians,” said Car2go North America CEO Paul DeLong in the news release.

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New City requirements for the Car2go pilot will forbid the use of almost 10,000 parking spaces where users usually pick up or leave Car2go vehicles. DeLong also complains that Toronto will require a parking permit of $1,499.02 per vehicle. In an open letter he said calling the move a disappointment would be “a huge understatement.” The company is owned by Daimler North American Corporation. Some may wonder whether the decision is in fact a power play on the part of Car2go.

The federal government has blocked the sale of the Canadian construction mammoth Aecon Group Inc. to Chinese interests because of reported concerns about national security. Aecon it seems, is just too big and intertwined with Canada’s security, that Ottawa fears the Beijing government might use it to make Canada conform to Chinese interests. It is a fear often heard about dealing with China as expressed by retired diplomats. The contentious deal was between Aecon and China’s CCCC International Holding Ltd., also known as CCCI. It would have been worth $1.5 billion. “As is always the case, we listened to the advice of our national security agencies throughout the multi-step national security review process under the Investment Canada Act,” Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said in a statement Wednesday. “Based on their findings, in order to protect national security, we ordered CCCI not to implement the proposed investment.” Wednesday night there was foreboding expressed by the Chinese embassy and more is expected from the Communist capital in the hours and days to come. CBC

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Line 1: Train service continues to bypass Summerhill Station due to a Toronto Fire Investigation outside the station at Summerhill and Yonge. #TTC

— TTC Service Alerts (@TTCnotices) May 24, 2018