The South Bayview Bulldog

Mayor Tory has made another appeal to provincial and federal governments to assist with unprecedented numbers of refugees, apparently coming across into Quebec from the US. In recent days, authorities there have said that refugees crossing at unofficial entry points all want to come to Toronto.

PCs PROMISE BEER/WINE IN CORNER STORES

PC Leader Doug Ford said Friday that if elected his government will allow beer and wine to be sold in Ontario corner stores. He said the PCs will such sales in corner stores, box stores and any grocery store. “As we approach the Victoria Day weekend, it is time to acknowledge that Ontario is mature enough for this change and ready to join other jurisdictions in making life a little more convenient,” Ford said in a statement.

HORSES NEGLECTED SAYS OSPCA

Three people are facing animal neglect charges following an investigation into the treatment of horses at a Stouffville farm. The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says an officer went to the farm on May 3 after hearing concerns about the welfare of a herd of horses. The officer is reported to have seen 14 horses and one pony living in unsanitary conditions. Many dead horses were also found in various levels of decomposition. A veterinarian was brought in to examine the horses, which the OSPCA says were found to be thin, with their ribs and hips easily visible.

Ryan Horwood prepares for opening

Smart new patio

Two days ago

Green Canoe Cafe opens Saturday at 10 a.m. at 900 Millwood Rd. with a new patio of nicely-finished carpentry work by Draw, Cut and Connect Inc. The venture of Ryan Horwood and his friend Dave will offer Burgers, Beers, Brunch and All-Day Breakfast. Anticipation high as Green Canoe hangs sign on Millwood

Narrow escape at Steeles Ave. and Gihon Spring Dr.

As reported in the Sun, two young girls narrowly escape death as a young driver blows through a red light at Steeles Ave. and Gihon Spring Dr. between Martin Grove Rd. and Kipling Ave. The black car, driven by a man, 26, barely misses two young girls who are crossing the street.

Here are three videos heralding tomorrow’s royal wedding. The story of Indian women representing the The Myna Mahila Foundation getting ready to attend is very touching. Their Foundation goes door-to-door in the slums of Mumbai bringing sanitary pads to women where the simple form of hygiene is taboo.

Zero time

He can’t help it if he’s a foot taller than her

She argues back

The sizeable number of traffic dead so far this year (22) may be getting to police and City officials. A snippet of video posted by Affan Imran at University Ave. and Front St. shows a police officer berating a woman, apparently for venturing into the intersection without time to cross. It’s not fully clear. The cop is annoyed although the woman seems to be arguing back. All this has the officer under investigation. It is all too predictable as authorities fret about “educating” the public. Vision Zero is the City’s plan adopted from European places to reduce traffic fatalities to zero. Laudable in some ways but also clearly the stuff of over-the-top tongue lashings. Desperate Toronto decrees traffic accidents aren’t accidents

Hey @TorontoPolice @TPSOperations your traffic officer at Front And University needs to calm down and not scare this poor woman trying to cross a street. #TOpoli pic.twitter.com/tmkzs6HI3i

— Affan Imran (@affan_imran) May 15, 2018

As reported Thursday in The South Bayview Bulldog the fireworks display at Leaside High School grounds is set for 9 p.m. Monday and the organizer, David Bryant, has reminded fans that his wife and daughter will pass among the crowd with a donation jug. He has posted pictures of the explosives and a bill showing the total at $3,476.63. A good reason to drop a dollar in the jug.

Price for fireworks

Monday at 9 p.m.

Proposal for 898 Mt. Pleasant Rd. at Eglinton Ave.

About 40 people attended a meeting at the Roehampton Hotel (formerly the Best Western) at 808 Mt. Pleasant Rd. Thursday evening to hear about a proposed 44-year-storey mixed use development on the site. Councillor Josh Matlow (Ward 22) denounced the scale of the project. It has a height many times greater than the present zoning and double the height limits seen in a draft of revised zoning. The neighborhood is no example of moderation in such things. It is a war-zone of high-rise frenzy. Enormous towers already largely built sit at the southeast corners of Redpath and Eglinton and Redpath and Roehampton. Perhaps they are “gifts” from the former Ontario Municipal Board. The Yonge Eglinton Plan is a set of guidelines being formulated by City staff for increased density along the LRT. The Roehampton proposal offends in a number of ways. It is too high, too close to an apartment on Roehampton and is said to cast at least some shadow on Northern Secondary School to the north. The City of Toronto planner David Driedger invited those present to write him if they had questions.at david.driedger@toronto.ca Urban Toronto

Eglinton and Redpath

Redpath and Roehampton

Living on borrowed time?

Dog rescued/Peter Fisher Special to CHEX

Third floor blaze/Today’s Northumberland

Global News video capture

Fire officials and some 50 residents are shocked but grateful that everyone, including the pets, escaped a raging apartment fire at 48 Wellington St in Port Hope during the noon hour Thursday. According to Port Hope Fire Chief C. Ryan Edgar, the blaze broke out in a third-floor unit and quickly spread to the roof of the 24-unit residential complex. Residents of the apartment who have not found refuge with friends or family are being housed temporarily at the Port Hope Parks and Recreation Centre at 62 McCaul St in the Lake Ontario town. The Red Cross and other victim services are on site — with CHEX TV. Peterborough

Today’s Northumberland

The opening of the  new Costco store on Overlea Blvd. cannot be far off. Thursday the public was invited by signage on the street to drive into the new parking lot and pay for a membership to the club. “Avoid the rush,” say the signs. Those who do this should look for a white trailer behind the construction trailer off the main drive into the lot. It’s not especially obvious. But it is there and they will gladly sign you up.

Turn it off?

Soon!

Buy it from us

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is threatening to cut off oil shipments to British Columbia “very quickly” if BC does not stop its unconstitutional blockage of the Kinder Morgan pipeline. Analysts predict that a 60-litre tank of regular will cost $120 in Vancouver in mere hours of such a move. This as the Alberta government passed its new law granting it the power to stop oil flowing to its neighbor. Notley said she would use the law, first introduced last month and passed Wednesday, if construction does not begin on the KM project soon. “Albertans, British Columbians and the rest of Canada should understand that if the path forward for the pipeline through BC is not settled soon, I am ready and prepared to turn off the taps,” Notley declared.

A New York couple found a safe full of cash, jewels and other valuables in the brush of their backyard. Check out why they did not just pocket the goodies.