The South Bayview Bulldog

The part-time members of the Hydro One Board have voted to increase their compensation to $185,000. This revelation comes amid Ontario’s election campaign and a vow by PC Leader Ford to fire the entire board. He said he would appoint a new board and tell it to fire the president Mayo Schmidt, who gets an eye-popping 6.2 million in wages and bonuses. The raises are mentioned in an information circular provided to shareholders ahead of Tuesday’s annual meeting of Hydro One in Toronto, but have not been reported in the media. The PCs say they will picket the meeting. The 13 regular board members each received $160,000 in compensation last year, half of it in cash, half in Hydro One shares. The board chair, David Denison, received $260,000, also split between cash and stocks. The board of Hydro One is also being criticized for padding further the severance pay of Mr. Schmidt. He would receive at least $10.7 million if he is fired in the wake of either government intervention with the company or a government move to replace the board. The Ontario government retains 47 per cent ownership of Hydro One.

Engaged residents

Jennifer Pagliaro of Toronto Star

Elly McIsaac baked for those attending

About 100 ratepayers attended the South Eglinton Ratepayers and Residents Association Annual General Meeting Monday at Greenwood College on Mt. Pleasant Rd. Among the speakers was Jennifer Pagliaro of the Toronto Star City Hall Bureau. She received engaged interest and several questions The meeting coincided with another decision Monday by Executive Committee to flee yet again from a value-for-money comparison between a seven-stop LRT into Scarborough and the current one-stop wonder whose value is currently set at $3.35 billion. A delegation led by Josh Matlow (Ward 22) was present at Committee to ask for such a study but the motion was deferred indefinitely on a motion by  Councillor Michael Thompson (Ward 37) of Scarborough. Pagliaro recalled plans that would have finished a seven-stop LRT as early as 2015. She spoke about the comparative value, as have many people, of a multi-stop LRT for less money than the one-stop plan now on track. “There has never been, and Council has never requested, a value-for-money comparison of the two options,” she said. A study by Metrolinx in 2013  found a subway could not be justified but the report was sent to the  minister at Queen’s Park and it disappeared.  It has never been published. “If you’re looking for an answer about (Mayor) Tory’s motives, I would just encourage you to look at the facts. Sorry to be a little bit vague but that’s part of my job too,” said Pagliaro.  Many believe the Mayor and others are committed to the subway as a function of Liberal voter strategy in the former borough beyond Victoria Park Ave.

Margot Kidder

Played Lois Lane, Clark Kent’s friend

Margot Kidder, the miner’s daughter from Yellowknife who went on to play Lois Lane in the Superman movies, has died at 69 at her home in Montana, her sister Annie has confirmed. Kidder got the acting bug after seeing shows on Broadway. She was determined that she was going to be a star. In life, she conquered a troubled career. “You’ve reached the goal, the thing that you said you wanted … but also, it makes your life incredibly public,” said Annie Kidder, who is based in Toronto. She said her sister found her calling as a mental-health advocate, drawing from her own experience with bipolar disorder, which she spoke about openly at a time when it was highly stigmatized. Margot Kidder was best known for her role opposite Christopher Reeve in the Superman films of the 1970s and 80s. She was as tough as the Lois Lane character she played. She was an activist all her life and much like Lane wasn’t afraid to speak out for what she thought was right. After an infamous breakdown on the streets of Los Angeles in 1996, Margot Kidder credited a homeless man with showing compassion for her and saving her life during her “big, public flipout.” Sister Annie said Margot lived happily before her death “with her dogs” in the US west.

Bypass Burger

Why not?

Amazon Creep

Here’s some scandalous stuff for Monday including a place that feeds you food like the Bypass Burger. Yikes. Meghan Markle will conform to royal etiquette including rules for her lower limbs. And the guy in the Amazon camera is about to open the Amazon lock to deliver an Amazon package to you — the Amazon zombie. Enjoy

Also note the Friends of Toronto Public Cemeteries meeting Monday night. See full South Bayview Bulletin Board.

A Mother’s Day morning incident at the Don Valley Parkway and Eglinton East saw a naked man, said to be distressed, wandering in grass at the corner. It was, as the TPS Operations dispatch said, a visual distraction to motorists. They dealt with the matter.

EXPOSURE:
DVP + Eglinton Av
-On grass next to highway
-Naked man walking
-Appears to be in distress
-Providing visual distraction to motorists#GO861862
^dh

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) May 13, 2018

Leaside Community carries this photo

An area homeowner is appealing on Leaside Community Monday for ways to persuade raccoon babies to find another corner to sleep. The suggestions in a long thread span such things as the scent of Irish Spring, fox urine, a radio tuned to a news station, cayenne pepper and a hose. Two helpful people wrote “So cute.” Leaside Community

Lift on Sherbourne St/City News capture

A pleasing glimpse of Toronto life is seen in City News video as a cop let’s a woman climb aboard for a piggyback Friday across a flooded gutter caused by a watermain break. It was on Sherbourne St. that the police officer noticed the woman wearing flip flops as she dithered about leaping over the water. There is an “awww” from someone as the cop sees his duty. Another pedestrian helps out by retrieving a lost flip-flop.

BOY HURT IN CAR-BIKE ACCIDENT

A young cyclist has been taken taken to hospital Sunday after being struck by a vehicle in Mississauga. Peel Regional Police say the child was on private property when the incident occurred in the area of Goreway Drive and Brandon Gate Drive just before 6 p.m. Police say the child suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries and that the driver remained on the scene. The Peel Major Collision Bureau has been called in to investigate.

• Growing Facebook movement turning the tables on Ontario Liberals

Friends of Toronto Public Cemeteries will meet Monday, May 14 at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, 527 Mt. Pleasant Rd. at Belsize Drive, to continue the struggle to restore Mt. Pleasant Cemetery to public hands. The meeting is set to begin at 7 p.m.

Proposed for 1365 Yonge

Front door appears to be on Rosehill

Yonge and Rosehill

Urban Toronto has published plans from an application to the City seeking rezoning to permit a proposed privately-operated assisted living home at 1365 Yonge Street, south of St. Clair. The plan from Welltower Inc. Canada proposes a 17-storey, 69.5 metre-high Turner Fleischer