The South Bayview Bulldog

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 

Scene aired May 6

Television viewers have seen the Garden Court Apartments as transformed for the sinister world of The Handmaid’s Tale. The scene above aired May 6 on Bravo. The filming took pace last October as seen below

October

Berney Crescent

A man in his 20s is dead after he fell to the ground from an electrical tower early Sunday in Toronto, paramedics say. It occurred before dawn and was discovered by someone who found the body. There is speculation he may have been shocked or electrocuted on the tower. Paramedics said they were called to the scene near the intersection of Ronald and Castlefield Avenues at 6:15 a.m.

Sure, regular gas is running $1.39 a litre at Merton and Mt. Pleasant but when the Ford dealership sat at 55 (now 78) Pleasant Blvd. just east of Yonge St. in 1928 the cost of a tank was pennies. The pump was at the curb, an outrageously dangerous but common practice in those days. The Yonge subway was still unimagined by anyone. The approach to the lane leading to Rosehill Ave. can be seen in the foreground. Yonge St. was still under construction. The building on the west side of Yonge to the right is now replaced. There was open land to the south of it and anyone could stroll into St. Michael’s Cemetery. It still sits there hidden from the bustle of Yonge and unknown to many.

As we welcome Mother’s Day, a touching story about a daughter who, with help from her brother, scraped up enough money for her prom dress and then made sure she visited her dad at his humble job before the dance. Also here, a nice vist by City News to the Toronto Flower Market Saturday outside CAMH on Queen St. E.

Mainstreet Research is saying that a sample of 2,534 Ontario voters found that 42.3 per cent were likely to vote for the PC Party on June 7, while 28.4 per cent say they will vote NDP. The Liberals won 22.1 per cent. About 5.4 per cent said that they will vote for the Green Party.

WHO AM I TALKING TO?

Google’s display of artificial intelligence this week revealed an impressive — and scary — accomplishment. By way of a program it calls Duplex, it showed how a smartphone app could replicate a human voice, down to the “umms” and “ahhs” in pauses. The bot sounded more real than the person it was calling. While the idea is a practical one — saving us the hassle of making phone calls to set up reservations at restaurants and hair salons — it also foretells sinister criminal misuse. Google tricked the person on the other side of the phone call into thinking they were talking to a fellow human being. Fittingly, while the Internet giant was hailed for the tech breakthrough, it also was criticized for pulling a form of high-tech “con” since at no point did Google in its recorded demo let the human on the other end know they were talking to a robot. “Hi dad, could you please send money?”

NO WINNING LOTTO MAX

No winning ticket was sold for the $60 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. However, four of the 15 Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each were won — three going to ticket holders in Ontario and one in Quebec. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on May 18 will remain at approximately $60 million, but there will be 29 Maxmillion prizes up for grabs.

Lawn Summer Nights in July/Bulldog

Happy Mother;s Day

Broadway and Sutherland/MLS

Upper left, these ladies are here to remind young fun-loving and would-be lawn bowlers that July is Lawn Summer Nights month at the Leaside Lawn Bowling Club. There are four nights as usual and teams dress in costumes both stylish and slightly mad in the cause of fighting cystic fibrosis. Upper right, Happy Mother’s Day and by the way they have fun balloons to mark the occasion at Longo’s. Still up top, that bungalow on Broadway (at Sutherland) was listed at $1,299,000 until it sold the other day. The selling price is withheld by the MLS process until closing.

2018 Greater Toronto Boys A High School Ball Hockey Champions

We love this photo (above) of the 2018 Greater Toronto Boys A High School Ball Hockey Champions. Hey, it’s full of Leaside kids.

Brentcliffe and Eglinton

$4,800 in East York

This is Community Police Day over at Jimmy Simpson Park, Queen St. East at McGee Street. At the right are the garages in the apartment at Eglinton and Brentcliffe. Application has been made to turn them into basement apartments. End of parking. And finally, the 1980 Mazda RX7 Silver Anniversary Edition drifter has a reported 75k on the counter. It’s offered for $4,800 in East York.

Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz has issued a statement saying that washroom in its coffee shops are open to all, not just paying customers. This policy — unknown in Canada by the way — appears to have been behind the arrest of two black men in a Chicago Starbucks recently after they refused to leave the premises after asking to use the washroom. They had not bought anything and were refused. When they did not leave, staff called the police. Many people were dumbfounded their newfound awareness of this rule. In the US, many have said it represents sinister racism. Whites use the bathroom but blacks can’t. In Canada, the parade of people in and out of Starbucks washrooms is universal. Mail carriers, traffic enforcement officers, delivery persons, bus drivers, dog walkers and even some people who occasionally plug in their computers for free.