The South Bayview Bulldog

No winning ticket was sold for the $10 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket sold in Ontario. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Apr. 11 will be approximately $14 million.

Bryan Thomas

Terraview Blvd and parking lots

No motive yet

Bryan Thomas, 32, is the man shot dead in  Scarborough near Highway 401 and Terraview Blvd. Friday. He is from Peterborough. Investigators have not yet said what they believe motivated the shooting. The crime occurred around 8 p.m. .

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No winning ticket was sold for the $15 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Friday, April 13 will grow to approximately $23 million.

Menchies departed

Big Cheese/Swtizerland Cheese @EatSwtizCheese

Davisville squeeze/Tier One Lawn Care @tieronelawncare

Rotary Electronics Day April 21

Menchies has quietly departed the location at 45 Wicksteed in the SmartCentre. A number of landlord notices on the window include one specifying outstanding rent at $30,889. Business isn’t easy. Upper right, the big cheese was at Longo’s on Laird Drive Friday. It is a promotion of Switzerland Cheese @EatSwtizCheese and these fellows seem fascinated. Below that, Tier One Lawn Care @tieronelawncare has been tweeting a complaint about the bus driver who insisted on squeezing between oncoming traffic and a parked truck on Davisville near Bayview. Listen, this in Toronto and buses are more important than life itself. Further down, many April events including the St. Cuthbert’s Spring Fair, the Blue Radish 50s night, Jazz Vespers at Northlea United (we dig it) and the East York Barbershoppers Annual Auction and Sale.

Former lawn bowling club

New benches at 196 Manor

Mona Piper Playground schematic

Josh Matlow has sent his latest newsletter to Ward 22 constituents. Among many topics dealt with Mr. Matlow reveals the names of two new parks on Manor Road. The space previously owned by the Glebe Manor Bowling Club will be named Manor Community Green.  It is located at 196 Manor Rd. just east of Mt. Pleasant Rd. The other, not yet finished, is a children’s space at 250 Manor Rd. (at Forman Ave) beside Manor Road United Church. The park will be named Cudmore Creek Park & Mona Piper Playground.  An online vote on names offered by the parks department in consultation with the Councillor led to the decisions. There was a groundswell of support for naming the playground after the late crossing guard Mona Piper. Cudmore Creek is a lost waterway which ran from somewhere near Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton Ave. through lands which now include Leaside to the Don River. Details here

Allegedly took rock/TPS

Work of Yoko Ono

Love yourself /TPS

Toronto police have tweeted pictures of an elderly woman who they allege stole a rock inscribed by Yoko Ono from the Gardiner Museum at 11 Queen’s Park  on March 12 at about 5:30 p.m.  The rock had been on display as part of an art exhibit by Ono, widow of John Lennon. It’s worth an estimated $17,500 US. The exhibit is an interactive one. Patrons can freely come, pick up the rocks and use them for meditation and reflection before returning them. The woman was wearing a black coat, red scarf, black hat and carrying a black bag.

A condo vendor has ripped up hundreds of signed deals complete with hefty down payments because, it seems, it can make more money that way.  The Cosmos project by Liberty Development in Vaughan was pre-sold two years ago. Global News and City News are running stories Friday about couples who invested their life savings to get a foot in the housing market.They will now have to start over. But the deposits, which will be returned, won’t go nearly as far in the 2018 market. The hapless would-be owners were told the their deals were being scrapped because “the vendor had not secured satisfactory financing.”  They read this as a decision related to how much money can now be made if the still-unbuilt condos are sold all over again. City News revealed that the “vendor,” a numbered company, has the same address as Liberty Development, 8-1 Steelcase Rd., Markham.

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• Man in 30s dead in shooting at Victoria Park and Terraview

Options presented to City Design Committee

Urban Toronto has published details of plans for a high-rise mixed-use residential development at 545 Lake Shore Boulevard West. It is the 1927 heritage Crosse & Blackwell Building. For many years the elegant art deco building has been a media centre and television studio.

A poll showing more men than women supporting the PC Party in Ontario should surprise no one. It was ever thus. Ekos Research found just over 50 per cent of men said they would vote for the Tories “if the election was held tomorrow,” or were leaning towards voting for them. That’s compared with roughly 27 per cent of men who said they would support or were leaning towards supporting the governing Liberals, and almost 16 per cent who said they would choose or were leaning towards choosing the New Democrats. Among the women voters polled, around 35 per cent said they would vote for or were leaning towards the Tories, compared with nearly 32 per cent for the Liberals and about 26 per cent for the NDP.

Toronto will offer a $6 discount on street parking purchased through the Green P app along Eglinton Ave. from Jane St. to Don Mills Rd. The discount effectively implements approximately 2 hours of free parking with promo code. A news release Friday also says the discount on the Green P app will extend 200 metres from Eglinton. In the case of shoppers on Mt. Pleasant Rd., it would to apply to a stretch of the street nearly as far south as Soudan Ave. The local Councillors have been asked to interpret this. See the news release here

Canada’s spaceman David Saint-Jacques

Stamp honours Harlequin Romance artist

Emily Hinchberger writes to her late Dad

David Saint-Jacques is Canada’s newest astronaut. He’s an engineer, physician, astrophysicist, pilot and he speaks five languages. Fairly qualified. Then, Canada has honoured Will Davies, a legendary artist who among many achievements created some 500 paperback covers for Harlequin Romances. A stamp has been issued with his work on it.  Finally, an alert that Emily Hinchberger’s way of remembering her Dad, and how it has changed her life, will melt your heart.

Toronto Police will adopt a dog Friday at 10:30 a.m, at the SPCA Provincial Education and Animal Centre, 16586 Woodbine Avenue in Whitchurch-Stouffville. Jasmine is a year-old Dutch Shepherd-mix. She will begin Toronto Police canine training in the coming months.

Meet our new @TPSK9 Jasmine, she is an approximately one-year-old Dutch Shepherd-mix! @OntarioSPCA@OSPCAPEAC@TorontoPolice pic.twitter.com/n58VkBvrw5

— Caroline de Kloet (@TPSMediaGirl) April 6, 2018