Two new tenants are preparing to open in the lower level of the office and retail building at 1560 Bayview Ave at the corner of Belsize Drive. They are 9 Round 30 Minute Kickbox Fitness and Grillies. Grillies has a location at 2632 Danforth Ave. It appears to be a lunch and dinner restaurant with a broad menu that is heavily meat-based. The breakfast element, if any, is unclear.
There are no more undefeated teams in Pool B at the Tim Hortons Brier after Northern Ontario and Manitoba were defeated in Tuesday’s morning draw. Manitoba skip Reid Carruthers suffered his first loss at the 2018 Canadian men’s curling championship 10-5 to Leaside Curling Club’s John Epping. Epping’s rink used a huge five-point ninth end to move into a tie for first in the pool at 4-1 with Winnipeg’s Carruthers and Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie. TSN
Becky Allen White is posting on Leaside Community about the fate of Ora, a puppy she reports was rescued by Helpaws in St. Lucia. Ora is flying in on WestJet, it is said, if anyone is interested in giving her a home. You can read the post here. Then at the right, the Wildcats March Madness Tourney is this weekend. Never in the history of hockey have more girls carried heavy bags and loved it. Then a photo posted March 3 by Gordon Baird of an Aston Martin Lagonda on Bayview Ave. beside the Bagel House. It is a 1976 fantasy. Note the guy taking a picture of the wheel lol. Then a reminder of the Pizza Pizza freebie which can only be collected until the end of the following business day, if the Raptors score over 100 points and win at any home game, you can redeem your ticket for a free slice of cheese or pepperoni pizza. Whew! Read about a Bayview Ave. complaint here. Lower right, Jillian Walsh has messaged The Bulldog that work on the re-make of the playground at Trace Manes Park is scheduled to begin in August. As we know, this little space was a favorite of her late daughter Georgia. Finally at the bottom, John S. took this picture of the nightly helicopter visits over Mallory Crescent. CTV go home. Others say that a drone would do it more quietly and with better quality. But be careful how high it flies. Probably can’t do a man-in-the-sky live hit from a drone either.
Ontario will enact a law that requires employers with 250 or more employees to reveal a salary rate or range in all ads for a position. It will also prohibit an employer asking about an applicant’s previous salary and prohibit reprisals for any employee who tells another how much he/she is making. The Premier, Ms Wynne, provided this outline at a Women’s Empowerment Summit at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. The general election is in June.
HOME SALES DOWN AND PRICES TOO
The Toronto Real Estate Board says year-over-year sales in February of homes has fallen 35 percent and that prices have declined 12 percent. It reported 5,175 residential transactions through MLS last month. That’s a drop of 34.9 per cent compared to the record 7,955 sales reported in February 2017. The number of new listings entered into TREB’s MLS system in February totalled 10,520, a 7.3 per cent increase compared to the 9,801 new listings entered during the same month last year.
YUM YUM, CRICKET POWDER
No doubt South Bayview is yearning for some nice cricket flour pastries or a cricket protein spicy omelet made from good old Ontario crickets. Yum, yum. Anyway, Loblaws has decided to test the market for insect powder, sometimes (incorrectly) called cricket flour. Maybe they’ll put it with the Tide or Fantastik.
The events on Locke St in Hamilton over the weekend are being portrayed as the surfacing of a sinister “black bloc” creature from another world. Not so much. More like kids smashing things in a juvenile rage against their benighted state. Anarchism is, and always has been, a transparent excuse for violent envy. See a guy eking out a living, wreck his place because it isn’t yours. As events subsequent to G20 riots have shown, the police are well able to hunt down the people who broke store windows behind their black masks Saturday. After smashing a handful of storefront windows with rocks, lighting fireworks and setting off smoke bombs, they fled — some on foot and others by vehicle — from Locke Street South Saturday night, ditching their clothing after the unprecedented attack.
There’s genuine concern about the proliferation of digital techniques that permit almost anyone to create fake videos that look absolutely real. Next to that, some scary stuff that is really fun as Canada wins top prize at the Fatansporto horror film festival in Portugal. Zombies in Quebec. Below that, warm temperatures are causing concern among maple syrup farmers as reported by City News. And finally, have a look at a side of life in China called “get out of town.” Dissidents physically forced go on vacation so they won’t spoil the perfect, perfect opening of the Chinese parliament. Will there be any tough questions from the Opposition? Or will they be out of town?
The South Bayview summary begins in Regina, of all places, where Leaside’s John Epping and his team blew away Nunavut in Monday play at the Tim Hortons Brier. Tomorrow will see a more challenging game as Team Ontario faces Team Manitoba. To the right, say hello to hometown friend Christina Bothwell, owner of the Modalife Studio at 899 Millwood Rd. She has North Toronto’s only Yogalates Power Fusion Classes. 647-349-6080. Lower left, we see Rev. Evan Smith (centre) guest speaker Sunday at Leaside United Church. Rev Smith is minister at Toronto Urban Native Ministry. She serves the Indigenous community with Traditional Spirituality and Christianity. To the right, a couple of reminders. Leaside Presbyterian will have its book sale March 24. But sooner than that March Madness, the largest girls hockey tournament in the world rolls into Leaside Friday. Get ready.
As usual, friends and good fun marked the Laugh Out Loud in Leaside charitable evening on Friday at the William Lea Room. This year the evening benefited Moorelands Community Services, a children’s charity that works in the neighbouring communities of Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park. Moorelands provides low-income kids with programs and leadership opportunities designed to strengthen their confidence, competence and character and to help them build positive connections with peers and caring adults. The evening generated $42,000 for Moorelands good work.
Police have released the picture of a man who they believe is a seventh victim in the serial killings investigation related to Bruce McArthur. They are asking the members of the public to call 416-808-2021 or any police location in Ontario if they recognize the man seen in the photo. At a news conference Monday morning at police headquarters on College St. the lead officer, Detective Sergeant Hank Idsinga, said he would not reveal where police found the photo. Also at the news conference, it was revealed that the remains of a seventh individual have been found in a planter at the Leaside property at 53 Mallory Cres. A news release says that of the seven sets of human remains, three sets have already been identified as belonging to Andrew Kinsman, Soroush Mahmudi and Skandaraj Navaratnam. Work continues to identify more victims. The release says that through several investigative techniques and community contacts, police have attempted to identify the man whose picture is seen at the above link. Link to live source and in due course video replay of the news conference.
Exciting play has been unfolding at the Tim Hortons Brier in Regina where Leaside’s Team Epping, skipped by John Epping, defeated Quebec Sunday. Monday the local team is back on the ice at 3 p.m. against Nunavut. Schedule of play at the Tim Hortons Brier
The Market Gallery in the St. Lawrence Centre at 95 Front St. East has opened an exhibit called the History of Toronto Jazz Clubs Since 1946. It is on now and runs to June 23. The exhibit is curated by jazz historian Ralph Coram and chronicles the life and times of such places at the Colonial Tavern, the Town Tavern, Bourbon Street and George’s Spaghetti House. They helped establish and define Toronto’s identity as a music City. More information is available at here.
