The South Bayview Bulldog

Ryan Gullen

Maizie Sly

George Corones

The Sheepdogs played Massey Hall Friday night. This interesting Canadian group is discussed here by Lindsay Dunn in an interview with Ryan Gullen. Then, the sweet face of Maisie Sly, 6, from Swindon in southwest England. She is star of The Silent Child and will participate in Oscar events in Hollywood this weekend. Perhaps most amazing of all is 99-year-old George Corones, an Australian who it seems has set a swimming record. Nice going George. Then finally, Jack Black comes out of the past as part of a crazy television program called Drunk History.

No winning ticket was sold for the $23 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Mar. 9 will grow to approximately $32 million.

Man surveys Streetsville fire from balcony /Danny Longo@DannyLongo640

A huge fire Friday night destroyed a nearly-completed building designed as a retirement home in Streetsville. The fire was at Tannery St. and Joymar Drive next door to an existing retirement structure which was occupied by residents. There were no injuries and although buses were on standby, no evacuation was required. The fire was preceded by one or more explosions shortly after 7 p.m. The flames formed a frightening spectacle visible from Square One Shopping Centre. At the height of the blaze, fire officials complained of winds whipping the fire to even greater intensity. The picture above tweeted by Danny Longo, reveals a man standing on his apartment balcony to view the fire.

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Lena Feng cuts hair of John Libby

Urban Hens not for South Bayview

Barrel House hiring

Creation Care 2018

Bravo Academy

Mabel’s Fables

Meridian on Mt. Pleasant

Upper left, it is eight years since Lena Feng took over the barber shop business at 909 Millwood Rd at Sutherland. Her friendly manner and careful attention to detail will tell you a lot about her success. Here she is with customer John Libby of Leaside, owner of John A. Libby Fine Art at 463 King St. E. Centre top, Urban Hens TO begins  March 2 (today) but not in South Bayview wards. This project was greatly promoted by award-winning hen hobbyists Andrew and Matthew Patel whose mom and dad live on Southlea Ave. City Council has limited the pilot to four wards. They are Ward 5 Etobicoke-Lakeshore, Ward 13 Parkdale-High Park, Ward 21 St. Paul’s and Ward 32 Beaches East York. Below that, the Amsterdam Barrel House on Laird Drive is hiring. Check it out. At top right, St. Cuthbert’s Creation Care 2018 is underway. Down below, the Bravo Academy activities can be sampled at Leaside Presbyterian Church and Mabel’s Fables at 662 Mt. Pleasant will have a visit from author Sylv Chiang and video game artist Connie Choi, creators of Tournament Troubles, a new book in the Cross Ups series. It features the ups and down of middle grade life among friends who love gaming. Tweens and teens take notice.  Lastly, Woot Woot as the Davisville Meridian branch at 690 Mt. Pleasant Rd. wins the firm’s Q4 2017 Award of Distinction. Shirley Breen‏ @shirleybee123

The baffling case of Eugene Kim, a 38-year-old husband and father from the Bayview Ave. and Royal Orchard Blvd. area of York Region, deepened overnight with word that a car belonging to Mr. Kim has been found in Algonquin Park and that it contained human remains. OPP located the car Thursday about 3:30 p.m. after getting a call about an abandoned vehicle in Laurier Township, about three kilometres northeast of South River. It was found in a wooded area on private property, down a trail leading into the woods. No identification of the remains has been made. The case began on Monday, October 2, 2017, when Kim did not return home as he usually did. Instead, his family received a series of texts from his phone saying he would be there soon. That did not happen. Then a few days later, word that he had been seen in Algonquin Park, a place he was fond of, sometime after that. Reports at the time that Kim was seen with someone when he entered the park are now gone from reports, apparently discounted.

Car found in Algonquin Park

The Hospital for Sick Children is proposing a 22-storey “Patient Support Centre” building on the Elizabeth St. site of the 1983 eight-story Elizabeth McMaster Building. HSC would also follow that with another tower to the complex at a future date. It is all called Project Horizon. Urban Toronto 

To replace Elizabeth McMaster Building

22 storey tower retains bridge to HSC on University Ave.

Cornmaster

Pictures from 2011

Red hots

Jennifer Valliere, the president-elect of the Leaside Rotary Club, is getting good response to her post at Leaside Community Friday morning seeking new ideas for the September Rotary Corn Roast in Trace Manes Park. The event will mark its 25th anniversary in 2018. Two well-received ideas among the many posts are a dog show and photo booth of some type. Photo booths come on wheels these days.

PC leadership candidates left to right: Tanya Granic Allen, Christine Elliott, Doug Ford, Caroline Mulroney, (David Donnelly/CBC)

Voting has begun online Friday to elect the next leader of the Ontario PC Party and it will continue until the winner is announced March 10. Party members have until 11.59 p.m. Monday to register to vote. The contest pits Caroline Mulroney, Christine Elliott, Tanya Granic Allen and Doug Ford in a contest for a job that could well make one of them Premier of Ontario. The general election is June 7.

Dofasco steel in Hamilton

Alcoa Aluminum

The markets in Toronto and New York were reeling Thursday after President Trump told supporters he will definitely impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to the US. Steel will carry a 25 percent levy and aluminum, ten percent. It is a potential swift kick at Canada’s economy and the market baskets of millions here. At its worst, such tariffs will stagger the economy. But it isn’t clear. Canada is the largest seller of steel and aluminum to the US but there is little flak directed at this country in American rhetoric. Much of the noise is aimed at China, which is a relatively small exporter of steel to the US. The plan is still unknown. In Toronto the TSX was down 48.73 and the Dow plunged 420.22.

A woman became distraught at City Hall Thursday over her apparent failure to obtain timely repair of a window which had been damaged by a bullet in her City-owned housing residence. The dramatic screaming and profane language stopped a news briefing by Premier Wynne and Mayor Tory but may not be as sinister as portrayed in some places tonight. Hedley will take an indefinite hiatus following multiple complaints about sex and one complaint that the lead singer committed rape, a charge he vigorously denies. Below that, the BBC explores the scene of the kidnapping of 110 girls by the iniquitous Boko Haram in Nigeria. Lastly, the Brexit agony seems to be approaching a turning point as British PM May prepares a statement on the UK will actually depart the EU.

See just how different a Putin election campaign is from say, that of Justin Trudeau. Thursday the Russian oligarch bragged in an election speech about a new array of nuclear weapons that are invincible (his word). Mr Putin made the claims as he laid out his key policies for a fourth term (which he seems certain to win) in 17 days’ time. The weapons he boasted of included a cruise missile that he said could “reach anywhere in the world”. He said of the West: “They need to take account of a new reality and understand … [this]… is not a bluff.” It seems that Russians generally love this stuff.  What a swell guy is that Putin.