The South Bayview Bulldog

Her Excellency and His Worship/DPS students @TinkerClass

Join the Pixies

Weather Schmeather

1973 LBA program / @Nickhockeycards

Oompah!

Bantam Cats win Silver/Wildcats Hockey

Grade Five students from Davisvlle Public School got to meet Governor General Payette and Mayor Tory at City Hall yesterday and they brought a gift for each. The excellent renderings at upper left prompted Her Excellency to confide to the mayor that “I have wonderful hair as you can see.” The Mayor ventured “You seem to have a lot of freckles.” See more at @TinkerClass. At upper right, the Bayview Pixies Want You! The elite band of tireless gardeners and street beauticians needs to grow. Below that, the Bayview Leaside BIA is encouraging people to grab an umbrella and enjoy the warm weather. We agree. Centre left, a Wayback Playback in the form of a Leaside Baseball Association program from 1973. See it @Nickhockeycards. Centre right, get ready for the first ever Toronto Tuba Euphonium Symposium coming Saturday, March 17 to Lawrence Park Community Church. Absolutely love it. Oompah, oompah. Then finally, hats off to the Leaside Bantam Wildcats for their Silver win at the Durham West tournament. Well done ladies.

Large crowd at Lawrence Park Community Church

Chief is taken to his place on late arrival

Chief Mark Saunders was delayed by other business Tuesday night but his arrival at the Ward 25 Safety Meeting was warmly applauded by the large crowd in attendance at Lawrence Park Community Church on Bayview Ave. Saunders rushed in from a warm evening to take a seat and then quickly go to the microphone at the invitation of Councillor Jaye Robinson. In brief remarks and questions, Saunders talked of the need to modernize the Toronto Police Service. He emphasized the need to integrate public information with active policing, efficiencies and the use of technology. The meeting heard Robinson and police officers on these points as well. The meeting heard of the use of photo images taken by door bells to identify persons who seem merely suspicious but using the digital science of face recognition are seen to be criminals. Such an arrest has occurred in 53 Division. Chief Saunders spoke of using personnel more efficiently. But he also said that scheduling is largely out of his hands. It is a matter decided between the police association and the police board. The Chief did not say it but the process seemed subject to the burden of a union vs management mentality.

JAYE ROBINSON

The Ward 25 member said the Safety Meeting was inspired by the many break-ins late last year in York Mills and the harrowing incident of a teen girl who was slashed on Dinnick Crescent in a random attack in October. She also spoke of “white vans” following children although there appears to have been one incident of this which did not turn out to be criminal. Ms Robinson alluded to resistance to modernization from the Toronto Police Association although she did not name that body. She said she did not agree with much of what was said.  Stabbed jogger, 19, gets ride to hospital from Lawrence Park

KFC has temporarily closed hundreds of locations in the UK and Ireland on Monday night after its shops ran out of chicken following delivery problems. The fast food chain switched its delivery contract to German shipping giant DHL, which had promised to “set a new delivery standard” after winning the contract with KFC. On Monday, 575 KFC restaurants were closed. Stores had initially run out of chicken over the weekend. “Due to administrative issues, a number of deliveries have been incomplete or delayed. We are doing our utmost to rectify the situation as soon as possible and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused,” a DHL spokesperson said.

So they did it. Tessa Jane McCormick Virtue, 28, and Scott Patrick Moir, 30, gave their championship ambitions one last thrust and succeeded. They won the gold medal for ice dancing early Tuesday in PyeongChang. The two Central Ontario natives (both born in London) bring credit to themselves and their country. ‘Just say you’re in love already!’ Virtue and Moir capture gold and our hearts in Olympic career finale

Globe and Mail writer Denise Balkissoon summarizes the spotty business of free-floating cars and the issues that worry City Council about them. Globe and Mail 

Mayor attends last Heritage Bonspiel at SGC/City News capture

Sleepy time Cats/Leaside Wildcats

Creation Care 2018

OCAD speaks

Centennial Lions/Rob Oliphant Twitter

Maeve Prestonji/WD Wilson

LSC Meraki Intermediates/Leaside Skating Club

Mayor Tory is seen throwing a rock at the very last Heritage Bonspiel at The Scarboro Golf and Country Club on the weekend. Curlers across the City will be saddened to hear that club directors have voted to sell off the curling building to permit Metrolinx to build an overpass at the busy level crossing outside the club. Still with curling, members of the Leaside Curling Club are looking ahead to their Novice Bonspiel March 24. To the right, sleepy time Cats filled the bus home Sunday after a five-point weekend of play that boosted the club to fourth in the Provincial Women’s Hockey League. Here’s the PWHL playoff schedule which stretches through March. Centre left a reminder of the St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Environment weekend just around the corner.  Then centre right, this is the work of the Ontario College of  Art and Design students at the inter-school competition on Woodbine Beach known as the Winter Stations International Design Competition. Can you hear me now?  Lower left, MP Rob Oliphant laughs it up with members of the Leaside Centennial Lions Club at their third anniversary dinner. Centre right, here’s Maeve Pestonji  of St. Anselm Catholic School as she accepts the Agnes Macphail Public Speaking Award from Lorna Krawchuk with Michael Smith at left. Maeve’s topic was very current, addressing the impact of #MeToo on society. At the bottom, good luck to the Meraki Intermediate team members who are competing this weekend in Skate Canada’s Synchro Championship.

Pumping water out from under CP line on Bayview Extension

Traffic was re-routed away from the Bayview extension northbound into Rosedale by way of Nesbitt Drive Tuesday morning because of flooding. Sue Barrett has posted to Facebook with some pictures. Continuing rain is forecast today and Wednesday. Both directions are now open. Facebook 

The BC government will challenge neighboring Alberta under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) for banning outright the sale of BC wine in Alberta. Many say it is a relative spitball as the battle goes, holding a potential $5 million dollar fine compared to the billions at stake over BC’s opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline to the sea. That project has already been approved by the federal government and holds enormous financial promise for all of Canada, not just Alberta.

JOYS OF GREEN

One issue is the minority nature of the BC government. NDP Premier Horgan holds his office only with the support of the Green Party, which has hardly another purpose in life except to block such pipelines. The standings at present in the BC Legislature are Liberal Party 41, NDP 41, Green Party ​3, Independent 1 and Vacant 1. How long can this last?  War! Alberta tells BC to take its wine, electricity and stick it

Const. Lori Murphy from Peel regional police provides details of a shooting in Brampton where a man in his 30s was killed on Monday afternoon. Read here: https://t.co/eobnW8QICS pic.twitter.com/9ZIUTggr1I

— CityNews Toronto (@CityNewsTO) February 19, 2018

A man in his 30s is dead at or near Vodden St. at Cumberland Dr. in Brampton where he either lived or had family. He was gunned down in a volley of shots Monday afternoon. Relatives were in the street as police arrived. He was later identified as Oliver Augustus Willis, 37. No motive or explanation is available. News release

Chief Saunders was confronted at a Family Day rally by members of the police union Monday with one wife making the point that her husband was at risk every time he went to work. No laughing matter but that’s been true of police work for 200 years. Then, an astonishing three-day riot on a cruise ship all caused by 23 members of a one combative family. Below that, Hedley is be-headed (more or less) for fooling around with audience members. This is exactly what Elvis did. Will they take down his statues? Finally, a place known to all-age (mostly under-age) punk music fans on Bloor West will close because there’s no money to be made unless you sell booze. And they can’t.

Blind corner at garage exit

Isolated

A CBC story says owners of condominiums at 1750 Bayview on the southwest corner with Eglinton are complaining that the construction of the Leaside station has created unsafe conditions there. It is a sentiment that was heard through much of last year not just at the corner of Bayview and Eglinton but all along the construction route. In this instance, Norma Fisher, president of the condo board, cites the way the driveway to the underground garage has been constricted, limiting visibility. The building is largely surrounded by construction walls to separate it from excavation and other work. CBC Condemned to live in Midtown as Crosstown LRT is built

All styles were demonstrated

Hockey helmet works here

Consultations

Hang on mom

Some get to ride

Ready for Meraki

Dad laces up skates

Family Day skating at the Leaside Memorial Community Gardens Monday was well attended. The free ice time was courtesy of Patrick Rocca and Tuft’s Valumart.