The South Bayview Bulldog

The Bank of Nova Scotia branch at Laird Drive and Eglinton Ave. E. was the apparent target of a holdup Monday afternoon. In fact the unofficial account of police calls — TPS Calls — reported such an incident but Toronto Police Operations did not. The branch was sealed off with yellow tape during rush hour. Parents at Northlea school were told to take children straight home at the end of class.

US stocks sold off sharply on Monday, with the Dow industrials falling back below 25,000, as a pullback from record highs deepened and investors grappled with rising bond yields and potentially firming inflation. All three major U.S. indexes fell more than 1 per cent while the Dow and S&P 500 dropped more than 2 per cent. Late in the session, the Dow was down almost 1,600 points. The index then pared some of its losses to just over 900 points. The Dow’s point loss would be its biggest of all time, though in percentage terms, its 5.6 per cent decline wasn’t as big as its worst drop during the financial crisis — Financial Post

NEW HUDSON BAY CHIEF

Helena Foulkes

Helena Foulkes, former executive with the CVS pharmacy in the US, is the CEO for Hudson’s Bay Co. Foulkes. She starts in two weeks. Richard Baker has been acting as HBC’s interim CEO since the departure of Jerry Storch last fall. Baker will continue as governor and executive chairman. “Helena is a transformational leader who will invigorate the business with a new perspective as we position HBC for the future,” Baker said in a statement.

Steve Paikin of the Agenda

Sarah Thomson

Steve Paikin, the host of the long-running TVO public affairs program The Agenda, has been accused by former mayoralty candidate Sarah Thomson of telling her she could appear on his program if she slept with him. The alleged incident occurred in 2010 and, according to Thomson, has been made subsequently in what might be called a jocular or laughing manner. In a statement released by TVO Chief Executive Officer Lisa de Wilde on Monday, the public broadcaster said it became aware of the allegation Saturday when an email from Thomson was sent to Paikin in relation to comments she alleges took place at a lunch. The station said Paikin immediately notified TVO of the email. Thomson referenced the allegation in an online post published on February 2 in which she alleges Paikin asked if he could sleep with her. “My assistant and I met him at Grano’s on Yonge Street, and the three of us ordered our lunch. Not five minutes into the lunch the host asked me if I would sleep with him,” Thomson wrote. Globe and Mail 

Town Hall tonight

Bantam Bulldogs capture medal

Atom A Wildcats Silver Winners

LUC Shrove

St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Shrove

Northlea United Shrove

St. Luke’s Anglican Shrove

Jon Burnside’s Town Hall is at 7 p.m. Monday in the Lea Room at the Leaside Memorial Community Gardens. At the right, the East York Hockey Association is showing off the medal won by its Bantam Bulldog team the at the Select Tournament. The Bulldogs beat the Leaside Flames Red team 2-1 at De La Salle arena in the championship tilt, but by the way, the Flames beat the Bulldogs 2-0 in regular play earlier, so there. Centre left, the Atom A Wildcats are rightly proud of their silver finish at the Aurora Silver Sticks Tourney over the weekend. Good going ladies. And then four Shrove Tuesday reminders from area churches. Would it be possible to hit all four before they wash up? Burp.

It being February and all, such outlooks are to be expected. Let’s remember that there’s no guarantee and hope for the best.

Danforth and Kingston/Mike Nguyen CP24 Twitter

Impaired driving is the allegation as police sort out the crash of a car into a pole at Danforth Ave and Kingston Rd early Monday. The driver is estimated to be in his 50s and was not seriously hurt.

Art Johnson

Edward Cornwallis

Andrew Forde

Angela Merkel and Martin Shulz

Bruce McArthur

Morgan Geyser

Tom Brady

Upper left, a London, Ontario man, Art Johnson, landed in Seoul late Sunday to take up his role as a Zamboni operator at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Hat’s off to you sir. To the right, Edward Cornwallis has been dead since 1776 but they’re still trying to kill him in Halifax. His statue was removed over the weekend by the City he founded because he once put a bounty on certain indigenous persons who were fighting the creation of Halifax. Below that is violinist Andrew Forde. He will perform The Ideas of North at Koerner Hall in Toronto with his band The Ghost Tapes on February 9 as part of Black History Month. At bottom left, Germany remains without an effective government four months after the general election. Angela Merkel can’t get a coalition going with the Social Democrats. And then that pleasant-looking young man in his high school photo from Fenelon Falls Secondary is accused serial killer Bruce McArthur. Equally unsettling, the young life of Morgan Geyser. She has been sentenced to 40 years in a mental institution at the age of 15 for the appalling attack she and a friend committed on a classmate. It was inspired by a fictional Internet bogeyman named Slenderman. Such bunk. Finally, Tom Brady’s Hail Mary attempt to win the Super Bowl failed. The final was 41-33 Eagles.

Caroline Mulroney

Rod Phillips

Peter Van Loan

Party sources are saying that Caroline Mulroney will formally announce her candidacy for leadership of the Ontario PCs Monday. This as Rod Phillips, former Post Media executive and party candidate in the riding of Ajax says he will be supporting Mulroney in the leadership convention set for March 10. Phillips had been discussed as a leadership candidate. Mulroney is the daughter of former prime minister Brian Mulroney.  At 43, she is a lawyer, wife, mother of four, public appointee and charity activist. She serves on the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority to help oversee development of a $4-billion second border span between the two cities. She also co-founded the Shoebox Project in 2011, a non-profit body that collects and distributes gifts to women who are homeless or at risk. Peter Van Loan, Conservative MP for in the Commons for York-Simcoe is close to the family and says it was not Mulroney’s plan to run but supporters have strongly formed up behind her bid. “Wow she is so relatable, she understands me, she gets me, she listens to me, she obviously genuinely cares,” Van Loan said as he described Mulroney’s public appeal. She is also the acclaimed candidate for the riding of York Simcoe in the June Ontario general election.

The Super Bowl kickoff is at 6.30 EST and for those who want to appear acceptable at a TV party we have two videos to put you in the picture. Below that, a professor assays Rob Ford, Caroline Mulroney, Christine Elliott etc. He says Ford may tap into hinterland PC values about such horrors as the provincial debt, Mulroney has the right name and gender while Elliott has the right name inside the party and, of course, the right gender. Yup. Finally, if you like cheating at board games, Hasbro will soon be selling Monopoly for Cheaters. It’s hard to believe but they say you can actually get shackled to the board for some thefts LOL.

Took squirrel

Seen at Eglinton and Rumsey

Maximum $25,000 fine for contant barking

Spotted deer at Chester Zoo

Rare creatures

Philippines spotted deer

Members of the Facebook group Leaside Community have posted pictures of hawks seen on their properties. Left is a bird that was seen plucking a squirrel from the fence and flying off with it. The post has generated dozens of comments including one from a woman who tries to reassure nervous neighbors that hawks rarely make off with prey weighing more than three pounds. To the right, this hawk was snapped near Eglinton Ave. E. and Rumsey Rd. last week. Lower left a yappy guy is announcing that the City of Hamilton has enacted legislation which could fine owners of barking dogs as much as $25,000 for repeated outdoor offenses. Seems high. And finally, three shots of the exquisite Philippines spotted deer born recently at the Chester Zoo in the UK. They are very rare, it is said.

Scoreboard records Oakville tying goal with 1.9 seconds left

Anxious families

All around the Flames net

Lobby of Gardens is busy

Select Invitational play between the Leaside Flames (Red) and Oakville Rangers in the Minor Peewee category offered an exciting snapshot of the tournament Saturday. The 11-year-olds took to the ice at the Dr. Tom Pashby Play Safely Rink shortly after 1 p.m. and battled to a 3-3 tie. The goal that evened it up was scored by Oakville with less than 2 seconds remaining in the game. With 120 teams lined up to play, there’s no such thing as overtime in regular play at the Select. The Memorial Community Gardens is ringing to the sound of not just hockey but of hundreds of family members as well as many concessionaires in the large lobby of the Pashby rink. The tournament concludes Sunday night. Select Tourney silent auction offers hockey stick deck chairs

A Florida nurse, Katherine Lockler, is a viral-video Flkorence Nightengale of sorts after her rant about the flu. Then, further flu distress as doctors say that 80 peercent of the more than 50 kids who have died in the US were not vaccinated. Below that, the compelling report from the CBC National News on the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. And finally, the charming ways of Meghan Markle as she helps a mixed up young man find his way through a presentation of some sort.