The South Bayview Bulldog

The mother of a newborn baby has admitted to making up a false story that she found the child abandoned in a laneway at a North York plaza. The baby boy was in fact born in a home on Redeberry Parkway where the young mother was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon as seen in the tweeted picture below. A worker at a dry cleaning business with a door facing onto the walkway where the baby was falsely reported to be found previously told CP24 that investigators reviewed surveillance footage but did not see any baby being left in the walkway.

Newborn was never abandoned, police source says as mother transported to hospital https://t.co/RlGIiVUvNN pic.twitter.com/9wkZHyXLH0

— CP24 (@CP24) January 16, 2018

Mayor from 1991 to 1994

There will be a celebration of life for June Rowlands at 2 p.m. Tuesday (January 16) at Rosedale United Church. She was the 60th mayor of Toronto and first woman to hold the office. She was also a long time City Councillor, City budget chief, head the TTC and chair of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Commission. June Rowlands fought for affordable housing and sought to preserve the city’s ravines and historical neighbourhoods.  She died in her sleep on June 21, 2017.  In lieu of flowers, the family is asking people to donate to Wellesley Central Place (part of www.rekaicentre.com) for their recreation and palliative care programs.

Delores O’Riordan

Album cover on Big Bald Lake

SERRA meeting Wednesday

Parents meeting at Maurice Cody

Foxes (not this one) seen on Bessborough Drive

At top, Dolores O’Riordan, lead singer of the Cranberries had divided her time between Ireland and the community of Buckhorn in Kawartha Lakes north of Peterborough. It is reported Tuesday that O’Riordan has died at age 46 in London. South Bayview fans who knew her from the Kawarthas and distant concerts in Toronto, were saddened by the news. The singer spent part of the last decade living in a waterfront home on Big Bald Lake near Buckhorn with her then husband, Duran Duran tour manager Don Burton. Publicist Lindsey Holmes said O’Riordan died suddenly while in the UK capital where she was recording. No cause of death was released. Far right, the South Eglinton Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association is reminding members of a meeting to deal with the elusive solution to the 18 Brownlow matter. It’s at the Best Western Hotel at Mt. Pleasant Rd. and Eglinton Ave. E. on Wednesday, January 17, starting at 6.30 p.m. Lower left, Maurice Cody parents are reminded of the Parent’s Council meeting Tuesday (tonight) at 6:30 p.m. in the Cody Library. Complimentary babysitting is provided and as always it promises to be an informative event. Finally, a post to Leaside Community states briefly that two foxes were seen Monday on Bessborough Drive south of Millwood Rd.

Hoping for the best

Rescued

Capt. Scott Stroup  was ready and able as a panicky mom threw her child from a flaming building near Atlanta. CNN

Two incidents, one tragic and one regrettable, are reprised here by 680 News and the CBC. The horrifying ambush of a girl, 5, by technology and chance outside her school in North York when a car apparently left in gear crept on her and pinned her against another vehicle. She has died.

LEAVE IT ALONE

Then, the act of a another child, a girl merely 11. It fit so compellingly into the narrative that there is hatred everywhere for Muslim Canadians. Whatever the truth of that, this young person must now go back to school where other kids, maybe even some Muslim kids, may not be too kind to her. It is deeply sad that this burden will weigh on a child. There is even a suggestion that the police should not have taken the girl’s story at face value. Please don’t do this. Many seasoned cops and journalists found the story and circumstances questionable well before it was said to be false. But no one ought to speculate publicly about the honesty of a child in the red-hot context of racial bias in which we live. Leave it alone.

Single veh collision, at Broadview Ave & O'Connor Dr. garbage truck hit a light pole, mounted the curb and hit a tree. Driver not injured, pls drive with care. #GO92933 @TPS54Div ^gl

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) January 16, 2018

Signals for pedestrians on west but not east side.

An elderly man has died from injures he received Friday, January 5 about 11:45 a.m. in a left-turn accident at Adelaide St. W at Sheppard St.  The victim, 85, was attempting to cross Adelaide apparently on the east side of the intersection and was hit by an SUV making a left turn off Sheppard. Signals for pedestrians control the west side of the intersection of Adelaide, which is one-way eastbound. The death may be seen as part of an alarming series of fatalities since the year began. There have been 26 deaths on OPP-patrolled roads, an increase of 271 percent over 2017 according to the OPP and a figure that does not include deaths in municipalities. .

26 people have died on provincial roads so far this year. An increase of 271% from 2017.
Save a life. #DriveSafe #OPPStats pic.twitter.com/zjc9E26Gba

— OPP Highway Safety Division (@OPP_HSD) January 15, 2018

Gold winners at Frolics on Ice

Salvation Army Thirft Store is one year

Riverdale United Church, 1986

Wildcats and Rams together

1 Randolph for sale

Elegant fixtures for free

Upper left, three proud gold winners at the Leaside Skating Club’s Frolics on Ice. Nice going ladies. Upper right, the Salvation Army Thrift Store at 60 Overlea Blvd.is inviting shoppers to catch its first anniversary a week Friday on January 26. Below that, we see Riverdale United Church in 1986 (those were the days). No longer a church, this fine old building is owned the WoodGreen Community Service, which is inviting people to take away elegant fixtures like stained glass windows and ornate lights — for free. It’s at 1117 Gerrard St. E., just west of Leslie Street. The first open house is on Wednesday, Jan. 17 from 9 a.m. to noon, the second on Thursday, January 18 from 6 to 8 p.m. and the third on Friday, Jan., 19 from 2 to 5 p.m. Centre left we see the Leaside Junior Wildcats visiting the Ryerson Rams women’s hockey team. And at bottom, your chance to own the poor little bungalow at 1 Randolph Ave. for $1.7 million along with plans and zoning permits for a 3,600 square foot home. Nice co-ordinates at the corner of Hanna Rd. though.

Girl, 6, pinned between two vehicles while being picked up from Downsview school https://t.co/S2fegQqrB6 pic.twitter.com/UV4O3MJwMU

— CP24 (@CP24) January 15, 2018

Police say a girl, 5, has died from her injuries in an accident outside her school in North York Monday. She was being picked up by her father when a Kia vehicle which had been left in gear without a driver began to move, pinning the child between it and another car. She was being picked up from St. Raphael Catholic School on Gade Drive in the area of Keele Street and Wilson Avenue. A police sergeant told CP24 that the girl was about to get into her dad’s car when the KIA advanced and caught her between the two. He said: “The victim was getting into the Mercedes Benz that is parked over there and the Kia was engaged in gear somehow and came on its own without a driver in it and pinned her between the two vehicles.” The danger associated with cars left idling is scarcely noticed by most people. Others however, make it a point never to walk between cars where one or both has the engine running.

A mezzanine floor overlooking the main lobby of the Indonesian Stock Exchange building collapsed on Monday, injuring scores of people, many of them students, under slabs of concrete and other debris. In the freeze frames above, a group of students can be seen being led along the balcony type walkway. It gives way suddenly plunging them to the floor below. The high-rise building, constructed in the late 1990s, is part of a two-tower complex in the heart of the financial district and houses dozens of other offices including the World Bank. It was the target of a car bombing by Islamist militants in September 2000. Police ruled out a bomb as a cause of Monday’s collapse. They said more than 70 people had been injured, but no deaths had been reported. Video

The CBC says the collapse of the huge British construction and services firm Carillion PLC has big implications for Canada where it has an estimated 6,000 employees. Carilion went into liquidation Monday putting thousands of jobs and millions of dollars of government contracts at risk. Among contracts held in Canada is one with CAMH, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. Other Canadian contracts are for the maintenance and support of military housing at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Petawawa, contracts for hospitals in North Battleford, Sault Ste. Marie, the Stanton Territorial Hospital in the NWT, the Royal Ottawa Healthcare Group in Ottawa and more. There is also a major facility maintenance contract with Shell at one of its oilsands operations, along with at an office building in Calgary.