The South Bayview Bulldog

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.

Section of Martin Grove Road closed in Rexdale after dump truck hits rail bridgehttps://t.co/ejmAsWsYDc pic.twitter.com/dIz8deraa2

— CP24 (@CP24) January 15, 2018

This occurred early Monday and was snapped by Cam Woolley of CP24. It is another of those “not again” moments which make one ask why dump truck makers and/or vehicle safety authorities do not install/require signals that might stop any sober driver from doing this.

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Two boys are reported to have fallen through the ice of the Humber River in Etienne Brule Park near Jane and Bloor Sts. about suppertime Sunday. They were both able to get out and had been taken home before the TPS Marine Unit, and other personnel, arrived. It is a reminder of the dangers that lurk for children as the winter weather fluctuates. The pattern will continue in the coming week with cold weather Monday through Thursday. It will then warm up again with a high of 5C predicted for Saturday. Police are warning of a chilly and perhaps icy morning drive Monday. Go carefully.

Winston at home in Cornwall, England

Trying to set fire to Scarborough gas pump

BLM in Quebec

Ford Ranger for 2019

Kim, Chrystia

Dog doing stuff at Millwood and Southvale

In 2002, Winston walked away from his home in Cornwall, England. Now, 15 years later, he is reunited with his friend Janet Barnes. His was found some 35 miles away from home in bad shape. Microchip ID confirmed that this is indeed Winston and with loving care, he is doing well. Upper right, this gentleman is out in the cold Saturday trying to set fire to a gas pump in at Eglinton Ave. E. and Ionview Rd. It didn’t work but truly evidence again that it takes all kinds. Below that, it seems that black refugees (along with others) are in need of help as they try to get into Canada across the Quebec border. So this lady from Toronto’s Black Lives Matters group was down there to help. Apparently the welcome wasn’t too warm. Centre left, Ford Motor is bringing back the mid-size Ranger pickup to Canada and US. No word on just where it has been. Below, the world is waiting for a meeting Tuesday in which Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland will perhaps something say about Kim Jung un. Does she find him as odious as the rest of us? Twenty countries will meet in Vancouver to try to figure what to do about this dangerous person. Finally, some folks on Leaside Community Facebook are upset tonight because this dog was going Number Two near Millwood Rd. and Southvale Ave. and his owner, allegedly, didn’t pick it up.