Total nailbiter as Maple Leafs squeak by Hurricanes 5-4

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Uptown tree alight, wayback playback and kissy kissy Liz

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Uptown BIA tree
Bamboo Bay Shop Local
Mrkt at All-Canadian Self Storage
Carols at LUC December 10
Grainger’s Flowers in 1953
Duck at Avenue Bistro
Original’s Fish and Chips
Liz Trinnear in love

Welcome back. That’s the Uptown BIA Christmas Tree all alight Friday at upper left. It was the seventh year the tree has been lighted at St. Clement’s Parkette, Yonge St. and St. Clement Ave. Then, across the top you see worthy events both Saturday and in the days ahead. Take a look. Centre left, historian Liz McFarland‏ @EAMcFarland posted a fine wayback playback of the Davis building at Yonge and Davisville (now Starbucks) when it was Grainger’s Flowers in 1953. Note the concrete median in the centre of Yonge as pedestrians wait to cross. To the right, South Bayview food with duck from Avenue Bistro (top) and fish and chips from Original’s (below). Finally, kissy kissy as Liz Trinnear of Etalk is profiled by Nikki Gill in the recurring Your Davisville feature on Twitter by postcity.com

Moose meanders Markham, survives close miss on highway

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Moose lopes through parking lot/CP24 Twitter
Over the fence/CTV Twitter
Runs by home/Rguo‏ @Rguo19

A moose which has been meandering through Markham during Friday is said by police to be resting in a ravine late in the afternoon. The moose was first seen in Buttonville Airport but has since moved on. Authorities are hoping to figure out how to tranquillize the beast and take it to a safer place. As the video above shows, the great animal had a very narrow miss crossing a highway. Moose on Twitter

CBC ACCOUNT

Eric Cole, wildlife care manager at the Toronto Zoo, says it will be crucial to capture the animal before dark or it will become even harder to track. “You have immobilize it. You’re talking about an animal that’s 1,400 lbs — it’s sheer power and it’s not used to human contact. You can’t throw nets on it, so it needs to be tranquilized,” he told CBC Toronto. Cole explained the moose would have travelled from quite a bit farther north, perhaps near Peterborough or even Algonquin Park. “It’s very unusual for it to come this far south,” he said. “He’s come quite a bit out of his natural habitat.”

Black Friday sensation at Canadian Tire sells out same day

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The Instant Pot programmable pressure cooker has sold out at Canadian Tire in Leaside in what appears to be a few hours based on posts to the Facebook group Leaside Community. Writers there are dreamy-eyed about this cooking appliance as essentially worry free, unlike a conventional pressure cooker. It is a Canadian company as well according to the CT website.

Cody Winter Fair Dec. 9 and snaps of busy friends among us

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Cody Winter Fair Dec. 9
DPS kids learning about sugar
Santa’s Streetcar in the Beach /Andrea Freeman Twitter
Rites of Passage at Woodgreen marks ten years /East York Mirror Twitter

Prasanna Bukka at the Maurice Cody Parent Site has kindly written to remind us of the Cody Winter Fair Saturday, December 9 from 10 until 3 at the school. Old favorites like the Home Depot Build It Room and Aunt Edna’s Shopping Emporium will be there again this year. Upper right we see Davisville Junior Public School pupils at a show-and-tell about sugar. Everything in balance as we learn how it affects the body and brain. Centre right, best use of a streetcar ever as Motorman Chris Perrin (left) and his pals plan Santa’s Streetcar gift collection set for Saturday, November 25 in the Beach. Read about it here in the East York Chronicle. Bottom right, the happy faces of the Rites of Passage gang working to empower African Youth at @WoodgreenDotOrg as they mark ten years of this selfless labour. Thank you people.

New lights can analyse video of traffic pileups and adjust

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Smart signal installed Friday/CTV Twitter

Toronto traffic-light crews are installing new signals which sense and adjust to the flow of vehicles. The work began Friday at Yonge St. and Yonge Boulevard where Mayor Tory was present early in the day.  The job will take a few weeks to finish and see the lights installed at 22 intersections for a pilot period. As reported by CTV, the new lights can sense real-time traffic data through the use of video-analysis. They can also communicate and automatically synchronize with other smart signals in their vicinity. The City is testing two different technologies as part of its pilot project. Smart signals manufactured under the name InSync will be installed at 10 intersections on Yonge between Yonge Boulevard and Castlefield Avenue while smart signals manufactured under the name SCATS will be used at 12 intersections on Sheppard Ave. between Neilson Rd. and Meadowvale Rd.

Here is your bulletin board for (Black) Friday, November 24

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It’s as plain as black and white. There are three events here that are worth doing Friday. Below are some easy Black Friday cooking ideas from Lisa Barton of Today’s Menu.

Leef Luxury Consignment’s Really Big Sale now til Monday

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Clutch me close//Prada blush clutch now in new arrivals
Miu Miu leather and crystal sneakers
Jimmy Choo espadrille wedge

Toronto-based online luxury consignment business Leef Luxury is celebrating its first year in business. Leef Luxury is a new advertiser in The Bulldog and it has much to celebrate. “We built this business on the idea of sustainable style” says Roula Panagiotopoulos founder of Leef Luxury.  In today’s world of consumption it’s a good feeling that the item you purchased didn’t contribute to waste. “And we’ve taken a different approach to getting pieces, Roula professes.” The anniversary is being marked with Leef’s Really Big Sale.  It began Thursday, November 22 and is on until Cyber Monday, November 27. Whether you’re in the market to  purchase or thinking of consigning some of your luxury accessories, contact Leef Luxury.   

Should cops be banished when kids say they fear police?

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Robin Pilkey
Helpful or intimidating?
Miriam Imran

The question above puts a point on the decision by the Toronto District School Board to end the School Resource Officer program (SRO). In the aftermath, TDSB chair Robin Pilkey is saying that some students felt that they were being watched “that they were being intimidated, that they were being targeted in their schools.” A student, Mariam Imran on the other hand offers this: “I thought they make you feel safer. Anything goes wrong you can go to her and she’ll help you out. I don’t like that they removed them.” These sentiments are echoing around the City following the end of SRO. The vote was 18 to 3 to end the program, a hearty endorsement of Ms. Pilkey’s position. But many don’t get it. The mayor is said to wonder why adjustments could not be made in the program for those who felt uncomfortable. And the elusory nature of the complaint from a small group (10 to 12 percent) of students seems to reveal the TDSB as an upside-down place. If there is palpable intimidation it should be discernible. But no such complaint is present. CBC

Last house on Belsize gets 4-truck poured cement basement

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Boom concrete pump
Trucks on Belsize
And Bayview
Beside lane to Millwood

They poured the concrete basement of 433 Belsize Thursday. It’s the last house on the street before Bayview Ave. It took four cement mixers to fill the forms of the little home. The trucks were lined up along Belize and around the corner into Bayview. Or as the song Cement Mixer goes:

First you get some gravel
Pour it in the vout
To mix a mess o’ mortar
You add cement and water
See the mellow-roony come out
Slurp, slurp, slurp

Fire in bungalow garage on Windmill Road, Bennington Hts

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Frank Alberts/Leaside Community
Garage aftermath on Windmill Rd./Bulldog photo
Windmills Rd./Bulldog photo

Fire which burned undetected for a while has gutted a bungalow garage on the Bennington Heights cul-de-sac of Windmill Rd. No one was injured. Seen above left is a shot taken by Frank Alberts and posted to Leaside Community from Moore Ave. showing smoke seeping out of the garage.

Trudeau mobbed by crowd of 600 at Bridlewood Mall

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The prime minister was mobbed by members of the Liberal party attending “community visit” by Mr. Trudeau and Liberal candidate Jean Yip at Bridlewood Mal. There is a Dec. 11 byelection in Scarborough-Agincourt to fill the seat left vacant after MP Arnold Chan died in September. When Trudeau arrived at Bridlewood mall around 5 p.m., hundreds of people started reaching for the prime minister’s hand as he was led into a crowd of people to head for the food court. Less than two minutes later, his security detail started guiding the prime minister back towards the mall’s entrance as he continued shaking hands with those around him. The occurrence has led to talk Thursday about safety planning.