The South Bayview Bulldog

1916 Beaux Arts train station tower will meet mammoth glass condominium

The ABC Residents Association (ABCRA) is reporting that Diamond Corp has applied for an Official Plan Amendment and Zoning By-law Amendment applications for 5 Scrivener Court and 8-10 Price Street development which is impact Yonge St in Summerhill. The amendments are said to allow an eight-storey (35 metre) building and a 26-storey (97.3 metre) building with a total of 182 rental dwelling units, 3,085 square metres of non-residential floor area, and 164 vehicle parking spaces within an underground garage. A consultation meeting will be held November 27. The ABCRA takes its name from boundaries west of Yonge St. being Avenue Rd., Bloor St. and the CP tracks

What: Community Consultation on 5 Scrivener Square and 8-10 Price Street.
When: Monday, November 27, 2017, 7pm to 9pm (time to be confirmed)
Where: Stone Church, 45 Davenport Road

This is a part of a forecast by the Weather Network calling for a “Classic Canadian Winter”. We shall see. “As a whole, Canadians should expect a wild ride from start to finish,” Chris Scott, Chief Meteorologist at The Weather Network, says of Winter 2017/18. “It’s safe to say we’ll all be participating in winter this year.” An active storm track and a developing La Niña will help define the season.

The 113th Annual Toronto Santa Claus Parade was everything it should have been Sunday with an estimated 500,000 people bundled up to watch and kids just tickled by the spectacle. It was a joy to behold. As reported by the CBC, the big parade got under way right on time at 12.30 and moved smartly along the 6.5 metres route. Instagram photos. Below, a City News summary from Pam Seatle.

Toronto Argonauts will go to the Grey Cup after wining a thrilling 25-21 Eastern Division final game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The CBC reports that Cody Fajardo’s one-yard TD run with 23 seconds remaining won a wild contest at BMO Stadium.  Toronto returns to the Grey Cup for the first time since winning the 100th championship game in 2012 at Rogers Centre. The Argos will face either the Calgary Stampeders or Edmonton Eskimos on Sunday at Ottawa’s TD Place. And here, courtesy of City News is the equally wild — and we do mean wild — tailgate party.

Jet imperilled

Beaumonde Heights Park

Lanyard Park

Toronto police have named two parks in northwest Toronto where someone has been shooting laser beams at jetliners landing at Pearson airport. The dangerous game can blind pilots and cause disaster. Cops are reported to be on the ground at Lanyard Park and Beaumonde Heights Park Sunday night. The two small green areas are a few blocks apart east of Highway 27 and north of 401. Police issued an alert over TPS Operations Twitter service that laser pointers have been aimed at a number of planes landing and taking off at the airport.

Leaside Jr Wildcats were trailing Durham West Lightning 2-0 after two periods Sunday but they fought back to win the game in overtime 3-2. The win gave the Wildcats a sweep of the weekend following their shut out of London Devilettes Saturday night.Sunday boxscore Kate Stuart earns SO as Jr. Cats beat London Devilettes 2-0

The legislation requiring college teachers to return to the classroom was voted into law at Queen’s Park Sunday after a torturous five-week strike by members of the Ontario Public Services Employees Union (OPSEU). It was only the latest vicious confrontation between teachers and the education system to convulse Ontario in recent years. There seems no appetite or strategy to change the process. The conventional political and court-interpreted view of such strikes is that the students must face the loss of their time, money and learning in order to satisfy the right to strike.

“JEOPARDY NECESSARY TO ACT”

The minister, Deb Matthews, offered this view of the only acceptable role of government. “There is a very high bar. Collective bargaining is protected. The Supreme Court has ruled that you have to have a very, very good rationale, that the academic year [must be] in jeopardy. Had we gone before that final offer vote, this absolutely would have been challenged,” she told reporters at Queen’s Park.

The CBC examination of trolling on Facebook for the purpose of extorting money from gullible users is well worth a look. Then to the right, a City News story tells of the all too believable strategy at the TTC to ignore parking at stations on the new Vaughan subway. That’s so you will take the bus. Uh-huh. Below that, Pope Francis marks World Day for the Poor as only the Vatican can. Then finally, jubilation in Zimbabwe as the poster boy for African mismanagement, Robert Mugabe, is dumped by his own party. But will he retire at age 93? Not likely.

Be very, very good

Sometimes it’s too much

Bulldog sends best wishes

The Santa Claus Parade starts at 12.30 Sunday and many roads will be closed.  The parade begins at Christie Pits Park and runs eastbound along Bloor Street, southbound on Queen’s Park Crescent/ University Avenue and then eastbound on Wellington Street West/Front Street East. The event will wrap up outside the St. Lawrence Market building at around 3 p.m. Here are the closures.

• Bloor Street West, from Ossington Avenue to Christie Street, at 8 a.m.
• Bloor Street West, from Christie Street to Bathurst Street, at 10 a.m.
• Bloor Street West, from Bathurst Street to Bay Street, at 10:45 a.m.
• Avenue Road/Queen’s Park, from Davenport Road to College Street, at 10:45 a.m.
• University Avenue, from College Street to Dundas Street, at 11 a.m.
• University Avenue, from Dundas Street to Front Street, at 11:15 a.m.
• Wellington Street, from University Avenue to Jarvis Street, at 11:30 a.m.
• Front Street, from Bay Street to Jarvis Street, at 11:45 a.m.
• Front Street, from Jarvis Street to Sherbourne Street, at 11 a.m.

John J. Henry writes at Leaside Community Facebook that the Second Cup at 1595 Bayview Ave will close November 28 for reasons that are probably varied. Second Cup fans are lamenting the closure at LC Saturday night but they will know that many of those who still patronize this shop do so merely to avoid the huge traffic at Starbucks. But the quality of coffee and food aside, this Second Cup has not been able to attract an effective franchisee. It has been a mundane place since Hong Ngo, the dynamic Vietnamese businessman departed. He was a congenial host and always ready to talk. Ngo put together an excellent team of full and part-time staff seen in the 2011 picture from Bulldog archives. Some may remember that this location was the first storefront occupied by the Sleuth of Baker Street. It moved to the location across the street at 1600 Bayview, a building still owned by the firm. It is now leased to Leaside Orthodontic. Sleuth is on Millwood Rd at Sutherland.

The May 2011 gang at Second Cup, 1595 Bayview. Top left to right: Hong Ngo, Ally, Gabe and Sadie. Second row from left, Andy, Steve, Sophie and Matt.

Fighting for the shutout in the third

Leaside Junior Wildcats defeated the London Devilettes Saturday night at Leaside arena. Cats goalie Kate Stuart stopped 25 shots to earn the shutout. The home-team goals were scored in the first period. Veterans Quinn Johnston, Kristin Della Rovere and Myah Bowles teamed up to sink the first marker at 2.22 of the first on a power play. Then at 11.53 Erin Arsenault scored on a pretty breakaway against London netminder Erica Fryer. She faced 20 shots. Stuart’s shutout was well-deserved but hockey requires luck. She saw a zinger clang off the net in the second. The win places Leaside 11th in the 20 team Provincial Women’s Hockey League with 16 points for five wins, four losses and six ties. The top three teams in the PWHL are Toronto Aeros, Ottawa Lady Senators and Stoney Creek Sabres with  27, 25 and  23 points respectively. Sunday Leaside travels to Ajax to face the Durham West Lightning at Ajax Community Centre. Game time is 2.30.