The South Bayview Bulldog

Mr. Justice Howard Borenstein has dismissed all charges against former Liberal CEO Pat Sorbara and Sudbury businessman Gerry Lougheed on the grounds that the Crown did not have enough evidence to convict them of bribery under the election act. Central to this interpretation was the defense claim that a bribe must be offered to a person who is a confirmed candidate, not just someone seeking a nomination, for the act to apply. The defence team for former Liberal CEO Pat Sorbara and Sudbury businessman Gerry Lougheed had been arguing for the last year that they should have never have been charged with bribery. They formally asked Borenstein to declare them not guilty two weeks ago and he took it under consideration. Today they are cleared of all charges. The Crown contended that someone is a candidate as soon as he or she announces an intention to run and that the law should protect the electoral process from bribery from the very beginning.

Gerry Lougheed

Pat Sorbara

Mr. Justice Howard Borenstein

The Teen Safety Community Town Hall scheduled for Tuesday evening begins at 7 p.m. at Rosedale United Church at Glen Rd.and Roxborough Dr. Interest in the meeting perked up a lot Monday when the Star mentioned it in passing and so did The Bulldog. Readers were perplexed at finding nothing online at either the North Rosedale Residents site or Rosedale United Church. There are two large street signs however, one on Yonge near Summerhill Ave. and another outside the church.  MeetingTuesday at Rosedale United re teen jam scenes

An Air Canada flight landed at San Francisco airport Sunday after it had been told not to by traffic controllers who were uncertain if the runway was fully clear. The landing was uneventful but it seems the Air Canada crew did not reply to radio transmissions nor to a so-called “red-light gun” alert used to communicate with planes when the radio fails. Air Canada has so far not commented. The flight originated in Montreal. CBC

This is instructive video shown on City News of two men dashing out into Parkside Drive without any real consideration of whether running fast will really get them there. For one of the two, the dash just doesn’t do it. He bounces off the front of a car that wasn’t even on his limited radar.  Luckily he’ll be okay.

The weekend work of shoppers at the Fairview Mall in Sears (and other locations across Canada) is being clucked-clucked about on Twitter while at the same time others say it’s not as bad as the mess made at Target. By the end of January such scenes will be history as Sears passes into memory.  Twitter photos with thanks: @kenkchow  @melliejulie  @Russ_FTW  Noted by Jill Beauty-Vixen.ca

Magic merriment

Carver herself

Bantam Flames

Starbucks on Wicksteed

Whatever

It would have been thrilling

This wonderful pumpkin menace is the work of work of the young niece of local news shooter Tony Smyth (@LateNightCam). Then to the right side we see the Leaside Flames Minor Bantams, champions in their class at the Fall Classic Tournament in Ottawa over the weekend. Well done guys. Below that, left and right, pictures of the remodelled Starbucks at the SmartCentre on Laird Drive snapped and posted to Twitter by Dr. Tony Eskander of Michael Garron Hospital. Then, two pictures that show what we’re going to get at Yonge and Roselawn from the present owner-developer (Main and Main) and what we briefly thought might be there when this was published by the previous owner-developer (Rockford). Bit of a let down.

Mary-Margaret McMahon will not contest next year’s Civic General Election she said Monday. “I believe term limits are healthy for a city, for neighbourhoods, and for politicians,” McMahon said in a release. “I believe being a politician is a public service, not a career.” She was elected to represent Ward 32 (Beaches-East York) at City Council in 2010 and sits on Mayor Tory’s Executive Committee. She is also the Chair of the Parks and Environment Committee. “Leave the party while you are still having fun! Give someone else a chance.”

Mary-Margaret McMahon

BOMB THREAT:
York University
-Glendon Campus
-Threat of bomb received
-York security evacuating bldg #GO1917831
^dh

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) October 23, 2017

Bomb threat at York University #Glendon campus. All cleared, students & staff allowed back inside. @CityNews pic.twitter.com/sBSMgNbIlI

— Tony Fera (@tonyfera1) October 23, 2017

BOMB THREAT:
York University -Glendon Campus
-Police o/s
-Investigating
-Students allowed back in school
^dh

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) October 23, 2017

Unsettling pictures accompany the CBC story about the case of an Italian woman who is afflicted with mysterious bleeding through unbroken skin. The case is highlighted Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).

OHER CBC STORIES

• A year out: Is Mayor John Tory making good on his campaign promises? 
• Brought to life in death: Hundreds honour Gord Downie and story of Chanie Wenjack in Richmond Hill
• TD insider says bank doesn’t want you to know it’s outsourcing work overseas
• FBI agent who helped nab Via Rail plotters worries sleeper soldier in U.S. may have gotten away
• Buyers regain confidence as Toronto real estate market rebounds from summer sales slump video

Tony Smyth @LateNightCam/CBC

A young man was freed from the wreck of his car early Monday after it was wrapped around a utility pole at Avenue Road near Willowbank Blvd. two blocks north of Eglinton Ave. W  This occurred about 4.30 a.m. He is said to have head injuries and his lower body was trapped inside the car.

Grandson loves grandmother

Street corner “booth”

Don’t ask me

Grandma Eileen is 100 now and her grandson, Mike Matthews, a professor of communications, is helping her share a century of wisdom from a portable street corner “booth” in New York. Eileen is an enormous hit, even though she does it all from her sitting room in Seattle. At last, an upside to social media.