The South Bayview Bulldog

York Regional Police have issued a brief release to say to that Randa Elyassir, 32, has been found safe and reunited with her family.  Police must ask if Randa taken from community centre lot

Indian Rd. home /CBC

Close up of collapse

A large west-end home seems destined for demolition tonight after one side of the structure collapsed Sunday during renovations. It is not clear just what work was being done. The tricky business of deepening the basement sometimes causes such failures. The High Park home is on Indian Road between Bloor St and Boustead Ave. Toronto Fire was called around 1 p.m.

Toronto Hydro says it has restored power to all 7,000 customers who went off grid about 6 a.m. Sunday. This appears to have occurred in stages beginning later in the afternoon. It also tweets that a final 470 customers in the “Edmund/Macpherson/PoplarPlains/Avenue area” were the last to be re-joined. Is this where the tree was? Just asking.

Thank you for restoring my power. I live in mid town and was affected. Can you clarify, please, the initial cause of the outage?

— dana margolis (@danamargolis) September 3, 2017

Cackling couple

Walking among the chessmen

Jenny Jupiter

Plinko for Epilelpsy research

Dad gets pic of son with pirate on stilts

Mobile photo booth

Buskerfest in aid of Epilepsy Toronto is on until 7.30 p.m. Monday at Woodbine Park on Queen Street. The fastest route from South Bayview is right down Coxwell. There was ample parking ($20) Sunday. It is a lot of fun with performers from all over the world. Most are delighted for a toonie or two in the hat. Be generous. The food is no doubt edible but all of it may not be known to certain eaters. Conventional fare is plentiful including free samples of Starbucks Teavana steep.

The extended and scattered nature of the outages in Toronto on Sunday have challenged the imagination about what is going on. Hydro late today began to say on Twitter that a fallen tree has caused this all-day blackout. They don’t say where. What’s the secret? Josh Matlow (Ward 22) seems to be taking heat just for being visible on Twitter. Many other Councillors are not yet heard from.Twitter  Updated story here

Collision: Somers Ave/ Donlands Ave.. 4 vehs involved. Occupants of 1 veh have fled. SB Donlands closed. #GO1594529 ^adc

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) September 3, 2017

Joseph Howarth/Toronto Hydro

Hydro has tweeted the bad news that unexpected “equipment failure” continues to leave as many as 5,000 customers in the dark even though the utility had said it expected to have things fixed by 1 p.m. The curious outages are in “pockets” according to Hydro, testing no doubt the understanding of laymen and maybe some engineers too. The power failures hit about 6 a.m in an area defined as Ossington, St Clair, Mt. Pleasant and College. Police warned that traffic signals were out as well. There was also an outage in West Hill where some customers seem to feel forgotten as far as updates are concerned.  One tweet from Dalek Deegue complained about the lack of information at the Toronto Hydro outage map. This is a place which purports to show outages but frequently shows nothing. See tweets here

Nothing showing

https://twitter.com/12upSport/status/904130030086889474

Blue Jays right-hander Marcus Stroman took a hard drive smack on the elbow Saturday but fortunately was spared a broken bone in his pitching arm. He was down and struggled to regain his feet after being hit by a drive from Mark Trumbo of the Orioles  Blue Jays officials say the injury is an elbow contusion and X-rays are negative. Jays won 7-2

Police have intensified their search for 9-year-old Maëlys de Araujo in the French alps after they concluded that neither of two men being held had anything to do with the girl’s disappearance. Maëlys vanished at a wedding last weekend in Pont-de-Beauvoisin. Donald Trump was in Houston Saturday meeting the overwhelmed residents of the flood-stricken City. In Budapest, a sporting contest to swim the Danube between the ancient municipalities of Buda and Pest is under way. And in Toronto, a man has set a Guinness Record for a bee beard. This crowd-pleasing spectacle took place in Yonge Dundas Square this week.

Toronto police will not be issuing tickets for most street parking bylaws on Labour Day Monday, a practice they began earlier this year on long weekends. Exempted areas include parking meters, rush-hour routes and signs for bylaws normally enforced Monday to Friday. Other parking offences csuch as no stopping, no standing and parking in front of a fire hydrant will be enforced.

After a wait, woman’s number is called

Abbas Kolia calls out numbers for free backpacks

Premier says hello

Scooby Doo attraction

Pigeons displaced by festival

Political presence

Young and old

Hundreds of families won free backpacks and other prizes like calculators and lunch boxes on Saturday at the sixth annual Thorncliffe Park Tenants Association and the Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office event Saturday at the East York Town Centre parking lot. The gifts were handed out by ticket number to residents during the day by tenants association president Abbas Kolias. Corporate donors were important contributors to the success of the gathering. There was a full political presence — Premier Wynne, MP Rob Oliphant and Ward 26 Councillor Jon Burnside were all there. Pigeons which normally reside in the west end of the large EYTC parking lot found themselves relegated to the mall roof. Occasionally they made a swooping protest flyover of the event tents.