Taylor Swift released her latest single at midnight and by Friday morning nearly five million hits are recorded by YouTube. The more than slightly-piqued pixie of pop unloads on an anonymous someone to mixed reaction. Take a listen.
Paul Hickey and his wife Lisa Barton have been making meals for busy Midtown residents for 15 years. Now they have expanded to a larger store at 852 Millwood Road. It’s right next door to the corner shop now occupied by Avoca Chocolates on the corner of Rumsey. Paul and Lisa have a wide stock of their prepared gourmet meals for pickup or delivery. They specialize in family meals, new family meals and vegetarian meals. Drop in and try the fresh bread and soup. Today’s Menu
John Rieti, writing for the CBC online, reports that some builders and owners are shocked by the move, begun yesterday, to sweep as many as 258 Midtown buildings into the City’s heritage registry. Most of the buildings, as noted in a post by The Bayview Bulldog Thursday, are two-storey storefronts of little distinction by themselves. Many on Bayview Ave. take the move more as an attempt to maintain the low-rise character of these commercial neighbourhoods, such as that of the Mt. Pleasant Village BIA and the Bayview Leaside BIA. CBC Bid to give buildings on South Bayview heritage status
OTHER LOCAL NEWS FROM THE CBC
Work goes on daily to complete the stunning new pedestrian bridge over Queen Street between the CF Eaton Centre and The Bay. Completion is scheduled for September and there is lots to be done. Urban Toronto
A toddler let himself out of a daycare in Keswick Wednesday and ran home without staff knowing what had happened. There is the dickens to pay, you may be sure. Then in London, a teen is convicted and may face jail after killing a young mother last year. And, how about the life of times Mavis Wanczy, Powerball Lottery winner Massachusetts. Also enjoyable, the odd bond which has been formed between this monkey and a chicken. Let the video wheel roll.
Quebec artist Claude Bouchard has sued IKEA Canada and UNICEF for $22 million for allegedly stealing her idea of making plush toys in the mould of children’s drawings, a concept she hit on in the 1970s. She filed the lawsuit Monday in Montreal. In it, Bouchard claims to have invented plush toys that are reproductions of imaginary creatures from kids’ drawings. She says her work can be found in museums and are well-known enough that IKEA should have been aware the idea didn’t belong to the company. Bouchard said she was “stupefied” to notice similar plush toys in a Montreal IKEA store in January 2016, according to Canadian Press.
PROPOSED SAME IDEA TO UNICEF
The artist said she sold her work in a UNICEF boutique between 1994 and 2005 in Montreal. She claims to have presented UNICEF with a plan to sell the toys internationally for the organization’s 50th anniversary but was rebuffed because she didn’t have large-scale production facilities. Bouchard says UNICEF has been collaborating with IKEA since 2014 on a project that sells toys she alleges look like her creations. She claims the plush toys could not have been created without the help of UNICEF, which had privileged access to her concept. Neither IKEA nor UNICEF wanted to comment on the case.
Alexa, order apple sauce. Google, get me garbage bags. It’s how Amazon and Google see the future and it’s why Google has partnered with Walmart. They will prosecute this vision of how groceries and household goods are purchased. Consumers — any number of family members — roaming around within earshot of voice ordering devices, shouting out instruction to buy this and that, whatever the heck is short, or comes to mind.
Joanna Lavoie of the Beach Mirror reports on the precarious state of things at the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club, Canada’s first female-owned boxing gym for women and trans people, where they are asking friends to help out with the rent and other costs. Savoy Howe, Newsgirls founder, has hung on at the location at 388 Carlaw Ave. south of Gerrard St. for eleven years. As a way to help, Savoy will present her own story at the club in September (see poster). Then, if you’re looking for work it seems that T.J. Maxx, the huge US retailer that owns Winners, Marshsalls and Homesense, is hiring in Leaside. And finally, the name of the new eatery at 1581 Bayview is Untold. Please tell us.
We all remember when Jessica Chastain and the film crew of Molly’s Game visited South Bayview over the winter of 2016/2017. Molly’s Game, directed by Aaron Sorkin, was filmed in numerous locations throughout our great city. Many Torontonians are excited to learn that the world premiere of the film will be at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) this year.
TIFF will also feature a special presentation and Canadian Premiere of Downsizing, starring Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig. Matt, Kristen and crew were spotted in Leaside last summer filming some scenes from this film.
DOWNSIZING: Matt Damon headlines a cast that includes Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Laura Dern, Jason Sudeikis, Alec Baldwin, and Neil Patrick Harris in Alexander Payne’s sci-fi social satire about a man who chooses to shrink himself (literally) to simplify his life.
See you on the red carpet!
Domenic Buttiglieiri and his happy band are open and serving up these burgers at Urbun Eats Company at 874 Eglinton East at Laird Drive. Better drop in.
Thursday’s meeting of the Toronto Preservation Board will consider a recommendation from the Chief Planner, Jennifer Keesmaat, to include as many as 258 low-rise commercial buildings on Bayview Ave., Mt. Pleasant Rd, Eglinton Ave and Yonge Street in what is known as the Toronto Heritage Register. This status provides a measure of protection from demolition. The list of frequently anonymous-looking, but occasionally more distinguished buildings, dates from the 1920s and 30s when the streets north of St. Clair Ave. were being developed. On Bayview, the buildings on the list range from the Subway Sandwich shop at 1489 (and others nearby) to a building at 1575 which houses Must Boutique to 1588 Bayview, a former bank building which for many years housed Elegant Garage Sale. The recommendation is the subject of a release by Ward 22 Councillor Josh Matlow who also provides a link to the agenda for Thursday’s board meeting.
The Toronto Star reports Thursday that Hemant Bhagwani, creator of Amaya Express, Indian Street Food and other Indian themed restaurants has sold all his businesses and retired, at least for now, from the local food scene. Bhagwani has opened 34 restaurants since 2002. “I probably sponsored 40 cooks from Dubai and India, so there’s probably a guy who previously worked at an Amaya in most of the Indian restaurants in the City. But I stopped enjoying it, so it’s time to step back,” the paper quotes Bhagwani.
NEW OWNER AT INDIAN STREET FOOD
He assures everyone he is leaving Indian Street Food Co in capable hands. The staff remains on along with the new owner Vahid Hoseyni. “The future for Indian Street Food Co remains bright,” he adds. The Indian Street Food Co restaurant is at 1701 Bayview Ave. between Dolly Jewellers and the Academy of Culinary Arts.
