The South Bayview Bulldog

There is one winning ticket for the $23.6 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw, and it was purchased somewhere in Ontario. The location has not been announced.

Toronto fire personnel extinguished a two-alarm fire in a shed on Glen Cedar Road south of Eglinton Ave. W. and Allen Rd Saturday. No injuries are reported.

Toronto painter Amanda PL

Charcoal ice cream at Little Damage

NYC Mayor fried

Ivanka sitting pretty at G20

“Fiat” seen on Dupont street

Ya-Hoo

Here we go, starting with Toronto painter Amanda PL who says “phooey” more or less to the new prohibition on painting like someone else. It’s a recent invention called cultural appropriation. Amanda says she guesses a few people might have been influenced by Picasso. Do you think? Below that, charcoal-flavoured ice cream is now available at a place called Little Damage in San Francisco. Nuff said. To the right, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is being seared in this composite for going to riot-torn downtown Hamburg to address a left-wing rally hours after an NYPD policewoman was assassinated by a bullet through the window of her vehicle. Lower left, Ivanka Trump briefly got to sit in for her father at the G20 meeting in Hamburg and seems to have enthralled seat-mate Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund. To the right of that, a rather beat-up looking “hybrid” car with a Fiat badge seen on a Dupont St car lot. And finally, Ya Hoo from the Calgary Stampede, 105 years old this week.

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Christopher Langenzarde CBC/Twitter

Christopher Langenzarde CBC/Twitter

The new footbridge stretching across Queen St. West between The Bay and the CF Eaton Centre has been fitted into place overnight Saturday. The eye-catching structure will open later this year. Queen is closed between Yonge and Bay Sts. for the weekend.

Track work has caused a break in the Yonge subway service between Lawrence Ave and Bloor Street but those stations are open and trains southbound and northbound will reverse from these points. The work goes on all weekend with buses running between the two stations.

A Vancouver police officer is seen and heard shouting at a woman who left her children, six and three-and-a-half, in a car while she grocery shopped for about 20 minutes this week. The BC ministry of children is now involved in the case which prompted a number of 911 calls and a full response by police, fire and medical personnel.  “You don’t seem to understand the danger you put your children in,” the officer says. “The windows were up, it’s hot out. Your children could have died.” It is a reminder again to parents to think of their children and also that many others are concerned about them as well, and will call 911.

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The BBC has spun off some semi-psychiatric insights about Donald Trump and Vladmir Putin as they met face-to-face, man-to-man for the first time in Germany where they are attending the G20. The meeting followed Trump’s speech Thursday about defending Western civilization. Some gave him good marks. Interesting stuff about who got the upper handshake. Friday, a seeming meeting of minds about cleaning up ISIS for good and keeping out of each other’s way in the middle east.

New CIBC at 1820 Bayview

Instabuggy

Fiat food delivery

Andy Elder meeting Bomber

The new CIBC will open Monday July 10 at 1820 Bayview Ave north of Roehampton (parking in the rear) and the manager, Elaine Dandy, wants to see you. (Yes, her dad’s name was Jim). The new branch also marks the end of a CIBC (and before that Commerce bank) in Sunnybrook Plaza. The Commerce opened in Sunnyrook in 1951. Meanwhile the Instabuggy Fiat was seen in the parking lot of Summerhill Market, one of the specialized grocers that the firm likes to use. Instabuggy is the now three-year-old invention of Thornhill father of three Julian Gleizer. Finally, Andy Elder and the Bald Eagle at Trae Zammit’s cigar promotion at Smokin’ Cigar at 1540 Bayview Ave. Andy, specialty meat shop owner and caterer, was grilling some goodies when eagle keeper and birdman Dan Franklin invited Elder to say hello. The bird is named Bomber..

York Regional Police report the death of a boy, 6, after his bicycle hit a moving van operated by Two Men and a Truck on a residential street in Richmond Hill. It happened at Taylor Mills Drive South and Newkirk Road around noon. Police are asking any witnesses and anyone with dashcam footage of the incident to come forward.

Deputy Mayor Pam McConnell

Deputy Mayor Pam McConnell (Ward 28) has died at the age of 71 Friday. Mayor Tory spoke at City Council: “It is with a heavy heart that I extend deepest condolences on behalf of Toronto City Council to Pam’s husband Jim, their daughters Heather Ann and Madelyn, grandchildren and all members of her family. Pam was a wonderful advocate for Toronto’s most vulnerable residents. She spent much of her career advocating for social justice, education and literacy and poverty reduction. I respected the empathy, passion and common sense she brought to her role. She will be missed immensely but her work has ensured that this city is a stronger and fairer place.”

SCHOOL TRUSTEE FIRST

Deputy Mayor McConnell was a school teacher before becoming a school trustee in 1982. In 1994, she became a City councillor and spent many hours working with residents and groups to build healthy communities for all Torontonians. The present term marked her seventh at Council. She served as Deputy Mayor, South and was selected by Mayor Tory in 2015 as the champion of the City’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. She also served as a member of the Government Management Committee, the Affordable Housing Committee, and the Toronto and East York Community Council as well as several other boards, committees and Business Improvement Areas.

Jennifer Smith awarding medals at 2015 March Madness

Jennifer Smith, president of the Leaside Wildcats Association, has been nominated as an Urban Hero by the Mirror newspaper group. To vote  March Madness: She presides over girls hockey marathon