The South Bayview Bulldog

Alumni of Leaside High School are remembering music teacher Albert Green on the news that he died January 30 at the age of 89. A service will be held at the Salvation Army Yorkminster Citadel, 1 Lord Seaton Rd on Saturday, February 12 at 11 a.m. Obituary

Pierre Poilievre, the CPC member for Carleton in the Ottawa area, has announced he wishes to be the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Poiliervre has been urged to run previously but has declined. He was born in 1979 in Calgary and adopted at birth by two schoolteachers. His mother was English-speaking and his father was French-speaking. He grew up and went to university in Calgary. Poilievre’s biological maternal grandfather, whom he first met as an adult, was Irish Canadian.

Court reporter Michele Mandel writes in fascinating detail about two 2019 jewellery store robberies in the GTA. Both the violent robberies were preceded by distraction shootings a few blocks away from the primary scenes. Stolen tow trucks were used to smash the front of the jewellery stores as seen in video above.

Friday’s $30 million Lotto Max jackpot was won by a ticket holder somewhere in Ontario. The jackpot for the next draw on Feb. 8 will be an estimated $10 million

Toronto Police will use buses to block the truck convey from invading Queen’s Park, Chief Ramer said Friday. A multi-vehicle invasion of big trucks is heading for the City and organizers of the convoy say they will demonstrate at the Legislature. At a news conference Friday (seen below) Ramer said the police have many tactics in mind that he would not discuss. He conceded that dealing with the convoy and demonstrators may require quick responses. And he said more than once that the public safety of all citizens is the primary goal of the TPS. He also repeated a number of times a vow to deal with lawbreakers with firm “enforcement.” Ramer added that peaceful demonstrators would be free to use the parkland outside the Legislature. The news conference was also attended by Mayor Tory and Staff Superintendent Lauren Pogue.

Milk prices in Toronto have been recorded at nearly 15 percent higher at some stores after an increase of half that size was approved for February 1. Ouch.

Enbridge admits bill for $43,624 is (um) wrong

An Orillia couple was stunned — to say the least — when they got a natural gas bill from Enbridge for more than $43,000. Happily, the gas supplier has admitted its billing system got confused and the bill is quite wrong.

Drivers running out of gas rather than fill up

Call it wishful thinking but apparently many Canadian drivers are simply running out of gasoline rather than buying it at $1.60 a litre, or so says the CAA.

The City will again review traffic in Leaside with attention to pedestrian safety, speeding and what it calls “cut-through traffic”. There seems little doubt that it will be the last of these topics that gets the most attention from residents. A combination of diversionary tactics by drivers trying to avoid LRT construction and long-standing environmental prohibitions (no extension of Redway Rd) will be discussed.

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission (OLG) says that several winning tickets including one on the 649 jackpot were drawn on February 2. That jackpot contains $5 million and was sold in Mississauga. Several Encore tickets worth $100,000 were sold in Toronto, Halton Region and Oxford County.

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Worst weather slips past Toronto to the south/AccuWeather

As seen on the AccuWeather Radar at about 8.15 a.m. Thursday, the weather system which threatened to drop as much as 20 cm of snow on the City is slipping by to the south. There is still a chance of a further few cm this afternoon.

Conservative Party of Canada MPs have voted to remove Erin O’Toole as the party leader. Some 73 of 119 CPC members voted against Mr. O’Toole. The decision has again revealed the national divide between middle-of-the-road conservatives in Eastern Canada and Alberta-first members who are further to the right. It’s a gulf that Stephen Harper bridged and the CPC will need a leader equally popular to regain unity. Issues like gun control and abortion bedevil the CPC.