The South Bayview Bulldog

The BC Liberal Party led by Christy Clark has finished one seat shy of a majority. The Grits took 43 seats in the 87 seat Legislature. Clark, 51, told supporters early Wednesday she intends to remain premier despite the show of waning confidence in her government.

Scouts Canada and the Kiwanis Club of East York are inviting young people and families to participate in the Forest Meadow Strategy this weekend, Saturday, May 13, and again on Saturday, May  27 to clear and plant wildflowers in Taylor Creek Park in East York. Plan a day by checking the site of the 132nd Toronto Scouts.

The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP) pointedly withheld its vote on the re-election of Bombardier-family nominee Pierre Beaudoin at Bombardier’s annual meeting last week, echoing similar moves by Quebec and British Columbia funds. The founding family is facing increasing pressure to permit an independent chair to take over the troubled airline and train maker. It’s problems are legion  Some would say scandalous. More than that, the heirs of the founder, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, inventor of the snowmobile, control Bombardier with barely 13 per cent of the equity through a dual-class share structure that confers control and a third of the current board being Mr. Beaudoin, his father, two of his uncles and a cousin. Reuters

The Royal Bank of Canada building at 20 King West will be closed for at least six months to clean up soot and smoke damage caused by the hydro vault fire last week. The bank’s senior vice-president and global head of corporate real estate mailed employees Tuesday that the banking tower will be cleaned from top to bottom before it re-opens for employees and the public.

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Toronto District School Board has blocked Snapchat, Instagram and Netflix after it found that those three sites were burning up more than 20 per cent of the board WiFI capacity. In a statement Tuesday TDSB said these sites are making many necessary operational tasks like attendance, registration and report cards nearly impossible to complete.  The “interim measure” will help alleviate congestion and boost network capacity while minimizing the impact on teaching and learning, it said. The board said it was working on providing a faster network, and said regular WiFi access is expected to resume in September.

Denver and region experienced a nasty hailstorm Monday. Take a look at some of the activity. The first video is from a dash cam which chronicles the destruction of a perfectly good windshield as the driver tries to get home.

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It appears there will be a new barber at the 1691 Bayview Ave. address where the late Leo Cornacchia practiced his craft for so many years. The new name is The Ritz Men’s Hair Cutting. Leo’s place updated.

Here we see rally driver Tomasz Kasperczyk escape a surely fatal spin right off a mountain road during the Rally Islas Canarias, part of the European Rally Championship on Friday. Watch as his car is secured by the flexible road fencing from a disastrous drop. Kasperczyk leapt from the passenger seat of the car, which was left teetering above a sheer drop, and signalled he was uninjured by holding up a sign with ‘OK’ printed on it.

The dash camera of Kevin Taylor caught this young man risking his well being at speeds up 64 k/hr on a Mississauga thoroughfare. Dangerous. As police say “if he hits a pothole or even a bump, he’s in trouble.”

It will seem like the height of self indulgence to many, but a NewMarket man defends his decision to clone his ling-time pet Wolfie for reasons of “having a dog that was in line with me … in unison”  CBC

Coach has bagged competitor Kate Spade in a deal worth $2.4 US billion. Coach will pay $18.50 in cash for each Kate Spade share — an increase of nearly 30% from where the stock was trading prior to rumors of a sale. Coach said it expects the transaction to close by the end of the third quarter. It plans to preserve Kate Spade’s “brand independence” and retain key staff.

In the wake of landslides that wiped out at least two backyards Friday, the Moore Park Residents Association will meet Wednesday for its annual general meeting. Ravines are always high on the Moore Park agenda where two great divides run through the area of fine homes, most built there in the 1920s. Friday’s collapse occurred behind at least two homes on Rose Park Crescent north of St.Clair Ave West and west of Inglewood Drive. This land overlooks David Balfour Park and the Yellow Creek. It seems steeper generally and maybe less stable than properties that line the Moore Park Ravine in Moore Park and Bennington Heights. Many such properties on both ravines are landfill, added by residents. The Toronto Conservation Authority spends millions to keep the ravines stable but the repair cost after such landslide is the  responsibility of homeowners. And although owners rightly find such collapses frightening it is said to be the view of the conservation authority that the foundations of homes along the ravine are stable. The Moore Park AGM begins Wednesday at 7 p.m. at OLPH school on Garfield Ave.