Leo’s place updated and up we go at Sharron and Cameron

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Where Leo barbered for so long
Sharron and Cameron 2015
Sharron and Cameron now

The building where the late Leo Cornacchia cut hair for so many years at 1693-1695 Bayview Ave. is getting an update to attract new tenants. Leo was the always entertaining and modest owner of this property. He is much missed by all his friends. At the corner of Sharron Drive and Cameron Crescent, the little brick home once very grown-over is getting a bump-up suitable to its excellent location. Let’s keep an eye on it.

Advertisers leave YouTube because of repugnant videos

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An advertising boycott of YouTube is broadening in a sign that big companies doubt Google’s ability to prevent marketing campaigns from appearing alongside repugnant videos, according to Associated Press. PepsiCo, Wal-Mart Stores and Starbucks on Friday confirmed to AP that they have also suspended their advertising on YouTube after the Wall Street Journal found Google’s automated programs placed their brands on five videos containing racist content. AT&T, Verizon, Volkswagen and several other companies pulled ads earlier this week. The YouTube phenomenon has become both an essential service to middle class users while at the time hosting material, both video and comments, of the most offensive nature. Advertisers are said to be concerned even after Google apologized for tainting brands and outlined steps to ensure ads don’t appear alongside unsavoury videos. If Google can’t lure back advertisers, it could result in a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Most analysts, though, doubt the ad boycott will seriously hurt Google’s corporate parent, Alphabet Inc — with AP.

UK terror attacker’s parents under guard for their safety

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The parents of Khalid Masood, the London terror attacker, are being protected by police from possible revenge attack at a remote location in Wales. This video is an excellent summary with many details. Then, scary video from Florida of a window washer hanging from only his safety belt after his scaffold collapsed. Below that, the compelling account from the person to whom Elizabeth Wettlaufer confessed her terrible crimes in Ontario nursing homes. Finally, the Jackie Kennedy character slugging the Teddy Kennedy character for seemingly trying to pitch woo (or worse) to the late president’s wife. Oh dear.

Mom wants to know what prompted crystal meth homework

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The teacher who did it is gone from class at the Peel Board of Education, but one parent wants to know why he did it. It’s the case of the drama teacher who gave a boy instructions to go home and prepare a dramatization of how to inject crystal meth. The directions were explicit with all the ingredients described. The board is calling it a “personnel matter.” No doubt. CBC  Previous 

Can you believe this?

 

People leaving Dundas Sq. Cineplex sprayed after “fight”

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A group of people were pepper-sprayed outside the Cineplex Theatre at Yonge-Dundas Square Friday night after what is being called a fight. The details are limited. The CBC says the attack occurred as people were leaving the theatre. Police said both those effected by the spray and many who were not fled the scene to escape the attack. Shortly before 10 p.m. a caller told police that 30 to 40 people had been pepper sprayed on the northeast corner of the square outside the theatre. The assailant used a “fairly large canister” of the illegal spray, PC David Hopkinson told The Star newspaper. In April 2016, people were sprayed with noxious mist outside theatres in Scarborough and Mississauga in connection with a protest against a Tamil film,. The Yonge-Dndas Cineplex is playing two Indian movies but there is no suggestion that there is a connection with the spray attack.

 

Excellent series for Minor Bantam A East a credit to Leaside

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The GTHL Minor Bantam A East Conference championship has been won by the Don Mills Mustangs in a 3-2 thriller against the Leaside Flames. The series required six points to win and was played out to a fourth game Friday night at the Etobicoke Canlan 4 complex on Martingrove Road. Mustang forward Damien McDonald had two goals and Rhys Mroueh scored the game winner on a setup by Chris Prangikos. Fans and parents agreed it was a shame that somebody had to lose the season at all. Bulldog reader Jane Domenico was saying this week that a number of the 15-and-under members of both teams are students at Bessborough Public School. The quality of the play by these two teams is a win for all of Leaside.

Mustangs Minor Bantam A East Champions

Teen sustains critical wound in east end high school fight

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City News says a teen was taken to hospital in critical condition after a fight among high school students in the east end on Friday. It happened around 4:30 p.m. on Danforth Avenue, west of Coxwell. The injured person went to Michael Garron Hospital with what is said to be life-threatening arm wound.