The South Bayview Bulldog

The hotly-contested playoff series between the Leaside Flames and the Don Mills Mustangs for Minor Bantam A supremacy in the GTHL East Conference is now tied following the 2-1 victory by Leaside Thursday night at Don Mills Civitan Arena. It is a points series with the first team getting six crowned the champs. There have been three games so far with the Mustangs jumping out to a 3-1 lead in points on a tie and a 3-1 win (which Leaside notes included a gimme into an empty net). Thursday, Callum Thomson scored both goals for Leaside.  Assists went to Ethan Angus and Ben Popper on the first goal and to Ethan Angus on the second (and winning) goal. Max Dizy played goal for Leaside. Don Mills tied the game early in the third when McDonald scored assisted by Mrouegh. Zach Hughes tended goal for Don Mills. The next game is Sunday starting at 4.25 at St. Micheal’s College School Arena, 1515 Bathurst St.

Looks like 33 floors

Through broken window

Toronto Fire rescue workers stuck for three hours outside downtown high rise building https://t.co/x88BPS1J8F pic.twitter.com/w66ciibcnX

— CTV Toronto (@CTVToronto) March 16, 2017

Window washers have been rescued from near Bay and Adelaide Sts. when their platform stopped functioning. Firefighters smashed a window opposite the men and brought them safely inside after a three hour wait.

People may read between the lines as police say two men have been taken to hospital with bullet wounds at a Burlington chiropractic clinic. Cops say they are not looking for a suspect and there is no threat to public safety. The two are being treated at Hamilton General Hospital.

New jewellery tenant

Barrie Taxi on hospital run

Rumour says new nail business

One-lane wonder back to Rumsey

The preparations for excavation at the site of the Leaside LRT Station has created a true one-lane wonder on Eglinton both ways to well beyond the Sunnybrook Plaza on the corner. This day saw the single line of traffic blocking cars with the green signal on Rumsey Road more than half a kilometre away. At the plaza, business is still underway despite the difficulty getting in. A new jewellery store is opening and rumour around the plaza says the corner store (former Mac’s) will be taken by a manicurist.  Thursday saw a visit from a Barrie Taxi driver, putting in time while a patient from his City was treated at the world-class Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. The return fare for this passenger in need of care was $300.

Drone owners who fly them for fun face new restrictions on where and when they can send their remote-controlled devices under rules announced Thursday by Transportation Minister Marc Garneau. The rules are effective immediately and  mean recreational users will face a fine of up to $3,000 if drones weighing more than 250 grams are caught flying:

• Higher than 90 metres.
• Within 75 metres of buildings, vehicles, vessels, animals or people.
• More than 500 metres away from you.
• At night, in clouds or somewhere you can’t see it.
• Within nine kilometres of somewhere aircraft take off or land, or a forest fire.
• Without your name, address and phone number marked on the drone itself.
• Over forest fires, emergency response scenes or controlled airspace.

Some of those rules existed only as guidelines before the announcement, Garneau said, with no penalties for breaking them.

Bus hit “jersey barrier”

Windshield gone

Driver “rode” windshield

The driver of a Prevost model highway bus that rolled over on Highway 401 was ejected from the vehicle with such force it caused him to slide along the pavement on the windshield, according to police. The bus struck a divider known as a jersey barrier (named in New Jersey but also known as an Ontario Tall Wall) which separates lanes of traffic at approaches. In this case the empty bus was heading onto the westbound 401 near Avenue Road but didn’t quite make it into the full collector lane.

Have we finally figured out that we shouldn’t trust Russia? The excellent NBC story on yesterday’s revelation of Moscow’s dirty dealings in the Yahoo hack of 2014 is chilling. To the right, a look at Beauty and the Beast, an old fairy tale which some find charming and others suggest is about old men controlling young women. Lower right is a story of a couple of enterprising guys who created the “Rothy” — it’s a casual shoe for women that is sweeping the market. Finally, the misery of a Quebec winter as it has been known to happen when traffic gets piled up on a road with no exits. Many sat for 12 or 13 hours in their cars.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke from a Broadway stage Wednesday to an audience of the Canadian musical Come From Away with much of the audience made up of Newfoundland politicians and family. The play recounts the hospitality extended to stranded travelers on 9-11 when aircraft were directed to land at Gander airport. Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump was also at the performance on Wednesday night, alongside Nikki Haley, the U.S. representative to the United Nations. When Trump arrived, she spoke with several Canadian and Newfoundland and Labrador politicians, including MP Judy Foote. The mayors of Gander and Appleton, N.L., both greeted Trump. The men inspired characters in Come From Away.

AMANDA TODD ACCUSED GETS 243 DAYS IN PRISON

Aydin Coban, a 38-year-old Dutch man, has been sentenced to 10 years and 243 days in prison for online fraud and blackmail in relation to the abuse of 34 young women and men. The sentence, handed down by a judge in the Netherlands, is the maximum that prosecutors were seeking. Coban also faces charges in relation to the cyberbullying of B.C. teenager Amanda Todd. In October 2012, Todd, who was 15 at the time, committed suicide after posting a video on YouTube saying she had been blackmailed by someone online.

Toronto Police are inviting people participate in the online #fraudchat discussion on Twitter. It starts at 8 p.m. March is Fraud Prevention Month for Canadians to Recognize, Reject and Report Fraud. Reduce fraud by increasing fraud awareness. Members of the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre will answer questions regarding employment scams. Members of the public can follow Toronto Police Service Financial Crimes (@TPSFCU), Detective Gail Regan (@ReganFCU), Detective Constable Diane Kelly (@DKellyFCU) and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (@Canantifraud), on Twitter. To follow #fraudchat, members of the public simply need to log on to Twitter from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. EST and follow the #Fraudchat hashtag. An application such as Tweetdeck, which allows users to separately view tweets containing this hashtag, is also helpful in following the chat.

Gary Lawrence Miles

Life-long broadcaster

FORMER CEO OF ROGERS RADIO

Gary Lawrence Miles, the former CEO of Rogers Radio, has died at the age 78. The obituary at the website of the Humphrey Funeral Home notes that his wife, Taanta Gupta, was at his side as were his sons Gary Lee, Galen and Vikram. They had all arrived in Toronto from Hong Kong, Winnipeg and Washington, D.C. a few days before Mr. Miles died. The obit goes on to say that the former radio announcer and broadcast executive wanted friends to remember him with a party. “Yes, a party (his words). It definitely will NOT be a Celebration of his Life. He didn’t like that phrase. But now that he’s gone, we can say anything we like. To that end, please come to the Queen’s Park Ballroom at the Park Hyatt on Avenue Road, Toronto on Saturday, March 18, 2017, 3 to 6 p.m. and ask for the Miles-Gupta Party. You’ll be very welcome.”

GREW ROGERS RADIO TO 52 STATIONS

The family thanked Dr. Bernie Gosevitz for his “tireless efforts” in ensuring that Gary’s last days received the kind of attention and care to which he had become accustomed since his marriage to (Taanta) (Not just her words, Gary’s too!)”.  Gary Miles was born in Winnipeg and was a radio announcer there. He went on to become the general manager of stations in two markets, president of the Radio Bureau, vice-president of Selkirk Radio and president of Rogers Radio from 1994 to 2008, growing the company’s division from two to 52 stations. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to The Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research C/O Toronto General and Toronto Western Hospital Foundation.