Man shot at apartment on Wakunda Place near O’Connor

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Shot in neck
5 Wakunda
O’Connor and Wakunda

A man about 30 has been shot and critically wounded at an apartment on Wakunda Place near O’Connor Drive. This occurred about 1.10 Saturday morning. Photojournalist Andrew Collins tweeted that the victim was hit in the neck. Three people are in custody and police are appealing for witnesses.

Craft brewer in U.K. will make beer based on your DNA

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Leslie Wu of Forbes Magazine writes that a brewery in London will brew you a personalized lager based on the taste preferences revealed by your DNA. Call it tailor-made on tap. Wu says that a craft brewer named Meantime Bespoke is asking merely $30,000 to make the beer based on DNA from 23andME’s testing of oral taste receptors through a specific gene (TAS2R38, if you’re counting says she). Meantime Bespoke by the way is owned by SAB Miller. “Hereditary variations in a person’s oral taste receptors (the TAS2R38 gene) will be used to help determine their perception and proclivity to sweet and bitter profiles, primarily based on the ability to detect propylthiouracil — a chemical similar to the bitter compounds found in cabbage, raw broccoli, coffee tonic water and certain dark beers,” says the brewmaster. Uh-huh. .

Beer based on your DNA

100 appointed to and elevated within Order of Canada

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Gov. Gen. David Johnston has issued the latest 100 appointments to the Order of Canada including three companions, 22 officers and 75 members. The investments will occur later in 2017 at ceremonies that will also mark Canada’s 150th birthday. Notable names are Michael Ondaatje, elevated to Companion, Senator Hugh Segal to Officer, Bonnie Brooks, head of the LCBO, Janet Ecker, former Ontario cabinet minister, Michael Ignatieff, David Onley, former lieutenant governor of Ontario and David Steinberg, expatriate comedian. Companions, Officers and Members of the Order of Canada list

Summer home explosion was a suicide pact say police

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The home explosion that disrupted a perfect summer day in Mississauga has been declared a double suicide — a form of pact between a husband and wife who recklessly blew themselves up in a neighborhood inhabited by dozens of neighbors. The blast occurred at a residence on Hickory Drive on June 28, killing 55-year-old Diane Page and her husband, 55-year-old Robert Nadler. Peel Region police chief Jennifer Evans said multiple experts had determined that Page and Nadler intentionally disconnected two natural gas pipes leading to a basement hot water tank in order to bring about the explosion. After the blast, notes complaining of poor health and lack of money were found. The manner of their suicides reveals desperate people who for all their trouble were both delusional and hugely self-involved in the manner of their deaths. See below.

Could “apology notes” be related to cause of Missy home explosion?

Leaside library adult and teen programs January 2017

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Geoff Kettel has sent on the Leaside Public Library schedule for the new year. There are many enjoyable and instructive programs. Click on images.

As many as 50 without power south of Mortimer Ave.

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Full court press as police unleash New Year’s RIDE

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New Year’s Eve will see a full court press by Toronto police of the R.I.D.E. program in 33 Division (eastern North York). But you may not wish to trust them as to location.  As everyone knows, the clever police find places to set up from which there no escape if you are an offender. Pottery Road at the bottom of the hill is a favorite spot.  Be warned and keep the designated driver clean.

Friend of trees, Helen Godfrey published in Globe and Mail

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South Bayview Bulldog reader and Globe and Mail contributor Helen Godfrey

Helen Godfrey is published in the Globe and Mail Friday on a favorite subject — the care and feeding of trees. One of ours too. Local residents and readers of The South Bayview Bulldog know Ms. Godfrey for her many years of advocacy and hard work on behalf of the trees on Bayview Avenue and more recently as a member of that happy band of green thumbs known as the Bayview Pixies.

Action at 1860 as reader sees lighted Whole Foods sign

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BMO Field gets outdoor rink for BNS Centennial Classic

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Boards at BMO Field
But it’s a Scotiabank affair
What we do for outdoor hockey

Police remind us the Alumni Hockey game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings will be held on Saturday, December 31, 2016 and the Centennial Classic game is being played on Sunday, January 1, 2017. All of this is at BMO Field, which is sort of a secret because the event is sponsored by Scotiabank (BNS). In case you didn’t know, or forgot, here’s what it’s all about:  “The Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings will face-off in an outdoor regular-season game at BMO Field in Toronto on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, in the first-ever NHL Centennial Classic..In 2017, the NHL will conduct a year-long Centennial celebration that will feature a variety of ceremonies, recognitions, observances and special events that will highlight 100 years of NHL hockey and also will recognize a number of milestone anniversaries for member Clubs, including the Maple Leafs.” Maple Leafs vs Red Wings

 

Road closures release for New Year’s Eve at City Hall

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Police release on street closures for New Year’s Eve at Nathan Phillips Square

Seems #56 Leaside is the target of a lot of criticism

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