The South Bayview Bulldog

What’s a serious bite?

Signs will be required

Dangerous dog muzzle

Beginning next March, Toronto dogs that bite a human or another pet will be designated a “dangerous dog” according to the language of a bylaw passed Wednesday. Such animals will be required to wear a muzzle. Warning signs (it’s not clear where) will be required and a dangerous dog will be banned from Toronto’s off-leash parks. Apparently any attack would have to be “severe” to have a dog declared but opponents are concerned just what that means.. Also, Georgio Mammoliti is worried the bylaw could put small dogs like Chihuahuas in the same category as other breeds. He says some owners could become repeat offenders.

Costco will open a business centre in Canada in March, with an official ground breaking ceremony taking place in Toronto on Wednesday. Experts warn that the store opening could disrupt the business of traditional office and restaurant supply distributors. Costco Business Centre may draw on corner store operators and consumers – the wholesaler sells bulk grocery items, office furniture and supplies, professional cooking equipment and cleaning products. There is also some concern of overlap between the company’s two businesses, as 80 percent of the business centre’s merchandise consists of items not sold in its warehouses. Costco’s business centres open at 7 am (three hours before warehouse stores generally open in Canada) and shuts at 6pm throughout the week and 4 pm on Saturday. The move targets small restaurants, business and convenience store owners who buy from Costco because they aren’t big enough to do business with a company like Unilever, and for office supply companies whose business models are based on higher margins.

COLLISION
Eglinton Ave E and Mt Pleasant Rd, report of a pedestrian struck, no info on injuries #2213147 ^cb

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) December 14, 2016

COLLISION
Martin Cres and Davisville Ave, report of 2 cars, minor injuries #2212815 ^cb

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) December 14, 2016

COLLISION
NB DVP at the viaduct, two lanes closed, 2 cars, unknown extent of injuries, one driver going to hospital #2213290 ^cb

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) December 14, 2016

HAZARD
Laird and Eglinton, lights flashing red in all directions, please treat as a 4 way stop #2213617 ^cb

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) December 14, 2016

The Christmas window of Bonnie Byford Real Estate catches the spirit of the season quite nicely. It includes the well-known doll’s house that has graced the Byford window at 1536 Bayview Ave. at the holidays for decades. There is video of the animated skaters so take a look.

Health Canada says it has had ten reported cases of blades on Cuisinart food processors breaking off and leaving bits of metal in the food. It’s caused when bolts shear off from metal fatigue. Some users have had their mouths cut. The maker, Conair, has recalled 300,000 of the machines identified by these model numbers: CFP-11, DFP-7, DFP-11, DFP-14, DLC-5, DLC-7, DLC-8, DLC-10, DLC-XP, DLC-2007, DLC-2009, DLC-2011, DLC-2014, EV-7, EV-10, EV-11, and MP-14.

Units like this

Bolts break over time

To paraphrase Hemingway, ask not to whom the toll will be billed, it’s on your tab buddy. City Council voted 32-9 Tuesday night in favour of asking getting provincial approval for the charge to use the DVP and Gardiner Expressway. Council also voted for a tax on hotels and short-term accommodations. It was an all-day discussion both civil and rancorous.  The prospective $2 toll is estimated to raise $166 million annually while one set at $3.90 would raise $272-million and a $5.20 toll would bring in $336-million, over and above the costs of maintaining the two expressways. Would they dare?

The Canadian actor, songwriter, game and talk show host was a native of Kirkland Lake. Wikipedia.

Two firefighter colleagues, a man and a woman, lay on their stomachs and grabbed the legs of a stranded doe on a frozen reservoir about 40 km from Newark, New Jersey. Then 15 of their partners on the shore hauled the two (and the deer) across the ice with cables attached to their safety belts. The rescue took about ten minutes. The deer was tired and sat for a few moments after its rescue. Then it got up and bounded into the woods.

At noon hour last Sunday some guy was making it his job to steal from an elderly man as he worshiped at St. Michael’s Cathedral. His picture is below and police have a warrant charging him with theft of a briefcase which apparently contained valuables and cash under $5,000. The victim was 79. The perpetrator is described as 20 to 30 years old, 5’10”, 150 lbs., light complexion, a shaved head with noticeable patches of dry skin or alopecia. At the time of the offence, he was wearing a red winter parka with a fur-lined hood, light-coloured high-cuffed pants, and dark shoes with light-coloured soles.

Know him? Call Toronto police at (416) 808 5100

Beamed from 1899 tower

New LED lights

A $3-million upgrade to lighting at Niagara Falls has produced a light show that is more entertaining, less costly and longer lasting than anything previously employed. Some 1,400 LED lights are newly in place, the first upgrade in lighting the falls in 20 years. Mixed together, the separate red, green, blue and white LED units can illuminate the waterfalls against the night sky in endless combinations that range from subtle hues to deeply saturated colours. The lights are installed on the upper level of the 1899 building known as “Illumination Tower.” A worthy job for a venerable part of Niagara history.