The South Bayview Bulldog

Dr. John Treilhard

A funeral mass for Leaside resident Dr. John Treilhard will be conducted at St. Anselm Catholic Church at Millwood Rd. and Macnaughton Rd. on Thursday, December 8 at 2 p.m. Dr.Treilhard died suddenly at his home near McRae Drive and Randolph Rd. Friday at the age of 65. Dr. Treilhard was a widely accomplished man who pursued careers in both journalism and medicine and whose interests extended across literature, music, history and the arts. His compelling obituary is published on the Humphrey Funeral Home site. It concludes with these words: “But John’s legacy remains a healthy, enduring force in countless other families who benefited from his decades of thorough and compassionate care. And man, did he love his little Boston terrier ‘Fenway'”

This Saturday is the first of the Bayview Leaside BIA’s holiday horse-drawn carriage rides with Santa. Sounds like a must for the kids. The rides are on December 10 and 17 between noon and 4 p.m. Pick up and drop off is at Bayview Avenue and Millwood Rd.

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The small home (inset) which was at the end of the unique two lane cul-de-sac known as Orchard Green has been knocked down and new, larger residence fitting of the prime location is going up. All of this in Bennington Heights.

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New glass front door

Renovated sanctuary

Stephen Hewitt writes to tell of a big opening weekend at Manor Road United Church, 240 Manor, as renovations are completed. Everyone, as always, is welcome at Saturday’s entertaining Pancake Breakfast from 9.30 to 11 a.m. Bring the camera for a picture of Santa meeting the kids. This is a lovely time to chat with friends too. Saturday night there will be a Christmas concert and carolling (see poster) and on Sunday, December 11, 2016, worship and open house.

Jon Burnside (Ward 26) has been appointed to City Executive Committee at the pleasure of Mayor Tory. Writing in the Star, Jennifer Pagliaro says “Burnside is also getting the nod to sit on the committee for licensing and standards, which is undergoing a major overhaul. The former police officer who backed Tory early in the 2014 election campaign in turn earned Tory’s backing and became the only candidate to unseat an incumbent.” Mr. Burnside said he was honoured to be chosen.

COLLISION
Lumley Ave and Moore Ave, report of 2 cars, no info on injuries #2162893 ^cb

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) December 6, 2016

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This early morning workout is at Gears Cycle Repair at 109 Vanderhoof Ave.

Hey #MGCC'rs. Come join @SGollishRuns tomorrow in the Leaside studio for some training! #getupandgo https://t.co/EaTBcZU8tV

— Morning Glory C. C. (@MGridetoronto) December 6, 2016

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Amazon is ready to open its first Amazon Go bricks-and-mortar store in Seattle with a technology that permits shoppers to just take what they want and walk out without paying. Or something like that. The cost will show up on your account but there will be no checkout. The video below released today tells the more detailed story and as of Monday evening has been viewed by well over half a million people. The most critical element in Amazon’s cocktail of software seems to be “computer vision”. It is a no brainer that the store will know you are in the place when it scans your card. But it then has to see you as you snatch stuff off the shelf. It has to see you. Not the guy beside you. Time will tell but Consumerist says today that there is rumbling that Amazon is so tickled with this system that it is dreaming of getting into the corner store business, or something. It seems any number of big operators could replicate the concept. .   .

Readers curious about why the Fraser Institute review of Toronto schools did not contain rankings for Catholic elementary and high schools for 2015-2016, there is this reply from the think-tank to reader John Spence.  “Greetings, As the result of a job action by Toronto Elementary Catholic Teachers’ (TECT) Union, students attending schools operated by the Toronto Catholic District School Board did not write the grade 3 and grade 6 provincewide tests in reading, writing, and math during the 2015-2016 school year. Since we base our rankings on the results of these tests we were unable to include TCDSB schools in this year’s ranking.”

UPDATE – COLLISION
Pottery & Bayview, one NB lane still blocked, all other lanes OPEN #2156699 ^cb

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) December 5, 2016

Writers and reporters were trying hard Monday morning to take seriously the government’s new online poll asking Canadians what they want to do about democracy. It is a fallback of both hilarious and superbly sneaky resort on the part of rookie MP and (by the way) Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef. Hilarious because of how it flees from the dangerous task of actually doing anything. Sneaky because the odds seem good that in the 25 days during which Canadians may comment you will have a hard time finding anyone in all South Bayview who has even heard of the gambit. Money being no issue, the government will mail out 15 million postcards to remind you to take this all seriously. The site is called MyDemocracy.ca if you’re feeling rebelious. No dictatorships of the proletariat or aristocracies please. Oh sorry, same thing.