The South Bayview Bulldog

An eastbound driver got too far into the bike lanes the other night and bounced up onto the extended sidewalk at Moore Ave and Lumley Ave. The result is all too clear.

November being November, it was a pretty darn nice one. Whether you were growing a mustache or getting a pedicure on Bayview Ave., it was easy weather to take. Thanks November and Mr. December, try to do as well. You are off to a good start from the look of the Weather Network forecast below.

Metallica rocked the Opera House last night and while the music (below) may not be everyone’s cup of tea, it yielded a nice bit of cash for the Daily Bread Food Bank. The fans ate it up. The Opera House sits 950 with some tickets selling for $100. Audience members were encouraged to bring food donations for the food bank. The Christmas Drive is on at DBFB with a goal of 1.5 million pounds of food, as well as $1.5 million.

Opening with Breadfan at the Opera House in Toronto, Canada! #MetInToronto #WorldWired pic.twitter.com/z71dumXKD3

— Metallica (@Metallica) November 30, 2016

The Liberal government will acknowledge the hard truth of modern economics and build pipelines to move Alberta oil to the Pacific as well as to the head of the Great Lakes. Does government, society and the pipeline industry need to be exceedingly careful about putting this in place? Naturally. But then, we risk danger to life and limb every day from other things we would never give up because of the superior life they give to Canadians. The CBC story linked here has the Prime Minister saying all these things in the constipated language of politics. Take a look. CBC

A trucker in Manchester, England goes berserk for reasons unknown and among other things attacks another driver with a shovel, drives his truck into the one behind and then grapples with the police.  In Tennessee, co-workers will split $421 million from the Powerball Lottery. The reaction of those interviewed is charming. And in Minnesota, Halima Aden has become the first contestant to wear an Hijab in the Miss Minnesota contest.  Go Halima.

Mayor Tory is tweeting an appeal normally left to the police Tuesday morning as he asks citizens to report any leads in a minor hit and run accident at Yonge and College Streets.

Too many people are getting hit by cars in our city. It needs to stop. If you witnessed this, please contact @TorontoPolice. https://t.co/AuIAknlov1

— John Tory (@JohnTory) November 29, 2016

Six people are said to have survived the crash of the chartered plane in mountainous reaches near the Colombian capital.  TSN  CNN CBC

Isis Shiffer, a graduate of the Pratt Institute of Design in New York, has created the Ecohelmet, a collapsible, recyclable cycling helmet from layers of woven into a honeycomb-shaped structure. It is intended to make bike sharing more popular, with helmets being bought at the rental station.

One man is dead and another man, Galeeb Abau-Jabeen, 23, is facing six offenses including impaired driving and criminal negligence causing death. Two women, also passengers in the car, were injured, one critically. The car, a Honda Civic, was eastbound on Bloor Street at Parliament St about 10 p.m.  It left the roadway at the curve in Bloor Street and struck a utility pole.  This picture was tweeted by @zabbygal who had a bird;s-eye view of the activity.  The early report is that there were two women and one man taken to hospital from the single vehicle accident.

Ontario Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault had what must surely qualify as a religious conversion about how to generate and sell power today as he addressed the Empire Club in Toronto. He said that from now on he will be a “technology agnostic” about buying electricity free from the near-fanatical zeal shown by the Liberals for wind and solar. They even toyed with eliminating natural gas. In terms of energy costs and the tax burden now being shouldered by Ontarians, the solution may not be as simple as that however. Thibeault admitted that Ontario has an unknown number of long-term contracts for renewable energy projects that specified a generation technology. That he says is “arbitrary, and leads to sub-optimal siting, uncompetitive prices and heightened community concern.” Sadly, the contracts remain. Premier Wynne recently admitted her government made a mistake by not recognizing the impact of its energy policies on electricity bills, and promised some sort of relief for consumers. Thibeault told the Empire Club of Canada that Ontario has signed contracts for so much electricity that any future deals will be for minimal amounts of power because it “will be seeking to secure supply on the margins.” He hinted at electricity plans that better suit the needs of different types of consumers. “I need to work with the industry to talk about ways of giving consumers options,” he said.