The South Bayview Bulldog

On Saturday, December 3, Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, their elves and more will be on hand to celebrate the Mount Pleasant Village Christmas Fair. The day will be filled with fun activities put on by the BIA, as well as in-store promotions. New for this year will be a scavenger hunt! Event details are subject to change, so check back again closer to the event. Mount Pleasant Village BIA

Southbound drivers were in for a nasty surprise Friday morning as traffic backed up to well north of Davenport when a crew narrowed three lanes into one at Bloor Street. A hole was dug in the centremost lane and the next was perfect parking for the huge truck. By the watch, the crawl from Davenport to Bloor was 20 minutes.

Florence Henderson, mother and guiding light of The Brady Bunch, died Thursday in Los Angeles at 82. Henderson was making a film in Norway in 1969 when she was asked to appear in the pilot episode of “The Brady Bunch,” an unapologetically upbeat comedy about a woman with three daughters who meets, marries and makes a sunny suburban California home with a widower who has three sons.

Blythwood Road was now closed from Strathgowan Ave to Bayview Ave for approximately an hour on Friday morning.

Updated: Blythwood Rd is now closed in both direction from Bayview Ave to Strathgowan Ave. Major traffic delay, please avoid area poss. ^adc

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) November 25, 2016

Emergency Closure: R47359 CLEARED: BLYTHWOOD RD From BAYVIEW AVE To STRATHGOWAN AVE.

— TO Main Roads (@TO_MainRoads) November 25, 2016

Santa Claus will come to the Beach on Sunday with the Community Centre 55 and the Village of East Toronto Beaches’ Santa Claus Parade. Road closures will be in place from 1 to 2 p.m westbound on Kingston Road (eastbound will operate in a limited capacity) from Victoria Park Avenue to Walter Street and 1:30. to 2 p.m. Walter Street, from Kingston Road to Swanwick Avenue  TTC will experience minor delays during this event. Motorists are advised to consider the road closure when planning their travels.

There’s been accidents and associated mayhem galore overnight around the GTA. It is both pedestrian (a woman knocked down but okay in North York) and dramatic (a York Region municipal bus and a motor coach with 7 people treated, below).  As well, a car hit a shop on the Queensway severing a gas line, a head-on collision at Finch and Midland and two people trapped in a car at Weston and Old Weston Rds. but also okay. Much of it is captured by Tony Smyth and tweeted to his account @LateNightCam

Bus Crash: NB Yonge is closed at Hwy 7 and Hwy 7 closed both ways. 23 people on bus. 6 in care of @YorkParamedics
cc: @CBCTrafficTO pic.twitter.com/seA03ZQ0AW

— Tony Smyth (@LateNightCam) November 25, 2016

Finch Ave closed both ways at Midland Ave due to a head-on collision with injuries. @TPS42Div pic.twitter.com/O6xizGY0Iw

— Tony Smyth (@LateNightCam) November 25, 2016

The Queensway remains closed near Royal York. Vehicle left roadway and hit building. Gas line severed. @TPS22Div pic.twitter.com/YpsCD0ZuEl

— Tony Smyth (@LateNightCam) November 25, 2016

In Lewiston, Idaho officer Thomas Woods got a bit of a surprise when a young man came bounding out of the trunk of his mom’s car intent on escaping. Left to right from the top we see Woods touch the lid. The man inside, Jesse Harnell, tries to bound out but Woods slams the lid back down. Trouble is Harnell, 20, has his leg in the way. It causes Woods to stumble and Harnell is out of the trunk. After a struggle he was put in cuffs by backup police. Woods had stopped the car because he knew it was driven by Harnell’s mother. When he heard a noise in the trunk, he asked her if her son was in there.  Angelia Barnett-Harrell, 47, immediately responded, “It’s a toy gun, don’t shoot him.” Police confirm it was a realistic looking toy gun. See video

Mike Crawley of the CBC thinks there may be a nasty backlash from 905 voters if the Ontario Liberals permit Toronto to impose tolls to drive the DVP and Gardiner.

The committee to find a female face for the Canadian five dollar bill has reported. It names Viola Desmond, who fought racial discrimination in Nova Scotia, Pauline Johnson, a poet who was the daughter of a Mohawk chief and an English woman, and Elsie MacGill, the first woman in Canada to receive a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering. Also on the list is track and field athlete Bobbie Rosenfeld, who won a silver and gold medal at the 1928 Olympics and went on to become a sports columnist, and Idola Saint-Jean, a feminist and pioneer in the fight for suffrage in Quebec. All fine women no doubt but there are some who have impacted life more, like Lucy Maude Montgomery, whose literary work has entertained millions and incidentally made Canada a real place in distant lands. Or Agnes Macphail.  Canadian Press

Police have released images of a quad-style pickup truck apparently the vehicle involved in a hit and run at the intersection of Sheppard Ave and Aragon Ave/Bayview Mills Blvd on November 14. A pedestrian, 76, suffered fatal injuries and the driver fled. The images released appear to civilian observation (not police) to show a Toyota Tundra double cab.

One of the most enjoyable events at U.S. Thanksgiving is the National Dog Show in Philadelphia. This year a sleek greyhound won Best in Show. Much more from NBC on this show 

The Greyhound wins Best in Show in the National Dog Show! #DogThanking pic.twitter.com/c0LKwrb0wp

— NBC Sports (@NBCSports) November 24, 2016