The South Bayview Bulldog

Smoke was rolling across the sky Sunday morning from an auto storage or scrapyard fire on Union Street in the west end. For all the smoke however the fire service did not declare alarms for this fire. It was easily handled. TFS sources identify the location as Stark Auto at 160 Union. Union is in the Stockyard District north of St. Clair beside the rail line. The firm is next door to Auto World Auto Wreckers. No one has been hurt and the fire is now under control. Twitter posts of smoke.

https://twitter.com/Colin162/status/795246254145945600

PERSON WITH A GUN:
Mt Pleasant Rd + Whitehall Rd
-Man robbed of personal belongings
-Robbed by group
-Gun indicated not seen
#1971627
^dh

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

Mt Pleasant and Whitehall

https://twitter.com/tpscalls/status/795133123637968897

After a 3-1 win over Ottawa Lady Sens Saturday, members of the Leaside Junior Wildcats hit Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata for the Ottawa Senators-Buffalo Sabres game. Sunday the tough Nepean Wildcats await Toronto Leaside.

Toronto Police say a three-year-old child was scratched on the hand after coming across a bag of syringes while playing on the grounds of a school in the Trinity-Bellwoods area on Saturday night. Const. David Hopkinson said police were called to the grounds of Charles G. Fraser Junior Public School on Manning Avenue, north of Queen Street West at 6:50 p.m. The child came across the syringes while playing at the school.

It's here! Christmas tree hoisted up in Nathan Phillips Square https://t.co/EfllQ5zgLv pic.twitter.com/jijWyxsWQ6

— CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto) November 5, 2016

Fall backwards. Clockwise that is. Yes, this is the night to grab an hour more in the sack if you have an inclination. The official moment to do it is 2 a.m. EDT Sunday back to 1 a.m. EST. But bedtime will work just fine.

An Italian court was beating up on Facebook this week in the case of a woman who committed suicide apparently because she was embarrassed by a sex tape she made willingly, but which of course, deeply distressed her when an ex-boyfriend posted it. Quite sad all around. Elsewhere in Your World, there is a lot of concern in Hollywood and Washington at the purchase by Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda of Dick Clark Productions. Wanda already owns many U.S. entertainment companies including the AMC theatre chain. Critics say the huge firm may be a doorway into the U.S for Chinese propaganda. And there are mixed feelings about the ratification — if that’s what it was — of the COP21 agreement on the environment.

There was no winning ticket sold for the $44 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for next Friday’s draw on Nov. 11 will be $50 million.

Leaside Junior Wildcats are in Ottawa Saturday and Sunday (November 5-6) for games against the Ottawa Lady Sens at the Carleton University Ice House and the Nepean junior women’s hockey team, also known as the Wildcats. That game is at Nepean Sportsplex. Nepean in particular is the squad to beat with their 10-4-1 record so far this year in Provincial Women’s Hockey League play. Good luck Leaside Cats.

Jeff Mann

Staff, students and friends at Deer Park Public School have been dealing this fall with the sudden death of Jeffery E. Mann. Jeff Mann died unexpectedly early in September at the age of 41. He is being remembered at the school where he taught physical education with the Jeff Mann Scholarship  Two students, a boy and a girl, will receive a $2,500 scholarship each year under the program. Obit

Thinking about Jeff Mann. He was a kind & deeply beloved teacher who made a difference at Deer Park PS. He died this year at the age of 41.

— Josh Matlow (@JoshMatlow) November 3, 2016

All it takes is money to run this great City and several bureaucrats were talking hard numbers on Friday at City Hall. Overall, they say taxpayers should pony up 5 percent more for tap water and nearly 4 percent for garbage pickup in 2017. These are  suggested rate increases from City staff and they were put before the Budget Committee as part of a rate-supported budget. This cash is separate from property taxes which used to pay for everything but these days get used up before costs are covered. .If approved by council, these costs it continue a trend at City Hall of balancing the budget through higher user fees while keeping property taxes low.  Staff also proposed that council approve an $8-per-household a year charge to cover the cost of hauling away large items like old sinks, sofas, drum sets and so forth. The crunch numbers are these: single-family garbage-collection fees would increase by $12.73 for small bins; $15.45 for medium; $20.98 for large; and $24.34 for extra-large. Proposed water-rate increases would bump the average residential bill from $914 a year in 2016 to $960 in 2017.