The long-since decommissioned City of Toronto incinerator known as the Wellington Destructor is about to be renovated into a new community hub says a news release. The real estate development company TAS has been chosen and has been given a long-term lease. The Destructor was commissioned in 1925. It’s at 667 Wellington St West.
SERRA, the South Eglinton Ratepayers and Residents Association, will meet online Wednesday evening with participants of a community consultation starting at 6.30 p.m. Recent indication that City staff is wavering on the specifications presented by the people-based Midtown Working Group has given urgency to the meeting. SERRA is urging you to join the meeting tonight.
You see them too but The Bulldog has a mania for such things. At upper left, the animated GIF was tweeted by Leaside High School to celebrate a two-day week. Things must slow in the office too. Then there’s the strange story of President’s Choice Tomato Soup. It vanished six months ago and most of the signs for it are gone too. But wait. The secret Loblaws code DNO means that the soup may yet come back. Want to bet? At centre left is a suspiciously Communist sign hung on Roxborough Ave. Looks like the crowd at the 1917-Russian-revolution phone number see an opening in the Indigenous media stories. At the bottom, you can watch the Danny Thomas Show (1953) on CHCH. Or maybe not. Finally, there are suggestions that authorities put a bike rental station at each end of the seemingly endless tunnel in the new bus station at Union Station. Pedestrians are shuddering. We love our oddities.
We’ve become used to all sorts of Korean imports. They range from Hyundais to clean-cut girl and boy K-pop bands. But Squid Game is different.
Nobel nod to Canadian economist
A Canadian economist, David Card, has shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with two US colleagues. His thesis, as we the laymen at The Bulldog understand it, is that corporations really don’t suffer all that much when the minimum wage is increased. As seen in the comments to this CBC report, some people feel a little underwhelmed by this insight.
Man held in New York after girl grabbed off street
The video in this report is just very frightening. An unkempt man lurches towards a grandmother escorting three kids and runs off with a little girl.
A post to the Leslieville Facebook page describes a holdup at Domino’s Pizza at Queen East and Larchmount Ave in which the knife-wielding perp wore a sweater that urged the world to Work hard, Stay humble. Hmm.
OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique has tweeted shots of a moose being escorted to safety by a cruiser on Highway 69 near Sudbury. Who knew? The brief video from which these shots were captured has a charming sequence in which a family member shooting this scene says it is the most Canadian thing she has ever seen. Yes, in many ways. See it here.
Brant County OPP say that 47 dogs, three cats and a turtle have been removed from the home of a man who died at the town of Burford on Highway 53 just west of Brantford. The animals are being cared for at various kennels and animal welfare locations. Cassia Bryden of the Hillside Kennel Animal Control told the CBC that she was wakened by police at 3 a.m. Friday to attend the site. She told CTV that it appeared the dogs had apparently not been out of the house for many months or even years. The man is said to have died of natural causes.
Summer’s Best Fruits and Flowers has opened a second store at 1573 Bayview Ave., the former home of Your Clothes Friend. Summer’s has another store at 3229 Yonge St near Lawrence Ave. This will bring the number of stores selling fresh produce and related goods on Bayview to three. The others are Badali’s, perhaps the oldest ongoing business on the street, and Passion Fruits at 1573 Bayview.
The Globe and Mail says Saturday that Rogers Communications saw a dramatic power struggle that ended with the abrupt departure of chief financial officer (CFO) Tony Staffieri after a board meeting in September. It says that chairperson Edward Rogers tried unsuccessfully to unseat CEO Joe Natale. His choice was apparently Mr Staffieri. The board meeting in question saw substantial support for Mr. Natale led by Mr. Rogers sister, Melinda, who is deputy chair. The Globe and Mail requires a subscription but an account of this conflict is published by MobileSyrup (below).
Thanksgiving wishes in the pandemic twilight here from Leaside United Church choir members. See their tweet here
Authorities have launched an investigation after a man survived a nine-floor plunge from a New Jersey high rise Thursday. According to the New York Post, the terrifying incident took place at around 10:30 a.m. at 26 Journal Square in Jersey City. Onlooker Christina Smith told the Post the man managed to stand up after the fall, before asking others “What happened?” He landed on a BMW convertible. The slang “soft top” seems apt. Watch the incredible video tweeted by a witness (below)
Toronto Fire Chief Matthew Pegg has tweeted video showing an aerial 360 of the recently burned-out mansion on Old Colony Rd.
