The South Bayview Bulldog

The mayor has announced further allowances of $250 a month to needy families to help pay for rent while they wait in the City’s backlog of people hoping to get public housing. Some 550 families will receive the subsidy.

Toronto has issued a super extreme heat alert Thursday. It looks like the same 33-degree oven we had yesterday is here again. Cooling centres are open across the City again. Here are places to find refuge if you don’t have air. They are open from 11 a.m. today and close at 7 p.m. There are many cool places to hang out however, including libraries and shopping malls. Here are the cooling centres:

• Metro Hall – 55 John St. (This cooling centre remains open 24 hours a day for the duration of the extreme heat warning)

• East York Civic Centre – 850 Coxwell Ave.

• North York Civic Centre – 5100 Yonge St.

• Driftwood Community Centre – 4401 Jane St.

• Etobicoke Civic Centre – 399 The West Mall

• McGregor Community Centre – 2231 Lawrence Ave. E.

• Centennial Park Community Centre – 1967 Ellesmere Rd.

Those at the greatest risk of heat-related illnesses include people with chronic illnesses, infants, young children, and those with limited mobility.

 

Late Wednesday Canada Post kicked its lockout deadline over to Monday at 12:01 a.m. ET. It says it is willing to submit to binding arbitration in an effort to resolve the ongoing labour dispute. (Did it hear from the government?)  We know that there are no talks planned between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Spokesman Jon Hamilton said the two sides couldn’t be further apart. The issues are money — CUPW wants more than the 1.5 percent offered — the pension limitations Canada Post says it needs to reduce costs. About 50,000 staff are waiting and will be affected. Canadian Press reports that Public Services Minister Judy Foote was warned three months ago that contract negotiations between Canada Post and CUPW were likely to lead to a strike or lockout, with officials advising the government to avoid taking sides in bargaining.

 

40,000 fans thrilled to the heroics of Canadian-born Michael Saunders Wednesday night at Rogers Centre as the Blue Jays swept the World Series Champions Kansas City Royals 4 to 2. Saunders was making his case. He hit his 16th home run of the season in the fourth inning and a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth to set up a walk off win for reliever Roberto Osuna. “Bobbie, Bobbie” rang around the centre as Osuna baffled the Royals in the top of the ninth. Saunders, 29, is having the best season of his career, posting 40 RBI through his first 78 games. On Tuesday, Saunders was nominated as one of five players vying for the final spot on the American League All-Star team, to be decided by a fan vote.

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— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) July 6, 2016

Where is Ying Chun (Annie) Li? The 36-year-old Markham woman.was last seen June 12 near Markham Rd. and Denison St. at 6 p.m. There is also a report she may have been seen an hour later in Richmond Hill. But there has been no sign of her for three weeks causing regional police to have the homicide squad look into this puzzling disappearance. Li is known to visit the Yonge St. and Sheppard Ave. and Fairview Mall areas in Toronto. Investigators are also looking to speak with a woman who may have seen Li and are asking her to come forward to police. Annie Li is described as 5-foot-2 and weighing 120 pounds. She has brown eyes and black hair. Anyone with information is being asked to contact the homicide unit at 1-866-876-5423 ext. 7865 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.

This is a genuinely shocking story from Indonesia, the more so because it seems neither the authorities nor the boy’s parents have come to grips with the causes behind his weight. Is it a simple case of carelessness on everyone’s part or is there a medical element to it. BBC

 Toronto Blue Jays will be trying to sweep the Kansas City Royals Wednesday at Rogers Stadium. Tuesday, Josh Donaldson hit two solo home runs, Troy Tulowitzki had a three-run blast and the Toronto Blue Jays connected four times to beat the Kansas City Royals 8-3 on Tuesday night.

David Holland will resign immediately as president and chief executive officer of Torstar Corporation. He has worked at the Toronto Star since 1986. Reports have noted that Mr. Holland made no mention of his departure at the retirement of publisher John Cruickshank in early May. Instead he assumed Mr. Cruickshank’s job and spoke of his plan to carry it out vigorously. But things are in flux in the newspaper business. Many wonder how long the Star will be printed on paper seven days a week

TORY FOR POLICE FLOATS

Mayor Tory has written a letter to the Toronto Police Association supporting the presence of uniformed police participation in the Pride Parade. The ever-angry Black Lives Matter (BLM) double-crossed their new friends Sunday by conducting a petulant sit-down demonstration which stalled the parade for half an hour. In the process, BLM bullied Pride boss Mathieu Chantelois into signing a laundry list of things including banning cops from the parade. No one at City Hall apart from the mayor seems to have the interest, much less the courage, to say anything.

HOME PRICES

Resale home prices and  sales in Toronto continued to rise in June even as the number of listings dropped 3.8 percent. The Toronto Real Estate Board recorded 7.5 per cent more sales, 12,794 in all in June. The average home price was $746,546 in June, up 16.8 per cent from the same month last year.

It gives a whole new meaning to the expression “man’s best friend.” Dog trainers and medical experts are predicting an era of trained sniffer dogs ferreting out dangerous and deadly bacteria in hospitals and elswhere in way that has been beyond the reach of man. The living evidence of this is Angus, a two year old English Springer Spaniel who demonstrated his skill in Vancouver this week.

Lawn Summer Nights, the zany costumed lawn bowling benefit to combat Cystic Fibrosis, returns to the Leaside Lawn Bowling Club Thursday, July 7, 2016. The idea is to get together a team and dress it in outlandish costumes. Past teams have been named the Royal Canadian Mounted Bowlice and Guacabowle. You get the idea. Lawn Summer Nights  Previous 

Here’s the 14-day sweating scene.