The South Bayview Bulldog

Saturday, June 18, 2016, the City will hold what it is called a pop-up consultation on Toronto’s ravine strategy n the East York Memorial Arena parking lot. It is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The news release speaks of generalized vision for future decision-making related to ravines. It seems like it wants to fine tune things. In any case, people are invited to offer ideas on how the ravines might best be used. Saturday is Community Environment Day in Ward 31. The arena is at 888 Cosburn Ave. at Cedarvale Avenue Full news release 

The East York Farmers Market had a beautiful — and busy — Tuesday in Memorial Gardens Park, 880 Coxwell Ave at Mortimer Ave. The market is on every Tuesday this summer from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The stand selling big fat hot dogs with licentious condiments was mobbed and saw several scrubs-clad employees of nearby East General Hospital tucking into a lunch not approved by the institution’s dietician. Oh well.

General Motors has invented a “rear seat reminder” that begins boinging if you’ve left someone in the rear seat as you get out.  It will appear first on the 2017 Acadia SUV. The device is a response to annual incidents of children and pets left behind especially in hit weather. As many as 12 children died in the U.S. from heatstroke in cars, safety advocates say. It works like a seat belt reminder: a warning tone sounds and alerts drivers to “Look In Rear Seat,” with a message flashing in the center of the vehicle’s speedometer. The feature will be included by default in all new Acadias, GM’s global safety strategy engineer Tricia Morrow told CNNMoney, though you can shut it off if you choose to do so. The company says it will integrate the tool into other four-door GM models in the future.  Consumerist

Kevin Somers, vice-president of operations at Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd., has told The South Bayview Bulldog that a “consolidated” service will continue to operate at the 1391 Bayview (at McRae Dr) office even as some staff moves to the company’s York Mills Centre office on Yonge Street. “We remain very committed to Leaside and will continue to be doing business there,” Mr. Somers said Wednesday.  There has been a question about the future of the long-standing real estate office on Bayview. Some people believed that it was going to close.

The United Kingdom votes on a momentous referendum June 23, 2016. It will decide whether Britain stays in the European Union. There is said to be movement toward leaving although the EU side is said to still hold an edge. .

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Former New Democrat MP Glenn Thibeault is Ontario’s new energy minister following a cabinet shuffle by Premier Kathleen Wynne, who also created several new ministries.Thibeault was lured from the NDP by Wynne to run as a provincial Liberal in a 2015 byelection in Sudbury, and was rewarded Monday with a promotion to cabinet. Six other new faces were promoted to cabinet, including Eleanor McMahon in Tourism, Culture and Sport; Kathryn McGarry in Natural Resources and Forestry; Marie-France Lalonde in Consumer Services; and Indira Naidoo-Harris as associate minister of finance. Mitzie Hunter will become Ontario’s new Minister of Education, replacing Liz Sandals, who becomes president of the Treasury Board. Michael Chan moves from Citizenship and Immigration to the new Ministry of International Trade, while Yasir Naqvi will become attorney general. Wynne says 40 per cent of the cabinet is women, and defends expanding the size of her executive council, insisting the new ministries are needed to implement key parts of the Liberal agenda. Group photos of the new cabinet were taken indoors in this fine June day. The reason was the lockdown and terror scare ongoing at nearby University of Toronto.

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Premier Wynne spoke to a gathering near Church and Wellesley Streets last night at a vigil remembering the dead and injured in the attack in Orlando Florida Saturday night. The attack was on an LGBT meeting place and the assumption seems reasonable that the attacker, Omar Mateen, was driven by homophobia fuelling homicidal conduct. The premier urged those present to love one another and continue to take pride. She said pride events are necessary because of such outrages. Mateen is said by police to have spoken only about an allegiance to ISIS in a 911 call made during or after the killings. ISIS kills without compunction for many routinely stated reasons. Some say the origin of its violence may be found not in conventional reasons but rather the use of hatred to top-up the self-esteem of the inadequate.

VIA Rail and its largest union Unifor reached a midnight agreement Sunday which has avoided a national passenger service stoppage. Some 1800 employees will vote on ratification in coming day but no details of the deal are public.

Msgr Edward Boehler

A visitation for friends and parishioners of Monsignor Edward Francis Boehler will be held Monday, June 13, 2016 from 2 to 4:p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. in St. Anselm Church at MacNaughton Road and Millwood Road. Funeral Mass will be Tuesday, June 14 at 11 a.m. at the  church. The Mass will be followed by a light reception in the church hall. Burial will follow at St. Augustine’s Seminary, 2661 Kingston Road. Monsignor Boehler.died on Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at The Cardinal Ambrozic Houses of Providence in his 85th year and in his 60th year of priesthood. He was a servant of the church from ordination in 1957 and among his many postings and duties was that of pastor at St. Anselm. Obituary