The South Bayview Bulldog

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

One capybara as been captured and sent off to some sort of rest and recovery location, according to High Park Zoo officials. It will be back at the zoo in short order. But the second of two of these large rodent-like creatures continues to elude capture. It appears the mixed team of expert and amateur capybara capturers needs a bigger net or better bait.

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Police will launch a one-week campaign related to safe driving and safe cycling on Monday. It will last over until Sunday, June 19, 2016. Below is the TPS release. 
The Service will be launching the S.P.A.C.E. to Cycle campaign, starting on Monday, June 13, 2016. The campaign (Safety, Prevention, Awareness, Courtesy, Education) will conclude on Sunday, June 19, 2016. This one-week campaign is designed to promote awareness and education by reducing the potential for cycling and wheel-sport-related injuries. Building partnerships and mobilizing local communities to respond to local traffic problems will assist in sustaining successful efforts and improve neighbourhood roadway safety

CARS AND BIKES

Education and enforcement of cycling offences are critical to ensuring safe roadways for our communities. All frontline officers will be paying particular attention to those motorists whose actions endanger the lives of cyclists, for example, drivers failing to proceed through turns safely, opening vehicle doors improperly, and driving/parking in designated cycling lanes, all contribute to reduce cycling safety. Officers will also be paying attention to cyclists who commit offences that endanger all road-users, including the cyclists themselves. Parking Enforcement Officers will assist with this initiative by concentrating on parking offences that may compromise the safety of cyclists.

SIDEWALKS

Editors remarks: One of the great dilemmas of cycling is the final safe refuge for cyclists of the sidewalk. It’s common on Bayview Ave. Cycling on the sidewalk, which is illegal, is tolerable if it is done slowly and doesn’t approach pedestrians from behind. Otherwise, walkers can choose to hide in a doorway or try to read just where the cyclist will go. Not a good bet. It is an issue on which more than one public meeting with the police has broken down. Cyclists say they don’t feel safe on the road and pedestrians don’t feel safe dodging bikes.

Erica Stark

A parkette on Bain Ave in Riverdale has been named for a former Leaside woman, Erica Stark. She was killed in 2014 when a minivan jumped the sidewalk and struck her while she was walking a dog in Scarborough. The accident occurred at the corner of Gilder Rd. and Eglinton Ave.  Stark, 42, was honoured by friends and family, including her husband David, at a ceremony in the parkette Saturday. It is located near Pape and Danforth Ave. and was the former Bain Ave. Parkette. Erica Stark was born Erica Bissinger and spent her formative years in Leaside. She has three children, all boys. Erica Stark (Bissinger) formerly of Leaside

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