The South Bayview Bulldog

A clutch hit in the bottom of the ninth followed by an infield single at Rogers Centre Saturday powered the Blue Jays to 10-9 walkoff win over Boston.  It was Russell Martin (video) who drove in the tying run with two outs in the ninth and Devon Travis bringing Martin home. Great stuff. The Red Sox appeared to have the game in hand but Toronto fought back to tie it with a four-run eighth inning. David Ortiz restored Boston’s lead with a solo shot in the ninth but the Blue Jays rallied off closer Craig Kimbrel to extend their winning streak to four games.

.@russellmartin55 had himself a day. #OurMomenthttps://t.co/CjKDciEWib

— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) May 28, 2016

Prime Minister Trudeau offered a thank you of sorts to Stephen Harper for his service to Canada Saturday at the Liberal convention in Winnipeg. Mr. Trudeau said there could be no doubting Harper’s commitment to the country no matter what one might have thought of his politics. Bob Rae, the former member for Rosedale and one-time interim Liberal leader and former Ontario NDP Premier, made his feelings clear in a gesture that was caught on video. Later, Mr. Rae posted an apology on Twitter calling his feigned distress “a joke in poor taste that I regret very much.” The video is said by Canadian Press to have provoked both hilarity and consternation among delegates. Beyond this, though, some may wonder the precise target of the unseemly display.

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This week has seen Paris face some of the worst rioting in years. It is all about the 35-hour week and what many in North America call the “en vacances” economy. Very little work for the best of wages.

The annual Bessborough Public School Mayfair is tomorrow (Sunday. May 29 2016 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Looks like crazy fun with features such as a dunk tank (are you kidding?) to paddle boats.

Jack, three, transformed

Mr. Howard on the job

Friends Sophia and Nadia

There was much fun at the Maurice Cody Spring Fair Saturday. A few notable personalities are seen above. Jack, three, is giving it his best shot at the Spiderman thing. Then there is the hearty guy who might easily play a principal on television except he is one in real life. His name is Andrew Howard. Bottom above are old friends Sophia and Nadia of the Drink Company on Manor Rd. They just opened a second store in Shops of Don Mills. Below you can catch a flavour of the day in video. That’s a wall-climbing tower off the top. Compliments to all.

Yikes. So easy to get off the subway if the doors are never closed. In this case a car on the Bloor-Danforth line sped across the Bloor viaduct with one door open. The TTC is investigating. They acknowledge it is a very serious matter. CityNews viewer Kamal says it was shot just before 6:30 p.m. Friday evening. He says the door malfunctioned at Castle Frank Station where a TTC employee tried unsuccessfully to fix it. The train later left for Broadview Station with the doors open.

@CityNews TTC tried to fix door of a subway Car on line 2. Then TTC let the train go from Castle Franck to Broadview pic.twitter.com/Er0YC7ysr5

— KJ (@NEWSFORWORLD) May 27, 2016

The Maurice Cody Spring Fair is Saturday, May 28, 2016. See you there.

A frightening bully of a driver whose reckless driving led to the paralysis of two little girls has been sentenced to four years in prison in Britain. A judge had said that this penalty for Andrew Nay, 39, will never feel like enough to the family whose bright young daughters are now confined to wheelchairs for the rest of their lives. It is interesting to compare the sentence given to Nay to that imposed on Marco Muzzo for the impaired driving death of three children and their grandfather in York Region last year. Muzzo got ten years. It is the horrifying manoeuvres made by Nay that grip the mind. They were caught on the dashcam of the car in which the children were riding with their parents. Nay was seen by other drivers laughing with his passenger before he tailgated and “bullied” a woman driving the other vehicle seen in the video. Such contemptible driving seems to warrant a harsher penalty. Court heard how Nay made a sudden right-hand turn across oncoming traffic and smashed into the car containing Katrina and Karlina Raiba, aged five and eight last October.

The adventure of an 11-year-old boy at the wheel of a Chevy SUV has ended more or less okay. No one is hurt. Just how it got started is still to be told. It happened downtown around Lake Shore Boulevard and Parkside Drive area. In a tweet sent out shortly after 7 p.m., police said they believed he was driving a black Chevy Equinox. But they confirmed that the boy had been found just before 8 p.m. “Police have stopped the vehicle,” the tweet said. “The (11-year-old-boy) has been located. He is safe and sound. Thanks for all of your help.” The boy was driving the vehicle when he was pulled over in the Queen Street and Ossington Avenue area, police confirmed.

UPDATE: Police have stopped the vehicle. The 11 year old has been located. He is safe and sound. Thanks for all of your help and RTs.^adc

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) May 27, 2016

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The 11 yr old is a male white, 5'10", wearing an orange t-shirt, driving a blk Chevy Equinox., plate #: BCBY219, any info pls call 911.^adc

— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) May 27, 2016

Premier Wynne herself has said that Ontario won’t ban the use of natural gas for home heating as part of its climate change action plan. She said it in Alberta where people hate the idea as passionately as they do in places like Leaside and Larder Lake. And it is important to note that the gas-ban fear has stalked the province for many days. Often it seemed as if the Liberal Party’s plan was to pretend no one had said such a thing.  Who knows, but  the Premier has called the report “false” and said natural gas will “absolutely” be used to heat Ontario homes in the future.  “The criticism that we have been getting is that we were going to be banning natural gas, and that is not something that we’re doing,” Wynne said after meeting Alberta Premier Rachel Notley in Edmonton Thursday.