The South Bayview Bulldog

St Clair Station: Pleasant Blvd. entrance closing at 2am tonight until mid-June. Use main entrance on St Clair. PRESTO coming soon #TTC

— TTC Customer Service (@TTChelps) May 19, 2016

Nike has released a line of Starbucks-inspired sneakers. They are the “Nike SB Dunk Low “Starbucks” Premium”, the sneakers are brown-colored with streaky swirls of khaki, which of course looks like the steam from a fresh cup of joe. The Nike swoosh is the same green and white colors as the Starbucks logo, and the green is also featured on the outline, along the heel, tongue and base of the shoes. The sneakers are said to be available for a limited time at select Nike retailers but there is no word from Nike about the availability in Canada. And like many in the SB Premium line, these have a grande price, of about $100 a pop, or about the cost of 20 venti-sized lattes.

Tsai Ing-wen has been sworn in as the president of Taiwan. She was openly elected. Comparisons are often made between Taiwan (which makes the undemocratic Chinese Communists crazy) and North Korea, which is run by a Mafia family who keep threatening to nuke the world.

In Niagara Region, a 3-year-old boy has been critically injured when his dad reversed a riding lawn mower not knowing the child was behind him. It happened in the community of Pelham. Reports say the father thought the child was inside the house as he cut the lawn. The family’s next door neighbor is a paramedic supervisor who stabilized the child on the scene. The hospital says the boy is in critical condition.

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Toronto MLB team breaks five game losing streak. Tulowitzki clinch hit and high quality closer heriosm by Joe Biagini profiled here . The Raptors were crushed 108 to 89 by the Cavaliers.

An odd fire of still unknown origin in and near the Runnymede Station shut down the Bloor St. line today (Line 2) and it caused a huge backup of passengers as the place was evacuated.  “It is still active, but we are in the process of putting it out,” said District Chief Stephan Powell of Toronto Fire. “There are copious amounts of smoke at Runnymede Station. We are currently ventilating that smoke.” Powell said the fire seemed to have started at more than one point and that a subway train was reported as having caught on fire.

Police are alerting the public to the theft of a container of Percocet (also known as oxycodone) the powerful opioid, taken today about 12:45 p.m. from a location at Danforth Avenue and Dawes Road.  They can be harmful, or even fatal, if ingested, especially to children. Percocet comes in round, oval and oblong and can be blue, peach, yellow or pink

Dashcam video has come to light which picks up some of the driving of a man who ultimately has an accident and is charged with impaired driving. Well into the video above, the driver is seen careening onto the side of the road and knocking over pylons. A moment or two later he slams into the rear of a car which has slowed to turn right at Don Mills. Quite an act.

Television journalist Morley Safer, who made his reputation as a Vietnam War correspondent for CBS and then became a mainstay on the network’s “60 Minutes” show for 46 years, died at age 84 on Thursday, a few days after his retirement, the network announced. Safer was Canadian who started his career in Toronto. He retired in what CBS described as declining health, dying at his home in Manhattan. Safer, who spent 61 years in television news, brought an authoritative, urbane style to “60 Minutes,” CBS’s ground-breaking news program, and his work was a mix of hard and soft news. The part-time painter often reported on art and his disdain for contemporary works often set the art world atwitter.