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Time flies, especially when you’re spending money. Try to believe it was on this day 20 year ago the first Canadian two-dollar coin was launched into circulation Since then the durable two-tone deuce doubloon has become a valued friend to Canadians in need of metre-money or a main-lined solo-long espresso. Almost 883 million of the coins have entered circulation The toonie features the image of a polar bear on one side, and like all other current Canadian circulation coins, has a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the other.

TOONIES LAST 20 YEARS

The discontinued two-dollar bill was less expensive to manufacture, but each bill lasted on average only one year. Toonies, on the other hand, are durable as the deuce (sorry). They last 20 years. The introduction of the toonie followed the successful introduction of the $1 loonie coin in 1987. That coin must be counted as an enduring success.

COMMON LOON

The loonie’s rather embarrassing beginning is disappearing into history. It was first intended to carry the image of a Canadian voyageur but the original plates were lost in transit. Not to encourage counterfeiters, the Canadian Mint just moved on to a picture of the common loon. It seems to have worked.  The Mint abandoned plans for a possible $5 coin to replace the $5 bill a decade ago, after a government-commissioned poll found almost no support for such a move, despite the savings to be had.

A two-year-old boy has been fatally injured outside the front door of an apartment at Richview Rd and Scarlett Rd. The tragic events unfolded Tuesday afternoon as the driver, 25, waited outside the apartment for a passenger. Once aboard, he put the car in reverse and struck a mother and her boy who were also exiting the apartment. The accident recalls the life-saving nature of backup signals on cars. Police are asking local residents, businesses, and drivers, who may have security or dash-camera footage of the area or incident, to contact investigators at (416) 808-1900.

Absurd bitcoin scam goes on virus or no virus

Police are warning of ongoing attempts to swindle people and get away with it by using the anonymous bitcoin currency. In reality, the untraceable bitcoin has become one of the best friends ever found by criminal minds. This time victims are told their social insurance number has been compromised and asked to convert their cash to bitcoin to protect their assets. It’s an absurd idea but of course sooner or later someone falls for it.

Now Magazine has been sold to a firm named Media Central Corp. for as much as $2 million in what appears to be the first step of a plan to consolidate the alternative publication landscape. Now reported a loss of more than $832,000 after announcing it would drop escort ads and related sex ads late last year. National Post

Young woman duped of $4,000 by phone number spoof scam

A Cornwall woman has lost all her money after falling victim to a scam the RCMP are calling the top identity fraud in Canada. Julia-Shea Baker, a 23-year-old server, lost $4,000 to the “SIN scam,” a new version of the Canada Revenue Agency fraudulent act that’s been used for years to dupe people out of their money. She was told by the fraudster to transfer cash out of the bank and buy gift certificates. Along with payment in Bitcoin, the purchase of gift cards is a well-known warning that a fraud is taking place. Sadly, Ms Baker did not speak to her bank manager. CBC

East York man picks up dog, hurries home as coyotes circle

Reporter Joanna Lavoie tells of Topham Park resident Andrew Ryan’s harrowing decision to pick up his border collie and carry the animal home after he and his pet.were circled by two coyotes.. “(The coyotes) are too comfortable around people. Making noise doesn’t seem to scare them away,” Ryan told Lavoie,  He said he has seen three coyotes — two younger ones and what appears to be their mother — at least 20 times in the area in recent weeks. Toronto.com

The wonderful world of bitcoin has proven costly to investors in the defunct cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX. The firm’s court appointed monitor says in a report that there is little chance some $200 million that disappeared completely on the death of founder Gerald Cotton can ever be found. He recommends bankruptcy instead of trying to restructure. Incredibly, Cotton kept all knowledge of how to access funds to himself and when he died in India earlier this year no one knew where the money was. Into the bargain, it appears Cotton mixed his personal and business affairs and that he could have used the company‘s funds to acquire assets outside the business. Is Gerald really dead, Nails Maguire and stealing your teeth 

A bitcoin extortion scam similar to that seen in Leaside last year has hit affluent men in Greenwich, Connecticut. In the Leaside case, extortionists threatened to reveal “secrets” about family members. In the US, the threat says wives will be told the horrible truth. In both cases a demand is made for a payoff in the untraceable cryptocurrency. And as in Leaside, the extortionists don’t really know anything. They trade on the fears of most people, men and woman, that something about them will be revealed. It’s a dirty trick. Then, beautiful shots of the so-called blood moon with the best explanation ever heard of just what that means. Below that, the mother of Mollie Tibbetts is hanging on to her hope. The Iowa girl disappeared earlier in the week on a regular jog through corn fields. Finally, wildfires are closing in on the Northern California town of Redding and residents are fleeing..

Rob Oliphant recognizes Vanessa Rose

Leaside United Church Christmas Eve

Emergency Toy Clinic

Ann Brown’s favorite

East York Civic Centre Christmas Tree

Art Clarke and David Harding’s lucky coin Christmas card

Upper left, Leaside stalwart Vanessa Rose is honoured by MP Rob Oliphant for her tireless community work over the years in Leaside and Thorncliffe Park. That’s the Sesquicentennial Citizenship Award Vanessa has in hand. Thanks Vanessa. To the right, an unnamed elf among the many over at the Community Centre 55 Emergency Toy Clinic on Main St. They were hopping today preparing bags of gifts for needy families. Centre left, Ann Brown, the administrator of Leaside Chit Chat Facebook, has posted her favorite Christmas wish and to the right, the glorious East York Civic Centre Christmas Tree. Finally at the bottom, the Christmas tradition of the card that goes back and forth between childhood pals Art Clarke and David Harding. It’s a kind of Scottish joke about the lucky coin given as a gift but only if the recipient gives it back next year. Clarke and Harding have been doing this for 65 years.

Bank the Thai Turtle

Yecch! Coins she ate

Surgeons in Thailand have removed 915 coins from inside Bank the Sea Turtle and the 25-year-old is recovering nicely. The coins were tossed into Banks pool by visitors looking for good luck. The swallowed coins formed an 11-pound (5 kilograms) mass in the sea turtle’s stomach and the weight of the metal eventually cracked Bank’s ventral (underside) shell, leading to infection, the AP reported.

Bayview Avenue shoppers will want to keep in mind the 70th Anniversary Sale event at Dolly Jewellers, 1699 Bayview. It coincides with the BIA’s Sidewalk Sensation Sale on Saturday, June 25. There will be cake and refreshments as Dolly Jewellers marks this birthday. Dolly Jewellers marks 70 years in business in Toronto  Sidewalk Sensation  If you are a merchant on Bayview Ave., tell The South Bayview Bulldog what you plan for the Sidewalk Sensation.

How nice if on;y we could wish him many happy returns personally, this most remarkable man who constructed our language it seems nearly all by himself. He was baptised on April 25, 1854 in Stratford-Upon-Avon but experts say that he was born on the 23rd. As was the way at that time, he lived only to the age of 52. When he was 18 he married Anne Hathaway and they had  three children. Sensing perhaps that there is a tide in the affairs of  men that, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune, Shakespeare moved his family to London and began his successful career. It seems unlikely that even  he could have understood the impact he was having on the entire English-speaking world and its many extensions in the centuries to come. From the indispensable “rant” — a staple of the late 20th and early 21st centuries — to the dazzling “bedazzled”, Shakespeare made up and made us love words and phrases like no one else. Here is an enjoyable list of 50 of them coined by this more than iconic man.

– “For goodness sake” – Henry VIII- “Neither here nor there” – Othello- “Mum’s the word” – Henry VI, Part II- “Eaten out of house and home” – Henry IV, Part II- “Rant” – Hamlet- “Knock knock! Who’s there?” – Macbeth- “All’s well that ends well” – All’s Well That Ends Well- “With bated breath” – The Merchant of Venice- “A wild goose chase” – Romeo and Juliet- “Assassination” – Macbeth- “Too much of a good thing” – As You Like It- “A heart of gold” – Henry V- “Such stuff as dreams are made on” – The Tempest- “Fashionable” – Troilus and Cressida- “What the dickens” – The Merry Wives of Windsor- “Puking” – As You Like It- “Lie low” – Much Ado About Nothing- “Dead as a doornail” – Henry VI, Part II- “Not slept one wink” – Cymbeline- “Foregone conclusion” – Othello- “The world’s mine oyster” – The Merry Wives of Windsor- “Obscene” – Love’s Labour’s Lost- “Bedazzled” – The Taming of the Shrew- “In stitches” – Twelfth Night- “Addiction” – Othello- “Naked truth” – Love’s Labour’s Lost- “Faint-hearted” – Henry VI, Part I- “Send him packing” – Henry IV- “Vanish into thin air” – Othello- “Swagger” – Henry V- “Own flesh and blood” – Hamlet- “Truth will out” – The Merchant of Venice- “Zany” – Love’s Labour’s Lost- “Give the devil his due” – Henry IV, Part I- “There’s method in my madness” – Hamlet- “Salad days” – Antony and Cleopatra- “Wear your heart on your sleeve” – Othello- “Spotless reputation” – Richard II- “Full circle” – King Lear- “There’s the rub” – Hamlet- “All of a sudden” – The Taming of the Shrew- “Come what, come may” – Macbeth