Morning Brew: August 31st, 2007

re: keg registry. Because kegs=guns in the world of Julian Fantino. You know, it would be nice to be able to blame the Tories for him, but somehow he's a Liberal, like the Liberal MPs you find in the east 416 that have problems with gay people.

re: powerline - we have power blips every week in our neighbourhood (near East York General), meaning clocks have to be reset and so on. If a new powerline will solve that, bring it on. Gotta power our new streetcars somehow eh?

I decided not to vote NDP provincially because of a Howard Hampton pamphlet I saw at their party headquarters saying how the NDP supports logging.

Labour is their bread and butter of course, but I am against logging.

It doesn't really matter how I vote because NDP will win in my riding regardless. The thing I am exxcited about is MMP. I am voting in favour of that and I really hope that it passes.

I thought I heard that kegs were being sold for scrap metal since the value of the aluminium is greater than the deposit on the keg. Did anyone else hear or read about this?

The market for scrap metal is just wild. Tanker trucks have disappeared from compounds and cut up for scrap. People are stealing copper eavestroughing and downspouts from churches and old buildings. I'm pretty sure I heard something about beer kegs, too. Anyone else hear that, too?

Haven't heard about the beer kegs but I'm not suprised, in Baltimore they have a problem with people cutting down the aluminum streetlight poles for scrap value. At our cottage we had a galvanized steel farm gate for the driveway that had not been closed for a couple years since the insurance company now requires us to keep the driveway plowed year round, sometime in the spring someone boosted it presumably for scrap.