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Morning Brew: September 19th, 2007
Photo: "bike" by blogTO Flickr pooler reasoning.
Your morning news roundup for Wednesday September 19th, 2007:
Our loonie is at a its highest in over 30 years, finishing yesterday at 98.64 US. While there may be some good deals to be had on Ebay.com, the skyrocketing Canadian dollar has some rather grave consequences including job losses here in Toronto.
The debate over administering the HPV vaccine (which aims to prevent infection that causes 70% of all cervical cancer and 90% of genital warts) in Catholic schools in Halton is over. By a narrow margin, the motion to ban the treatment was defeated. If youngsters in Catholic schools in Halton (or in any schools for that matter) are anything like those where I grew up...
A Mississagua woman is red-faced and out 500 smackeroos. She admits to having been swindled in a scam that had her sending cash to Nigeria so that they could transport a "free puppy" to her.
Howard Moscoe is reviving an old idea of his - free TTC for one year for anyone who buys a condo along the subway lines. A even better idea might be to give out free one month TTC passes to commuters to encourage them to make the switch.
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Hopefully Anita Hagerman can find comfort in one of my all time favourite websites <a href="http://www.419eater.com/"; target="_blank">The 419 Eater</a>, dedicated to scambaiting (that's scamming the scammers for ya!).
F**in' religious whack jobs. This treatment was available over 3 years ago and it was held up by the religious right and creeps like "Dr." James Dobson. The number of women who have died of cervical cancer from that time til now are on thier heads. This treatment prevents cancer, but they don't want to give the treatment to girls because they think it's promoting sex?! I'm sorry, I din't realize the year was 1467.
Give the girls the treatment. If it saves them from getting cancer, this should have never even been up for debate.
"The Bishops of Ontario regret its introduction without further opportunity for thorough study," the statement said.
Translation: He regrets that they can't stall on this any longer.
Public funding = co-operation with public health initiatives. Don't like it? There's the door to the private sector.
Giving them away will only overcrowd the current commuting infrastructure at today's levels of service.
The last thing we need is even *less* space left in the same number and frequency of crush-capacity filled subway cars.