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Morning Brew: October 10th, 2007
Photo: "Fall colours High Park" by blogTO Flickr pooler petedubeau.
Your morning news roundup for Wedneday October 10th, 2007:
It's Provincial Election day, and many media outlets are wondering why Toronto's Mayor has been silent and why funding for cities never became a prominent election issue. Instead of fighting hard down the home stretch, Miller waited until the last minute and rather vaguely advised that we "look at our local candidates."
A Hells Angels biker is taking a Vaughan strip club to court after a security officer on their hire shot and wounded him. If the biker wins the $1.1million lawsuit, he may still walk with a limp but he'll have some sweet new leather tassels and a killer ride.
Violent and abrupt storms have contributed to relatively dry and rather devastating conditions for trees in the GTA. The city's forestry department has been forced to forgo regular maintenance to respond to emergency calls, and their budget is creating further woes.
Someone shot pepper spray in an east end school yesterday, prompting an evacuation.
Veterans aren't happy after the mayor quickly curbed the suggestion that we rename the DVP the "Veteran's Memorial Parkway". Isn't there a classier way to honour our war dead instead of renaming roads?
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Oh God, thank you Miller for quickly curbing that idea. Let's stop with the America Jr. suggestions please... yuck.
It's also kind of telling that none of the candidates have made a commitment to funding to Toronto (save McGuinty's half-hearted "funding for cities" in this morning's Star).
From the linked article:
"The DVP also has a special significance because it serves as the final leg of all fallen soldiers? journeys from Canadian Forces Base Trenton to the Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto."
What is the special significance about that?
"?Everybody knows the DVP. Why? Because we hear it on radio, we hear it on television, we read it in our newspapers and we talk about it. What better artery to rename to bring people?s minds to the fact that veterans have served?...
...The province has already renamed the stretch of the 401 between Trenton and Toronto as the ?Highway of Heroes.?"
I don't think I've ever heard "Highway of Heroes" on the radio, on TV, from talking to someone nor have I read it in the newspaper or even seen it when driving on the highway.
As for Miller, his response was weak and pathetic just like his tenure as Mayor has been. He has grand visions for Toronto, but he lacks the leadership and integrity that would help to get things accomplished. For all of his complaining that the provincial government should step-up and assume the costs downloaded to cities and to support transit he did not make it a major issue during the election. I guess he was too busy closing community centres and trying to bully councilors to follow his plan.