Morning Brew: January 16th, 2008
Photo: "The Birdman of Union Station" by blogTO Flickr pooler Jon ..
Your morning news roundup for Wednesday January 16th, 2008:
The Toronto Stock Exchange is taking a dip, as investors sell off crude oil and bank stocks. Apparently gold is where it's at, folks. Mr.T says "I told you so!" (fool).
GO Transit unveiled to the media its new, faster train yesterday. In what can only be described as no surprise, it pulled up 18-minutes late. Maybe they had to stall their arrival because Dalton, who was playing conductor, was so excited to be fulfilling his childhood fantasy that he had to take a number two.
One day, if all goes well, Toronto may rely less on new coal plants by adding to our single (token) wind-generated energy turbine. A controversial ban on offshore wind-generated power is expected to be lifted.
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In the wake of a scathing report on school safety, a student was stabbed at a Brampton high school. A quick lockdown is thought to have worked in the authorities' favour, and a suspect was quickly in custody.
Police are appealing to the public, in response to concerns that there may be several more sex slaves being hidden in the GTA. This is one rather sickening story, and cops are feeling somewhat powerless in their ability to find these people given the circumstances.
York University's wounds haven't yet healed from the shocking sexual assault incidents that occurred in September, and they may be once again dealing with a sexual predator.
Comments (5)
GO Transit's new engine was "18 minutes late"?
Considering the fact that GO promised that the new engines would go into service in November '07, and now we're told it won't be until March '08, I'd say they're four months late.
@Jerrold
He's hip with it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZd1Js0QaOI He's obviously a Kanye West fan.
The rape isn't the only incident at York in the past week, there was also an assault on a staff member who was questioning three suspicious people in hoodies and at least one robbery. The student paper has a bunch of articles in their Jan 16th issue: http://www.excal.on.ca/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&task=archives&id=67
Personally, before this and quite recently I'd actually been noticing just being around campus that it seemed as if there were more groups of people who didn't appear to be students at all, and some who most definitely were not and were around in crews specifically to hang around dealing drugs.
Police presence is a crappy idea but until our security actually has more rather than less power than the average person, it does feel like safety is something that fluctuates entirely on the whims of criminals.
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