Morning Brew: January 31st, 2008

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Your morning news roundup for Thursday January 31st, 2008:

According to the Toronto District School Board's director of education, not only should we consider opening a black-focused school (amid much controversy)... we should consider opening many. In my opinion, someone needs to slow this whole process down, and do a comprehensive study with the students to ensure that this is what they want.

Intentionally dropping your empty 8oz coffee cup in the stairwell of the mall is rather poor etiquette. Leaving your 8 month old baby in the stairwell of the mall is heinous and criminal.

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Brace yourselves - were going to get a winter storm walloping tonight/tomorrow. It's not too late to get rid of those highly compromised "all-season" tires and make the switch to the far more effective winter/summer rubber swap method.

Cutting down oxygen-generating city trees for a convenience or esthetic reason is unacceptable and an act worthy of prosecution and high fines. But when the city rejects a request to approve removal of a tree that's essentially destroying someone's house, what is the homeowner to do?

A routine traffic stop in Scarborough may have uncovered an international debit card scam that was seeing funds from British bank accounts illegally transferred to the Tamil Tigers. Sometimes the authorities get lucky.

In sports news, the Buffalo Bills have inked a deal with Toronto, and will play a total of 8 NFL games here (3 preseason, and 5 real deal) over the next 5 years. We may not have any hope of ever getting our own team, but at least the diehard fans can spare themselves the drive and visit to beautiful Buffalo.

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My God, they need the city council to vote on TREE REMOVAL? Isn't this something city works (or a similar body) ought to concern themselves with, not councillors?

I can't imagine that the council was able to even properly review his case, since they're apparently involved in even the smallest decision-making processes of the city.

Posted by: Gloria at January 31, 2008 8:50 AM

Ugh. Is there any good news today? The best of the bunch being the Bills in Toronto, but I've heard that the tickets could far higher then they are in Buffalo. It seems the spirit of MSLE leeches it's way into all pro sports in this city.

As for the segregated schools... I just don't know where to begin with that. It's a sad state, for sure.

Posted by: serotonin at January 31, 2008 9:15 AM

How can you leave a child in a stairwell. There are some horrible people out there.

"The Bills have been seeking to expand into the southern Ontario market, which has a fan base of more than five million people compared to 1.25 million in western New York."

The move makes sense to me, I don't know why they wouldn't go through with more than a few games a year.

Debit card frauding has been rampant lately in Toronto, it's good to see some action taking place against it. My friend lost $700 after he took money out when he was downtown, luckily the frauder took the money only minutes after so he probably will get it back.


Posted by: Dennis M at January 31, 2008 9:50 AM

I'm not opposed to the idea of Afro-centric schools, I just haven't yet heard how it's supposed to help... how is teaching black culture and history affect high school drop out rates?

Posted by: Pat at January 31, 2008 10:12 AM

My concern would be that considering the majority (not all, we're told) of the teachers will be African-Canadian, this will dilute yet further the small A-C teacher cohort in the rest of the system. For one school it might not make a significant difference, but more than one might do, in the short term.

Posted by: Mark Dowling at January 31, 2008 12:38 PM

let's just make sure that people living around jane and finch pay for the blacks school via their property tax

Posted by: Jack at January 31, 2008 5:50 PM

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