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Morning Brew: March 31st, 2008

Posted by Jerrold
Filed in City
March 31, 2008

kensington market apples Photo: "Apples" by blogTO Flickr pooler andyscamera.

Your morning news roundup for Monday March 31st, 2008:

Earth Hour turned into Earth Sunday for a number of residents in the south end of the downtown core. Multiple power line failures left them without electricity all through the night. It's a great excuse to be late for work this morning, but likely a significant disturbance to routine (cold showers and convenience store coffee for all!).

With the help of an observant mall security guard, police busted a pervert who was shooting cell phone upskirts of unsuspecting school girls in the Eaton Centre. Link to his panty-laden web site after the jump...

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Police have also made an arrest in the callous Lawrence Heights shooting case which employed chilling video posted to Youtube and various media outlets. A second suspect is still being sought.

There's talk of changing the legal age for drinking alcohol to 21 in Ontario. Expect condemnation of the suggestion to come from LCBO executives any day now. At the same time, the federal government continues with its witch hunt on less harmful, non-regulated drugs, while more or less eliminating harm reduction from the equation.

When are impenetrable walls of an armoured car not an asset? When one flips over on the highway and people inside are injured and inaccessible to rescue crews.

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Jerr, you have a typo in your first sentence. Do you mean 'number of residents?'

Posted by: Ryan L. at March 31, 2008 8:07 AM

Thanks for pointing that out, Ryan. Fixed.

Posted by: Jerrold at March 31, 2008 8:10 AM

So they'd let us vote before we drink? Absurd.

Posted by: Gloria at March 31, 2008 8:35 AM

@Gloria: American here... and having lived it, I can safely say it is positively absurd. Here's hoping Ontario never gets there.

Posted by: Lauren at March 31, 2008 8:41 AM

21 drinking age - similar rumblings in Ireland (currently 18)

I honestly don't think that anybody who starts drinking at 19 is involved in trouble. Kids in their early teens are drinking in Ontario and unless and until this is dealt with an increase in the drinking age would be nothing short of pandering to older demographics - the ones who cast votes.

Posted by: Mark Dowling at March 31, 2008 9:46 AM

"Police have also made an arrest in the callous Lawrence Heights shooting case..."

As opposed to the not callous Lawrence Heights shooting?

Posted by: Sigh at March 31, 2008 10:47 AM

This is bull. I think I started drinking at 16, and it's probably no different today. Like Mark said, it's total pandering.

Posted by: Adam at March 31, 2008 12:02 PM

Yes, it was especially callous. The guy walked up and emptied his gun into 6 people.

Posted by: Jerrold at March 31, 2008 2:55 PM