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Morning Brew: April 18th, 2008
Photo: "DSC_0559" by blogTO Flickr pooler Louis Tam.
Your Toronto morning news roundup for Friday April 18th, 2008:
How valuable is information about organized crime? An ex-Hell's Angels biker is taking home a $450,000 pay cheque for 18 months of work as a mole/agent with the OPP. History has proven that the war on drugs isn't cheap.
Go, Rami! The illegalsigns.ca activist scored a couple of big victories that will hopefully force the city to firm up and clarify laws related to advertising in public space, and force advertisers to comply with the laws on billboard advertising.
Worst headline ever (ok, maybe not ever, but worst of the day for sure)!
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If you have a car, fill your gas tank now. Prices for gas are at about $1.20 today, and are projected to continue to rise into the summer and eclipse the all-time high. The timing isn't ideal, what with a TTC strike potentially in effect, come Monday.
The CBC reports that Torstar is cutting 160 jobs in its newspaper division, including 122 positions at the Toronto Star. According to CTV, their entire Internet production staff are being let go as well. Apparently many are leaving "voluntarily." Is that another way of saying "laid off with decent severance," or do people actually want to leave and find new jobs?
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No thanks. Aint no amount worth that, because when they do kill you, it will be surely slow and painful.
Agreed. Not a job I'd likely take at any price. I'm curious though... did this guy negotiate such a high wage, or is this standard?
"drought"...are you kidding me?
At some newspapers, they give writers bonuses for coming up with golden headlines like that ;)
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Whaddya expect? It's from the same people who print the Sun family of news(?)papers. That's the sort of thing they specialise in. As well as columnists like Worthington, Levy, and Coren to name a few. The same paper had a photographer who sexually assaulted the Sunshine girls a number of years back.
The right-wing press is dying on Toronto. Just look at what's left of the National Post. The Sun used to advertise as the "little paper that grew". Now they don't because the circulation--like the National Pest's--is in steady decline.
But a cheeky dumb headline's a real eye grabber so it's fit for print.
So,that's all right then, innit?
"Yasser-ee!"