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Morning Brew: May 14th, 2008
Photo: "Flashback" by Proliphic, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.
Your Toronto morning news roundup for Wednesday May 14th, 2008:
A Queen's Park monument honouring fallen firefighters was vandalized by a jackass who thought it was an appropriate canvas on which to paint politically-fueled statements. Where do people get the idea that defacing public property is an acceptable form of protest?
The Toronto Zoo is taking heat for its decision to open their new stingray exhibit, despite the recent, tragic, unexplained death of a large number of stingrays in a similar exhibit at a Calgary zoo. Unless we have a persistent, traveling stingray poisoner on the loose, do we really need to be concerned about opening the Toronto exhibit?
The Toronto District School Board is mulling the idea of banning the sale of single-use plastic water bottles. It's an idea I can enthusiastically get behind.
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The city is considering a push to have more local and sustainable food served at its daycares, shelters, and seniors residences. Critics are concerned about the costs of doing so, which seems like a counter-intuitive worry (shouldn't locally produced ingredients cost less?). Until being "green" doesn't come with any financial drawbacks, we're not so likely to be all that green, are we?
Hopefully thieves watch the news, and have even the slightest good in them to return one item in particular. Amongst the many items stolen during a home break-in was a pendant containing the ashes or an Ajax couple's infant son.
The Great One has quashed rumours that he'll be dropping his stake in Phoenix to take on a new role as president of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Wayne Gretzky clearly sets high standards, folks. Don't fall for ridiculous rumours.
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I'm sure one of them will hear about the stingrays and potentially copycat the Calgary incident.
If they're going to go ahead with the exhibit, I sure hope they have security on staff at all times until we know more about what caused the Calgary deaths.
Sick pigs everywhere.
From all the thousands of other pieces of graffiti around the city.
#1 ban water bottles!!! woo hoo!!!!
#2 Local food! WOO HOO
We need to take responsibility for the impact of how we live our lives, and specifically, how we eat. Both of these initiatives are aimed at children... if we can set their habits now, then perhaps we have a chance at reducing the sheer waste of resources linked to how we currently eat/drink.
Gretzky would never work with the Maple Leafs. Then again, his wife could lose a bet.
All those who died or with serious injuries? Yup. No seatbelts. The driver of the responsible car survived with only a sprained ankle (he was buckled up of course).
I still don't understand how some people are against seatbelts and/or seatbelt laws.
Even the old ladies in my office were mentioning it
I think you answered your own question :)
Calgary is not the first place to have such a tank. They exist at other zoos and aquariums and this water problem is not consistent with the tank. I don't know why people are acting like Toronto would have anything more in common with Calgary than Monterey or any other location.
Re Gretzky...
Why would we -want- him? He did lead Canada to gold in 2002, but failed to get a medal in 2006. And the Coyotes are abysmal. Toronto needs to stop going for brand recognition and get someone actually -good-.
Probably from Torontoist, which runs weekly articles praising vandalism and graffiti.
Yeah, how dare you to take away the option of the mix of H2O with toxins that seep into the water from plastic!
Last time I heard Ontario schools had running water...
Praising not very good graffiti mind you.
Yeah, how dare you to take away the option of the mix of H2O with toxins that seep into the water from plastic!
Last time I heard Ontario schools had running water..."
My point precisely, schools have running water, and parents can chose to send what they want with lunches... I chose organic milk or organic soy milk.
"Hormones in milk are of great public concern, especially rBGH (Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone), the genetically engineered form of the hormone BST (Bovine Somatotropin). However, growth hormones such as BST and rBGH are not legal for use in Canada with dairy cows and thus are not really an issue in terms of milk consumption within Canada."