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Morning Brew: May 16th, 2008
Photo: "Toronto Sunset" by iliaa, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.
Your Toronto morning news roundup for Friday May 16th, 2008:
Steal a hummer and drive it over a police car as you attempt your getaway. What sounds like a common feat in GTA IV actually happened yesterday in Markham. Three young men face a slew of charges. Perhaps they should get a hotshot lawyer to blame it on the game.
Increasing fuel costs may lead to another TTC fare increase next year. At $2.85 per ride, it had better come with a shoe shine and a smile, or else the Toronto transit riders union will be forced to strike without warning at 11pm on a Friday night, forcing drivers to not have to deal with the annoyances and dangers that come with the job. In other news, the TTC is proud to announce that the system should be fully wheelchair accessible by 2017 (three years ahead of previous estimates).
Toronto tourism is a joke. What better way is there to give it a boost than to appoint world-renown comedian Russell Peters a global ambassador to Toronto? Pardon my pessimism, but cracking jokes about Toronto in London and Moscow seems like less likely a successful strategy than, say, improving our city and making more attractive a place for tourists to come and enjoy themselves.
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It's Victoria Day long weekend! Because the weather forecast looks miserable, we'll likely want to buy and do stuff around the city on Monday. Here's a summary of what's open and what's closed.
A Toronto nursing home has been reprimanded for unacceptable conduct and is tentatively barred from taking on new residents. When a resident is choked to death by a restraining device, you know something isn't quite right at "Leisureworld".
Tobacco retailers in Ontario have just 2 weeks remaining to comply with new provincial laws that force them to eliminate cigarette displays. Will hiding smokes from view in stores reduce the number of people that light up? Will a pack-a-day smoker forget to buy them if they're not in view? It'll be interesting to see the effect this new law has.
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Oh - and I, too, want to improve <em>or</em> city (but not both)!
"Police said the suspects jumped into a Hummer and then drove over the hood of a police cruiser. The vehicle travelled up the windshield before falling off.
Then the Hummer hit another car in the street before it reversed into a second police cruiser and then continued driving on the sidewalk running over a foot patrol cop, 2 drug dealers and a prostitute.
An APB was put out and brought the situation to a 3 STAR crisis in where more squad cars were dispatched and a helicopter. The chase ended when their vehical was too destroyed to drive"
FTW
Try not to be to positive this Friday morning !
<a href="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b130/Sublime52596/married%20to%20the%20sea/nature-fight.gif";>nature fight</a>
I don't know if you realize, but in GTAIV you can actually pick your shoes, watch TV in your apartment (or limo), and obviously, leave said apartment. In that what you said actually can be done in-game.
I know your point, but the unintentional irony of it I couldn't help but point out.
Can't wait another set of cheesy photos in the "Toronto Portraits" section. :)
Oops. Asking too much.
I don't think you're asking too much. Not enough of us are asking.