Morning Brew: October 10th, 2008

Vote Conservative and the vandal will be tar/feathered; vote Liberal/NDP and he'll be given a stern warning after they figure out the social problems that led him to do such acts.

Ya gotta let CityTV off for this, cuz Andrea Piunno is so damned cute! (I'm still amazed blogTO uses CityTV as "reliable" news source.

I heard the guy on CP24 state "first brought to you by blogto"

So the dollar is down vs the us and oil is falling. How are these not benefits for the manufacturing sector that has been taking a beating over the last year?

If on CP24 on TV they were saying "first brought to you by blogTO" then why on CityNews were they waving the "exclusive" banner?

CP24 is CTVglobemedia and CityNews is Rogers. Perhaps this has something to do with the discrepancies.

That's strange. Yesterday, the CP24 coverage said: "video courtesy of blogTO."

Ah well, it's all about selling stories these days anyways. Screw them. (except Melissa Grelo. She's smokin'.)

CTV always gives credit where credit is due. City? not so much.

that photo is bittersweet. tell me that kid is only trying out the wheelchair.

Kenny, I missed the part where the Liberals wouldn't punish crime.
Oh, you made that up? Ok.

Re: Stroller

It says she was crossing University Ave. I wonder if the accident was related to the ridiculously short east-west signal?

The Post story isn't clear on this, but according to the Star the only charge Clumsy Mom is facing is a $50 jaywalking ticket. So no scary trial there.

On another note, City and CP24 have different owners? Really? That's pretty weird.

Several years ago I was driving east on Ste. Catherine Street in Montreal when a pedestrian just a few feet ahead of me decided she was going to cross in the middle of the street.

She stepped off the curb, but she did stop between two parked cars to wait for me to pass. Unfortunately, when she stopped the stroller she was pushing was left sitting right in front of my car.

I hit the brakes so hard that all four tires smoked (this was an older car with no anti-lock thingies). The car behind me did the same, and also spun sideways, narrowly missing a third car in the next lane.

My front bumper stopped just a foot away from the baby's face. The baby burst into tears. Her mother screamed at me in French for making her baby cry.

She probably still thinks none of this was her fault.

"So the dollar is down vs the us and oil is falling. How are these not benefits for the manufacturing sector that has been taking a beating over the last year?"

Oil is lower because the economic downturn means there will be less demand for it because economies won't continue to grow at the same rate. That means there'll also be less demand for manufactured goods. The oil/dollar thing will help bottom lines in the short term, but it won't result in more manufacturing returning or being started up in Canada.

When CityTV were outside the restaurant, they credited BlogTO for posting the first video. I think the 'exclusive' banner was for when they went back the second day and recorded new footage of a rat in the window.

On a side note, it is unfortunate that many responses to the original post contained hateful and racist comments. A story like this broke into the mainstream media from BlogTO and so many new visiters would have read that original blog post... only to see such terrible comments. I've been reading for a while and I know that BlogTO and its readers arn't always like this... but new readers wouldn't know that.

Just my thoughts...