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Morning Brew: Explosion Cleanup, Krumping Cops, and Free Agency
Photo: "getting hose down" by asianz, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.
What's happening in the GTA (and sometimes beyond):
Both the Gardiner and DVP will be shut down from 2am to 2pm on Sunday. The take home message? The 401 will be terrible. Forget about Lakeshore Blvd. Bloor will be nasty. Jarvis will suck. Make plans that don't involve driving. Hopping into Monday morning traffic after being stuck in it on your leisurely Sunday will really hurt.
It's been almost a year, but finally an action plan is getting a kick start to clean up the site of the propane explosion that rocked a north Toronto neighbourhood. Expediency clearly isn't the city's forte.
The jury has made its decision - not guilty. Freedom and a cleared name are being granted to the woman who stood accused of murdering her lesbian lover's boyfriend with an axe. Were an axe not involved, I wonder if we would have seen much if any media coverage on this love triangle murder story.
poppin' vs. krumpin'
Toronto police and local college students are helping keep kids out of trouble - through krumping classes. Krumping (which differs from poppin - see above video for direct comparison) puts them in a safe environment under the supervision of positive role models, gets them free food, and makes them so much cooler when it comes time to strut their stuff at high school dances. Hopefully not to music made up of sampled gun-cocking sounds.
Hate your job? Consider yourself one of the 91.6% Canadians that are lucky enough have one. Unemployment is at an 11-year high, with Ontario taking the brunt of job losses.
And Raptor's superstar Chris Bosh appears to be leaning toward free agency in 2010. Is he looking to leverage himself for a sweetened new contract with Toronto, or is he outta here?
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Was coverage heavy on this trial? This is the first I've heard of it that I can recall. But how could the media resist a lesbian axe murder story?
DO NOT FALL TO THEIR LEVEL
"So I married an Axe murderer" or something like that ?
I expect fox 'news' to run a segment on axe wielding killer lesbians.
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"She told authorities she went to take a shower and emerged from the bathroom about 20 minutes later to find his naked body filled with wounds, an axe lying by the bed.
But when police found both her hair and her shower weren't wet, they decided to take a closer look. "
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I just had a shower but the tub isn't wet.
Righhhhhhht.
There are also witnesses who heard the two ladies talking about killing him.
Yet a not guilty verdict.
Righhhhhhht.
It'd be great if police videotaped their arrival at a crime scene like this. There would be good clues - her body language, her demeanor, proof the tub was dry, her hair was dry, etc etc.
Were an axe not involved; dry, very dry. Hilarious :)
Insurance complanies should clean up the residential issues and subrogate against the city to get whatever dollars back they can (usually cents on the dollar) out of cuntomer service.
Seems like a worthy reason to me to inconvenience drivers for a few hours.
The Gardiner / DVP may only be closed for 12 hours, but there are 2 million people in this city. This means that the roads will be unavailable to the citizens of this city for 24 million person hours! This is more than 2700 years.
I am aghast that Miller and his left wing thugs want to close down the Gardiner for close to 3000 years.
I went to the zoo last weekend and they had a charity walk where the participants stopped at stations to play games. I participated in a 5k charity walk a few years ago and I felt almost silly asking people to sponsor me for walking around Ontario Place for a day.
I understand that they want to get people involved but why not just ask for the money or run a marathon where it is at least
the task is challenging.
It turns out that getting more people involved is a great way to do that.
I don't think I can fault them for that.
Regardless, the latest census data puts Toronto's population at 2.5 million.
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