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Morning Brew: H1N1 Updates, Buckhorn Santa to Miss Christmas, Ici Bistro Wins Liquor License, Steeles Avenue to get Repaved
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What's happening in the GTA (and sometimes beyond):
H1N1:
- another Toronto hospital has an outbreak (11 patients, 5 staff affected)
- people are starting to line up outside vaccination clinics at 4am
- family doctors are angered by the slow delivery of vaccine
- health officials are warning that delivery will slow in the coming weeks
- the idea of opening 24/7 clinics is not likely to become reality
- Twitter hashtag for sharing info about wait times is #TOfluline
Other news:
Ho ho ho. What's your bra size, little girl? Santa (the one near Peterborough, not the head honcho at the North Pole) will not be able to visit the children for Christmas this year, after being sentenced to 134 days in prison and 12 months probation for sexual-related offenses.
Sorry, Pantalone. You should choose your battles more wisely. After a lengthy fight, Ici Bistro in the Annex will be getting their liquor license after all... as they should!
The city is vowing to fix the ongoing problem that is Steeles Avenue. After gaining top bottom honours rating again in the CAA's worst roads in Ontario poll, $15million will be invested to repave a huge portion of it by 2011.
And despite losing lots of money, the National Post will likely not cease operations today. It's expected that the paper will be consolidated with the rest of CanWest's newspaper holdings allowing it to continue publishing.
And have fun and be safe out there tomorrow night! Happy Halloween!
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So the DM's solution for preventing an area from become seedier is to make it difficult for respectable restaurants to do business?
It sets a precident alright. Other respectable restaurants (and even other types of business) will think twice before trying to move into the area because it wouldn't be worth the effort (and the $$$) if something like this were to happen again.
What a fantastic plan you have to improve the neighbourhood Pantalone! Your actions have certainly helped improve the community and is a completely responsible way to treat business owners who have done nothing wrong. I'm sure all the money and time spent fighting this restaurant (and the residents in the area) was worth it, because really, look at all this has accomplished.(/sarcasm)
Not too far down the road is Splendido, one of the most respected restaurants in the city. I don't think anyone is going to claim that it has set a precident for seedy behavior in the area. Honestly Pantalone, what the hell were you thinking?
Where was yesterday's Morning Brew? That is the thing to wake me up in the morning.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/29/crtc-globalive-wind-mobile-cellphone.html
On GSM? Expect your bill to rise, because where else are you going to go?
I am beyond pissed -- how this benefits Canadians is a mystery to me.
1) The CRTC decision is dumb, but probably in sync with the rules they are supposed to follow
2) Globalive should have seen this coming
3) The Globalive CEO is hot.
The problem is it has NEVER had a solid business case. Conrad Black started it as a vanity project and splashed out on pricey writers, etc. Then CanWest picked it up for a song, but that didn't mean it would suddenly become profitable. They really need to rethink the model, because in no way is it financially sustainable.
I'm glad one government organization can make a decent decision, now we just have to work on the CRTC.
Is Harbord & Manning part of The Annex? Really?
In other news 10 new Walmarts opened yesterday.
I agree with all of your arguments about why the Post is destined to fail, but I have to nitpick with the notion that CanWest picked it up for a song. In fact, the opposite was true - CanWest paid way too much for it, which was ironic given his reputation for picking up assets on the cheap.
Izzy Asper, in wanting to use the Post as a cornerstone to his media empire, paid top dollar for a paper that Conrad was desperate to sell because he couldn't afford to keep propping it up. CanWest, had to further gut the paper just so they could (barely) manage the debt they had taken on to buy it. The Post from day one was bleeding money and having major trouble attracting ad revenue, especially in competitive markets like Toronto (where the Globe, the Star and even the Sun were pummelling it) and this was back when the economy was flying high - I can only imagine how bad it is now.
even T & T grocery stores know how to give out number at cold cut section to avoid line up.. hello? anybody home? not that hard? can these people waiting to be vaccinated be prioritized based on OHIP number??? jesus..
It's not clear how Canadians gain from having a limited number o Canadian companies screwing us over. The CRTC should not ignore the efficiency and competition aspects of their mandate, and the feds should simply remove the foreign ownership restriction from the Telecommunciations Act. It's not helping Canadians.
Write your MP.
Personally, I would love to see a well-capitalized cellphone company get into this market and offer up some real competition and force these bums to offer up the types of plans, features and devices that are taken for granted in most of the world.