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Morning Brew: Machine Gun Sting, Condo Queue Fight, MLSE Ad Cleanup Ultimatum, Toronto Island Waiting List Lottery, Grizzly's Near Escape
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What's happening in the GTA (and sometimes beyond):
The TTC is now saying that riders can pay just $2.25 (the discounted bulk token price) if collector booths have run out of temporary tickets to sell. Finally, they're playing fair on fares!
Three men in Mississauga have been arrested after allegedly selling undercover police officers a machine gun and 100 rounds of ammo. How much it was sold for hasn't been disclosed, but I'm willing to bet that these three figured it was worth the risk. Life changes quickly for these guys.
Real estate agents who'd formed two queues dueled over who had first crack at pre-sale units in a 44-storey luxury condo at Jarvis and Charles, set for occupancy in 2013. Anger was spewing after those who'd waited just 10 hours got ahead of others who'd waited 10 days. Like their tempers, the market appears to remain hot, hot, hot enough!
In pro sports, spirit is not everything - winning is. But it appears that Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment have set themselves up for losing off the ice (while their team is abysmal on the ice). MLSE are going to have to act quickly on a City ultimatum to clear our sidewalks of their spray painted illegal ad campaign within 24h or get the bill when the City hires someone to do it for them. In related news, fans also think that MLSE are being unfair by charging too much to watch such a poorly performing team.
It's been about a month since the hand-held device while driving ban came into effect, and the OPP have issued 1,109 warnings and 22 actual tickets for the infraction (despite having previously announced a three-month grace period on ticketing). Some believe that the law has made things more dangerous in some instances, because those who continue to tap away on their phones are now doing it with their devices hidden from view in their laps. Are you still texting while driving?
People hoping to one day live on the Toronto Islands, vying for a chance to be added to the end of a waiting list 500 names long, have applied for a lottery. 31 spots at the end of the waiting list are open, hundreds will apply for the lottery to be put on the list, and then they'll likely never get onto the island during their lifetime because only one or two properties usually get sold in a given year. That $110 fee for the lottery application would be better spent on visiting via ferry rides.
And Samson the grizzly bear nearly got out of his confines at the Toronto Zoo. Staff are insisting that his 35-year old cage be replaced, and are threatening to refuse to work if it's not. Maybe they should spend less money trying to woo the pandas and more on properly keeping bears that already call the zoo home.
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What jackwad would wait in a line for that??
Are the developers so charitable that they'd be giving away underpriced sure-thing condos? This is hysteria a la 1 Bloor East, not sensible investing.
I'd like to know why the agents who had lined up before for 10 days had paper signs that said "unfair". The whole thing seems suspect to me.
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Probably because they used these awesome new inventions called "cell phones" to call their "offices" and have someone there make a "sign" and bring it to them.
If he gets the boot like I did is going to be an interesting year at the Courts in 2010.
I blew the whistle at the City Hall and Mr Hale fired me . At the ZOO we have a Toxic Work Environement. See the following link:
http://bit.ly/8KA7AZ I made my deputation to the Ontario Goverment now they can hide their faces any longer behind some lawyer.
Here is the full story of the Grizzly Affair:
http://bit.ly/8ctlVw
Anyway, here are two simple rules to live by when it comes to real estate:
1. When there's a line-up to buy, make sure you're the seller.
2. When there's a line-up to sell, make sure you're the buyer.
Don't be a sucker!
Plus if you can afford an assistant to run down and provide you a copy, you'd be paying them to stand in line for 10 days instead of yourself.
ALL of them had them. And I would assume they weren't all from the same office.
Plus if you can afford an assistant to run down and provide you a copy, you'd be paying them to stand in line for 10 days instead of yourself.
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OMG I just heard there was this cool new thing called a "printer" and when you use this thing, you can ask it to print out more than one of whatever it is you're printing out. So you can get it to print out 1 OR 50! Isn't that awesome!
And then when you get your assistant or buddy or wife or husband to bring you these "printouts" you can hand them out to everybody else in line with you. Then magically - get this - EVERYONE HAS THE SAME SIGN!!!!!!!!!11111!!!111!!!1!1!
But of course, this is all obviously impossible, since I'm not convinced these "printer" things even exist. Or at least, ones that can print more than 1 of anything. I'm going on google right now. Wish me luck.