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Morning Brew: police officer shot in training facility, survivor of scaffolding collapse suing the Province, bed bug solution may be heat, ski hills saved for now, left-handed menus at Chili's
A Toronto police officer was whisked away by EMS from a 22 Division training facility in Etobicoke yesterday after reportedly being accidentally shot in the leg. All we know is that he wasn't shot by anyone else, but police wouldn't confirm whether or not he accidentally shot himself. The details might be embarrassing, but does that make them worth hiding?
Dilshod Marupov, the sole survivor of the tragic scaffolding collapse that killed four fellow workers on Christmas Eve of 2009, is suing the Ontario Ministry of Labour and the companies involved for over $16 million. This news comes shortly after the Ministry of Labour laid 61 charges against the companies under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. Citing their failure to ensure worker safety, Marupov seeks compensation for his extensive injuries and pain.
The explosion of bed bug cases here in Toronto (and around the developed world) may be in part due to the banning of the harmful pesticide DDT way back in the 1970s. The bug sure is resilient, but there's a chemical-free way to kill them. Applying high temperatures will do the trick, but comes at a high cost and isn't something you want to do on your own unless you don't mind visits from the fire department.
Urban ski hills at Centennial Park and Earl Bales Park will continue to operate this coming winter. The City has decided to dedicate a combined $500,000 to funding them, after calls for private companies to take over their operations went unanswered.
And the owner of international restaurant Chili's Grill and Bar up in Vaughan (their only location in Ontario) is reaching out to southpaws by creating menus that cater to left-handed people. About 10% of patrons favour their left over their right, and of those 10% I'm willing to wager that very few care at all about having to reach over the cover to open a standard menu.
Photo: "Centennial Hill // 01" by Christie Photography, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.
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Because it doesn't affect the public and therefore has no reason to be plastered all over the papers. If you worked in an office, would it be fair if the newspapers put up a headline announcing that you forgot your TPS report one day? (If you screwed up and caused the company shares to drop 30%, then that would be a different story for example)
Just because people around here hate the police, doesn't mean individuals should be subjected to ridicule over private events that don't affect you in the slightest.
Most definitely certain, relevant aspects of the job should be put forward for scrutiny, but this isn't one of them.
http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/2008/05/15/ddt-resistance-once-more-with-tables-and-sources/
wtf are you talking about? It happened YESTERDAY
Yeah, taking more than 24 hours to investigate is so outrageous
YES THEY MUST BE HIDING SOMETHING JUICY FROM BLOGTO'S CRACK JOURNALIST COMMANDOS
The <b>operating budget</b> is basically cash from taxes and other city fees. This goes towards maintaining facilities, paying wages, etc. The cost of maintaining the ski hills comes from this.
Then you have the <b>capital budget</b>. This is for future investments and is mostly comprised of 'future' cash. The cost of building the hockey rink comes from this. The big difference is that the high value of things like the hockey rink are offset by their potential value. Take the TTC for example. If it costs $100 Million to expand a subway line, the city would calculate how much income they would get from increased ticket sales, rent from vendors, advertising, etc. They'd also calculate the costs of maintaining this line, staff and most importantly, the interest that they'd have to pay the banks back. Because, unlike the operating budget, the money for the capital budget comes from borrowed money under the assumption that the investment would pay back all, more or at least most of the difference in cost.
They are two very different things. You wouldn't be able to pay someone's wage from the capital budget anymore than you'd be able to pay for an ice rink up front out of the operating budget.
You must be voting Rob Ford for mayor.