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Morning Brew: Doug Ford talks casinos and subways, the TTC is now more customer friendly, RIM's job fair, and what's up with the old Loblaws warehouse?
Doug Ford is back at it. This time, the city councillor proposes creating a lottery or a casino in his Etobicoke ward that would help pay for the Sheppard subway extension. (However, the OLG chairman, Paul Godfrey, has apparently already nixed the lottery option). With just a few more days to pull together funding options for the subway plan, Ford is challenging his peers to "think outside the box" because his brother will be "pushing up tulips" before he revives the car tax option.
The TTC's got a new Twitter handle and new customer service hours as of yesterday. TTC customer representatives are now available from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week (instead of the impractical hours of 8 - 5 on weekdays only) and if you're more of a Tweeter, you can reach them at @TTChelps.
Sure, RIM has had its challenges lately, but there's no other direction but to go but up, right? At least that was the attitude of hopeful job seekers at the tech company's career fair at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre yesterday. RIM is looking to fill 600 positions.
A Ryerson PhD student is close to making a scene from Minority Report a reality. Adrian Bulzacki and a team of developers are apparently months away fromcompleting the world's first comprehensive database of human gestures, which would revolutionize the way we interact with technology.
IN BRIEF:
- What's taken so long to redevelop the old Loblaws warehouse?
- Ice falls from CN Tower
- Just in case you forgot: LCBO prices are now higher
Photo by Alexandre Minev in the blogTO Flickr pool
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I'd love to see the Loblaws building converted into a building that can be used by the community with a marketplace and art space purpose however the realist in me knows that it will just be sold to a developer who will lose it to an "accidental fire" or "collapse" and build some thoughtless glass box there instead.
How hilarious is it that Doug ford is threatening the McGuinty with losing votes. It was pretty clear that a big part of hudaks loss was a backlash to the ford brothers. Hudak is so idiotic as to tie himself to them even after the fact. Doug ford and hudak actually plan on running a bully campaign based on building a subway to the same place hudak and Doug sr cancelled under mike Harris. This guy is beyond ridiculous. Please go back to 'merica immediately if not soon.
A point I keep coming back to everytime I read about Ford, Hudak, and even Harper, is these guys aren't real conservatives. Conservatives are generally socially progressive and fiscally conservative. It saddens me to see the deterioration of the principles of the right with these clowns in their respective positions.
As for the casino in Rexdale, yes, they badly want one at Woodbine. If revenue went to transit or something specific, I'd be ok with it. Then again, I'd be ok with tolls, a VRT and being able to pick and choose how much of my property taxes go where (i.e. - less to the Police and more to the TTC).