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Morning Brew: Danzig shooting update, Mr. Christie's workers fight condo, school could refund TTC, a mini PRESTO card, uranium next door, and bag ban goes soft
Toronto police are expected to announce an arrest in the Danzing Street shooting case later this morning. According to reports, police arrested someone Wednesday, possibly in connection with the deaths of Joshua Yasay, 23, and Shyanne Charles, 14. One person has been charged in connection with the mass shooting, for reckless discharge of a firearm.
The bakers at Mr. Christie's in Etobicoke are preparing to fight for their factory. The plant is expected to close next year at a cost of 550 jobs and its owners plan to rezone the site for a condo development. The city seems to favor protecting its employment lands - is it right to keep condos out of these work areas?
The Toronto Catholic District School Board and Don Bosco high school might reimburse the TTC the cost of the shelter bus at the centre of this week's controversy, mainly because people keep calling up to complain. In other ill-gotten public vehicle news, The Star reports that the last time a shelter bus was used for transportation was during the Sunrise Propane explosion.
618 ships docked at the Port of Toronto between 2008 and 2011. The Grid finds out what's on board.
GO Transit riders will know the wallet-sized PRESTO card is colossal and hopelessly unwieldy, which is probably why developer Daniel De Sousa has reverse engineered a smaller, keyring version [via Reddit]
Some west end residents are finding out about about a uranium processing plant in their neighbourhood. Though the General Electric-Hitachi facility has been on the site since 1965, neighbours are concerned about the 2,000 tonnes of radioactive uranium dioxide the plant spits out each year.
Forty years ago yesterday, Toronto finally came to its senses and overturned a decision that would have seen its streetcars traded for a wink and the promise of a kiss, or something like that. Steve Munro has the story at Torontoist.
Businesses might get until the summer to prepare for bag prohibition. According to The Star, industry groups have convinced city officials to include a grace period between January 1st and June 30th when no fines, only warnings, can be issued. You know what that means? Yep, another hilarious video from pro-bag pressure group "Reverse the Bag Ban." This time, society collapses when bin liners run out.
IN OTHER NEWS:
- Grandmother dies from injuries in Scarborough house fire [The Star]
- Beloved Toronto police horse dies suddenly on the job [The Star]
- Man shows up at hospital with gunshot wounds to head, back [CBC]
- Blue Jays' managerial search on a 'good pace' [CBC]
- Toronto cyclist suffers serious head injuries after collision with taxi [National Post]
Photo: "Speed Bumps Ahead" by Dominic Bugatto from the blogTO Flickr pool.
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Cyclist gets hit by car
Cyclist learns painful lesson
What this demonstrates is the need for not only physically separated bike lanes, but reinforced concrete tunnels on city streets to protect the INNOCENT from the forces of EVIL
A whackjob from Trent goes door to door to complain, now all the residents are "ahhhhmawgawd" and are now complaining and have set up a meeting.
Really? This is definitely a case of jumping on a bandwagon. There is NO reason whatsoever to complain. Signage is clearly on the building (I've passed it many times in the past as part of my then commute), and their website doesn't hide what they produce.
It must be a boring life for the Lansdowne and Dupont residents.
Listen, the uranium plant existed for a long time before you decided to buy a semi near Lansdowne and Dupont and start a family in the west end, and the Junction and its trains existed 100+ years ago, well before you bought your poorly built townhome near the triangle. This whole area was an industrial zone up until the late 70's, accept it and shut up. If you want to live in the country, then move to the country.
Do your F-ing homework before you move into a neighborhood.
Just because you move in there doesnt mean you get to alter whats been going on for a 100 years in that area.
If you dont like railroads and/or uranium plants....hmm..what should you do..? Oh thats right...NOT LIVE THERE.
Guess what..i dont like the sounds of airplanes flying over my head every 4 mintues. Guess what...im not going to buy a house in Malton(besides a plethora of other reasons) or anywhere near the flight paths. Pretty logical, no?
Clueless idiots.
Logic has no place in life, obviously.
or was that sarcasm and i'm just off my meds again?
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/sheilachavezexec1975
http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/newsfeatures/article/698083--double-kids-double-ei
Maybe she's bored with being a housewife/PT admin asst. and felt the need to take up a cause?
actually i have friends that work in traffic services and everyone single one says it is the bicyclist fault. Going through a light early is against the law, and the cab for once did not break the law.
And yes, I know that not everyone has a drivers licence, but the option should exist to merge those three cards into a single card.
ALL traffic lights go red in all direction before turning green. SO if the cyclist jumped the red so did the driver.
For one thing, its hardly a "given" that any incident between a cyclist and a motorist is the motorists fault, although that seems to be the default reaction of many in the cycling community. I drive and ride a bike and can tell you that for every idiot motorist out there, there's at least one corresponding idiot cyclist. The thing I always find interesting though, is that when the cyclists get all haughty about motorist behaviour, they actually forget that its in their best interest to be abundantly cautious when riding - at the end of the day, if a car and a bike collide, who do you think is taking the brunt of that impact? Its the rule of thumb I use when riding or walking - if I have any doubt, I let the car go by. Shrieking about having right of way won't do me much good from my hospital bed (or the morgue).
As for the Uranium factory, well, what can I say. When people say "Do your homework" when buying property, that also means actually understanding whats in the neighborhood you've moved into, and that goes beyond doing a count of the hip coffee shops and restaurants. That GE plant has been there almost 50 years, doing the same thing they've always done - its not exactly a secret, so if you didn't know, that's on you for not doing your research. I'm sure it sucks for those just finding out now, but that area has been a residential neighorhood for many, many years - families were living there long before hipsters "discovered" it.
I actually think it would be disgraceful if these NIMBYs were successful in chasing out an established manufacturing plant that is employing hundreds of people because of an ill-informed fear of what's been going on there, without incident, for almost half a century.
I'm normally an excellent speller, honest.
PS. I don't read the Star but thanks for playing
Why would the cab driver not get a fine for running a light? My understanding is you go through a yellow light if you are unable to stop in time once the light changes. Other wise you stop on the yellow. Whatever system I use to commute I follow that rule. I see so many who continue through even after turning red, regardless their form of transport.
Happy trolling
Another thing that's been bugging me about all of this anti-nuclear power bullshit; how do the people who are against it (but who love power draining things like high speed rail and electric trains) expect said things to be powered? I'm sorry, but wind isn't going to cut it, no matter what the Greens or Greenpeace says. It's going to need a stable, non-intermittent power source, and that power source is either going to be hydro electric plants, coal-firing plants, gas firing plants, or nuclear-and I know what ones are the most likely to be built. It's time for you and the people of your neighborhood to embrace truth instead of fear based scaremongering-and that means getting sensible about nuclear science, and what nuclear materials can do. Not believing in fantasies and old wife's tales.