Two headlines from my feeds just now: Ten Arrested During Multi-Agency Tobacco Smuggling Operation Mountain Pine Beetle: Canada’s New Government Delivers Hmm. I suppose it’s good that they caught the tobacco-smuggling agencies, but do we really need mountain pine beetles delivered?
Digging himself an ever-deeper grave
John Tory now favours not just funding private religious schools teaching the Ontario curriculum, but also supports these schools’ rights to teach creationism: Creationism raised as Ont. election issue CAROLINE ALPHONSO AND TENILLE BONOGUORE Globe and Mail Update September 5, 2007 at 2:41 PM EDT TORONTO — Publicly-funded religious schools would be allowed teach creationismcontinue reading
Torontoist’s TTC Survey
Thought the TTC survey was a bit skimpy? You might like this one better. I know I did! Edit: link fixed. Now how did that get there? Sheesh…
Please, Sir, May I Have Another?
This ticks me off. Two years for taping a bit of a movie for your own personal use? WTFF? Could the government bend over any farther to the industry lobbyists?
Cognitive dissonance
The fundamentals in Toronto don’t point to continued accelerated growth in the housing market: Toronto CMA unemployment went up by 0.1% in July to 7.0% — one of the highest u/e rates in the country and higher than the headline 6.0%. Toronto’s wage growth was smack in the middle of national wage growth at 3.6%continue reading
The whole beast
I went to the brand-new Cherry St. T&T’s today. It does seem like it should have a place in our grocery routine, though I’m still working out what it would be. TMQ and I cook from a set of ideas that are mostly English and Italian, while T&T as far as I can tell iscontinue reading
Housing prices vs. rent
I recently had a conversation with an acquaintance who had bought a house to renovate and resell in the Bloor and Ossington area. She mentioned that she was amazed by the price rise in the area, and noted that if she wasn’t able to sell the house, she wouldn’t be able to rent it outcontinue reading
Testy of the Danforth
We missed Taste of the Danforth, except for the first night, when we got to enjoy the all-night whooping afterparty in Withrow Park. (1) Needed. 2) More. 3) Cops.) We went camping after that, not at all coincidentally. But Val Dodge went, and wrote a satisfying rant for Torontoist: So the question remains, why docontinue reading
Cheap, secure parking in central London
From the Daily Mail: A hedge fund tycoon who ran up thousands of pounds of motoring fines abandoned his £80,000 supercar in a pound for three months – because he was too busy to collect it. … When they towed away his Maserati Cambiocorsa from a square in Knightsbridge in May, they were certain hecontinue reading
Wines
Our first attempts at foodie-oenophileness in Ottawa were not auspicious. A kinda boring Italian wine with a middling pizza, a non-VQA Ontario Merlot that I accidentally bought with a downright bad pizza, and then, worst of all, a highly-rated Austrialian Bordeaux Blend (Parker 89 etc.) that we travelled all over to Ottawa to find andcontinue reading