Public transit talk
The Toronto Board of Trade publicly declares its support – finally – for revenue tools to raise much-needed cash for public transit, to the chagrin of our tax-hating mayor. Adam Giambrone’s story on page 14.
Thomas Mulcair
The NDP leader pulls off a rare feat for a Canadian politician: he manages to get noticed while in Washington, DC, for tearing a strip off Canada for its sorry-ass record on the environment – which prompted tar sands oil pushers to declare him a traitor. A sure sign he’s right.
H2O
World Water Day, declared by the UN at the Rio Summit on the environment in 1992 (remember that?), celebrates its 20th anniversary on Friday (March 22).
Nuke-free future
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission gives the go-ahead to Darlington to refurbish four nuclear reactors, rejecting environmentalists’ urgings to plow the billions that will cost over the next 30 years into renewable energy projects.
Tabloid sensibilities
The Globe’s front-page shot of high-steppin’ Canadian figure skater Kaetlyn Osmond’s crotch gets a few shorts in a knot, including the paper’s own public editor, Sylvia Stead, who takes to Twitter to call the photo “inappropriate.” Sheesh.
Sports clichés
Golfer Tiger Woods has a new girlfriend, American World Cup skiing champion Lindsey Vonn, and all the press notices is the fact that she’s blond and looks a lot like Woods’s ex, who he fucked around on. If Woods were dating a black woman, would that constitute redemption?
