What’s happening April 13, 2010:
Adam Giambrone’s fall is complete. After a mayoral bid derailed by a sex scandal, he announced he will not be running for re-election in ward 18. Instead, Giambrone suggests he might take a job in the private sector or pursue something internationally. Giambrone’s EA, Kevin Beaulieu, does want the ward 18 job, though.
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Unrelated, U of T will get a new School of Global Affairs.
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Shoppers Drug Mart begins retaliatory punishment of the public today. The despicable move involves pharmacies cutting hours in a couple of London stores (and could expand here soon) to protest the province’s attempt to make generic medications more affordable for the population by chopping “professional fees” shops like Shoppers receive from drug makers.
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U.S. bookstore/everythingstore Amazon is getting set to take on Canadian retail after the feds approved Amazon’s request to build a distribution centre in our country. The argument was that new jobs, investments, internships and other factors outweighed the risk to local booksellers and culture.
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Finally, Conan O’Brien has a new home on TV. He’s going to TBS – yes, TBS – the station that regularly brutalizes movies to PG-ify them. Hopefully the opposite will be true for Coco, who may be able to run free on late-night cable.[rssbreak]
