What’s happening September 15, 2010:
You’d think Gordon Lightfoot died or something. Ryerson-based J-Source and BlogTO were reporting doom and gloom buyouts at the National Post as if the near-daily were counting down its last days (buyouts by Friday). But it isn’t. It’s just trimming the fat. Or so say some, including one friend I talked to who mentioned, “[expunging] some grandfathered in mega-salaries from the Conrad days.”
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The people behind a new Rob Ford critique site definitely wouldn’t mind if he disappeared by the end of the week, though.
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As critiques go, you can’t help but find hilarious the idea of butchers critiquing cuts used to create Lady Gaga’s meat dress. Verdict: it’s cheap.
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Over in Washington, Obama turned down solar panel installations for the White House. There were panels from 1979-86, but no-go in 2010.
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Finally, Jack Layton is saying he has enough of his NDP crew onside to prevent the destruction of the long-gun registry. All that without a whipping. See, gun nuts, we don’t need violent weapons to get our way.