What’s happening September 30, 2010:
Hot on the heels of stats showing Canada’s young are smoking less, the feds are already working hard to screw it all up. In this case, the target is those graphic warning found on packs since 2001. Their replacement has been put on hold. Meanwhile Liberals are saying the decline in smoking has been lower since the Cons took power in 2006.
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Since we’re talking Con screw-ups, why not mention that the TTC is now saying the feds owe them $2.7 million in lost revenue and overtime wages because of the G20. Pony up, guys.
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Smartphone peoples: the new Nuit Blanche app is out. Download it. Use it.
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Speaking of arts, George Smitherman is offering the arts a $3 million cut from the billboard tax. The goal is to get Toronto’s per capita arts funding up to $25. So that still leaves about $14.5 mil to go. Oh, and Pantalone and Rossi have both promised to get to $25 as well.
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Finally, hide your kids, hide your wife, Antoine Dodson – your Halloween costume has some competition from Gawker’s Zuckerberg mask.
