SWEET SCIENCE FOR GIRLS
8:56 pm, Friday, March 4, 99 Sudbury: Chloe Madonia (left) and Sue McFadden take their best shot in Girl Fight! benefit for Nellie’s women’s shelter. See a slide show of the event here.
BIKE BACKLASH
The city is hacking away at what little bike support it offers urban cyclists. Last week, junior staff told a meeting of cycling group representatives that there would no longer be a Bike Month, but instead a Bike Day. “We don’t have funding,” Transportation Services’ Miya Akiyama explained. Efforts will be limited to putting on the Monday Bike Ride and breakfast and some support for an online calendar of bike-themed activities organized by citizens and groups. Word is that the Cycling Committee, already seriously truncated, may also be eliminated. – Hamish Wilson
SPOTTED
What Banner drop targeting mining mogul Peter Munk by members of Munk Out of U of T campaign.
When Sunday, March 6, outside the Munk School of Global Affairs at U of T
Why To focus public attention on the Barrick Gold CEO’s “gang rape is a cultural habit” diatribe – and Barrick’s efforts to stymie tighter regulation of Canuck mining companies operating abroad.
FORD’S INNER SANCTUM
What makes Rob Ford tick? This photo taken during a sit-down with Newstalk 1010 last week in the mayor’s City Hall digs offers a hint or two.
- Ford is taking seriously doctors’ orders to drink more water after that kidney stone a few weeks back.
- The mayor recycles diligently. We bet this big-ass shredder makes great party streamers.
- The Double Gulp: 64 ounces for that morning kick – more than any normal human can consume.
- Ford may be rich, but he’s just like the rest of us, chasing the Lotto 649 dream.
Photo by Astral Radio
CITYSCAPE
Labspace Studio rolls out its latest collaborative art project, Snow Days, exploring the effects of winter on the creative process. Work by 28 artists done on each day in February is on view March 18 to 20 (2A Pape). Photo by Oliver Pauk
WILD CITY
The spring bird migration began Monday, March 7, and already FLAP, the Fatal Light Awareness Program, has recovered the first dead bird of the season from a collision with a building: an American Woodcock in the financial district. Last year, FLAP collected the bodies of 2,000 dead migratory birds, pictured here as part of the one-day Dead Bird Exhibit at the ROM earlier this week. Photo by Kenneth Herdy.
