By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

Margaret Atwood is signing books, actually she’s using her newly developed machine to sign books. It seems that Atwood is sick and tired of doing endless book tours and signing countless books, so she’s invented a machine that allows her to remotely sign books. Torontoist sympathizes with Atwood, who is approaching 70, and would find whirlwind publicity tours tiresome after the 30+ books she’s done. Frankly, if the invention let’s Atwood spend more time writing she can use as many remote controlled signing devices as she wants! After all the Beatles did their best work (Sgt. Pepper’s, the White Album) after they stopped touring, what does that tell you?
On the east side the TTC just announced that they’ll be tearing up parts of Carlton and Gerrard Streets for track repairs. James Bow at Transit Toronto gives us all the gritty details. Why this man isn’t running the TTC is beyond us.
Staying on the east side, Leslieville resident Joe Clark judges a design charette (there’s that word again!) to redesign the Eucan Bin. We’re happy that other “non-Spacers” as he calls them are taking initiative. As a self-identified Spacer Joe, all we gotta say is bravo. We can’t wait for the designs to be posted on the web.
Finally, community paper The Bulletin does a little profile on possibly one of the most reviled women in the city, Lisa Raitt, CEO of the Toronto Port Authority. The story reveals that Raitt singlehandedly allowed the environmental assessments on the area south of Bathurst to go ahead (the other member of the TPA board has a conflict of interest and wouldn’t be able to vote) AND received a bonus from the Feds for ramming through approvals on the bridge.