Today Sat Sun
It is forcast to be Thunderstorm at 11:00 PM EDT on May 25, 2012
Thunderstorm
31°/15°		 It is forcast to be Mostly Cloudy at 11:00 PM EDT on May 26, 2012
Mostly Cloudy
29°/19°		 It is forcast to be Overcast at 11:00 PM EDT on May 27, 2012
Overcast
30°/20°

13 Comments

news

New Rent Rules, Jane Makes it Official and Walmart Goes Green?

By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

The Star weighs in on Dalton’s new rent laws. The big improvement is that landlords can no longer jack up the rent permanently after making repairs, tying rent to inflations, and guaranteed hearings for those about to be evicted by non-payment of rent. Star columnist Thomas Walkom doesn’t think it’s enough and doesn’t actually do anything to help with skyrocketing rents.
2006_5_4jane.jpgThe man apparently responsible for yesterday’s cabbie murder may have attacked a second cabbie two hours later.
A grade 12 Harbord Collegiate student died suddenly during a rugby game. A North York high school student was stabbed yesterday while playing basketball. The moral of both stories, don’t play sports.
Pitfield officially declares her candidacy (again, she registered in January) and wants Mayor Miller gone, calling him unfocused. She also thinks the city is condo crazy.
Greg Sorbara was exonerated from fraud and conflict of interest charges. His lawyers want his name removed from warrants.
A Toronto Police officer who played a role in an anti-corruption investigation has been charged with leaking info to the media.
Finally, Now reports on Wal Mart’s green-friendly overtures. The big box giant is buying some 39,000 kWh of green electricity. Critics accuse the company of greenwashing.

Comments

  • Bono

    Wow – one kid dies and one gets stabbed, and you use the news as a set up for a “joke” … classy.

  • http://www.boyreporter.ca Boy Reporter

    Yeah… I’m expecting hate mail from that one.

  • Phil

    Wow, Toronto must be a world class city when dead and stabbed kids are fodder for bad jokes, and not cause for sympathy. Callous indifference = the big time.

  • Michael

    It’s a bad joke, but how does one post from one blog represent an enitre city and whether it is “world class” or not?

  • Mike Mike Mike

    Bad taste, Boy reporter. And you want to be a City Idol? Maybe you can hang out with Rob Ford and get some pointers on inappropriate rants.

  • Bono

    Still up, huh? Nice.
    Stick to your principles man… don’t let the death of Frankie steer you away from what you need to say…. Booooo sports!

  • Ben

    Give it a charitable read. Knowing Ron Nurwisah’s posts, it’s more likely meant to be cynical than indifferent. I.e. “What’s the world coming to when sports are as dangerous as, say, gangs”

  • Unbelievable

    I cannot even believe you would write that. The guy who died during the rugby game was a friend of mine. Honestly, that was quite possibly the most awful thing I have ever heard someone say. Wow. Im going to personally email this website concerning this. You should apologize and have this article removed.

  • …

    I hope you drop dead so that I can write about you.

  • Anticorium

    You know, I used to think the rest of Canada had the mistaken impression that Toronto had a stick so far up its ass that it got splinters in its tonsils. I’d like to thank the commentary on this thread for reminding me that I owe the rest of Canada an apology for doubting them. (And, unlike some, I hope that nobody drops dead, even though the resulting blog post would undoubtedly be awesome.)

  • http://www.boyreporter.ca Boy Reporter

    Dear “unbelievable” I’m sorry to hear your friend had died. I also really hope they find out the cause of death. I certainly wouldn’t want any more people to get stabbed on or off basketball courts.
    The intent of the post was cynical and sarcastic. I’m also starting to think that Ben knows me better than I know myself.

  • Gloria

    I can see your cynical point with the stabbing (after the outpour of demand for better community services and sports facilities to keep kids off gangs, lo and behold, a kid just doing that is subject to a violent attack! Is nothing safe anymore?). Applying the same thinking to the case of a spontaneous collapse, however, is shaky at best.

  • http://www.epidemi.ca/ m-j

    Pitfield must be stopped.