Newsstand: November 23, 2009
The Making of a Medley
The Daily Photoist: November 23, 2009
Transit City and Transit Cities
A gunman shot one, opened fire on police, and hit an EMS vehicle in the Dundas and Parliament area this morning. Police closed off an area from Parliament to Sumach and Dundas to Queen in search of the man. The Star's story is here and CityNews is also on the case.
The Globe reports that crime shot up in the GTA in 2005. But the police are also saying that 2004 was a low-crime year and the spike may just be an anomaly and not an indicator that crime in the city is on the rise.
The Costa Rican family in the middle of an immigration battle won't be staying. A federal court judge denied them a deportation extension. The family's two teenage children were pulled out of school and held in a detention centre. They were eventually released but now they'll be forced to leave the country with the rest of their family.
The Pickering nuclear power plant still hasn't installed a key safety feature mandated because of the August 2003 blackout. The blackout shut off the plant's cooling system which meant the reactor couldn't be taken off-line.
The Toronto District School Board is hacking away at its spending to try to meet a $84 million budget shortfall. The plan is to close 10 schools, eliminate 600 assistants and close 80 swimming pools.
TVO gets an extra $25 million over the next two years. Who needs schools when you can watch TVO?
Jane Pitfield's anti-panhandling by-law will be looked at by city staff. She called the panhandling situation in Toronto "out of control." Well, we consider the idiocy situation at City Hall out of control, maybe we should get staff to look into that.
The TTC's deal with Bombardier to provide the commission's new subway cars (name still pending) is safe. Council decided not to explore bids from other companies.
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This hype over Pickering overheating is nothing but FUD. The CANDU reactor cannot overheat and cause a meltdown by design. The tubes that contain the uranium dioxide pellets are bathed in heavy water that is the mediator for the nuclear reaction to occur. Should the heavy water boil away into the reactor containment building, the reaction stops and the reactor shuts down automatically. Nothing on the scale of Chernobyl could have happened, no matter how much the media/hippie blogs want you to believe.