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Sunday Quiet Sunday?, The $46 Billion Nukes, 14-Year Old Girl Packs Heat

By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

City council is debating a Sunday noise ban today but only in low-density residential neighbourhoods. Howard Moscoe, pointed out that this idea is discriminatory, “More than half the people in the city live in highrise buildings. People who have condos deserve as much right to noise protection as people wealthy enough to own a single-family home,” he said to the Star. Howard we agree with you on this one.
A 25-year old is clinging to life today after a high-speed crash in Etobicoke late Tuesday night. Police suspect street racing.
2006_6_14parks.jpgThe City unveils its new parks strategy. The strategy has 53 recommendations including one we really like to increase tree cover in parks by 10%. Trees, we love ‘em.
The Ontario government estimates that it’ll cost about $46 billion (in today’s dollars) to build new nuclear power plants. The bulk of this will be paid for by hydro ratepayers. So to add insult to injury, those of us who don’t like nukes will be paying for a part of them everytime we pay our electricity bills.
One Michigan landfill will be slashing their quota of Canadian trash in half which will hopefully remind council that we might have an impending garbage crisis on our hands.
Is it the warmer weather? We’ve had a rash of murders in the last few days. One man was found dead in an apartment near Weston Road and Eglinton following a violent altercation, and two men were shot in North York, one fatally.
It doesn’t help things when a 14-year old girl is found carrying a loaded .44 to her high school.
2006_6_14necklicker.jpgFinally, an elderly gentleman has been harrassing women in the area around Queen and Brock. The description from CityNews is a little disturbing:

He comes up to his victims and introduces himself. He then offers to shake their hands.
But when the unsuspecting ladies good naturedly offer him theirs, he refuses to let go. He then kisses the startled females on both cheeks, licks their necks, claims he’s their boyfriend and then leaves hurling numerous obscenities at them.

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  • hey

    Your right to quiet isn’t wealth linked (but remember that there are lots of places where you can get a single family home cheap, even in the city limits). However, most condos are in the core or around central spots in the city. What about the people who bought in the Pantages building? Shouldn’t they be allowed peace and quiet? Shut down St Mike’s! And the people in condos and houses near Yonge and Balmoral.. close that damn noisy firestation!
    Or maybe, instead, we should say that this is living in a city. You moved in knowing full well what the noise was like, so deal with it or move to Inuvik.
    People complaining about noise that was there when they moved in drive me nuts. Condo owners in the entertainment district, squatters on Toronto Island, suburbanites around Pearson: you knew what was around you, you knew you weren’t living in a rural idyll, please shut up and stop demonstrating your stupidity and immaturity.

  • http://pukegreen.com Gary

    The alternative to building more nuclear reactors is to keep burning coal, which pollutes, worsens global warming, and is itself becoming more and more expensive. Greens should take a hard look at nuclear — and many already have, including a founder of Greenpeace — and realize that it is probably the best option we have to replace coal. Wind and solar can help but just don’t have the capacity to replace coal with current technology. Nobody in North America has ever died from a nuclear reactor — even at Three Mile Island — yet thousands die from coal-fuelled smog every year. Yes, the waste generated is nasty but it comes in small quantities that can be contained if we plan properly.

  • chris thomas

    good! does that mean we can keep some of the most toxic substance in the world (i.e.-nuclear waste) in your backyard? i know i don’t want it. geee, something the govt never talks about is how godawful deadly this stuff. and not jsut deadly for a few months, but for THOUSANDS of years.
    NO, nuclear is NOT the only option. we just have to work and think harder about the problem.

  • chris thomas

    … not too mention the hazardous environemnt and exposure created by mining uranium, some o fwhich is still doen by strip mining ….

  • motherfuckinnature

    I don’t trust that nuclear storage will be in perfect shape in 100 years, ever seen an abandoned anything? They fall apart like everything. We don’t know if humans will last forever, why ruin the chance for more life once we make ourselves extinct? If you don’t want any of your cash to go towards ugly nuclear or coal, there are solutions these days for us lucky people in Ontario… companies like Bullfrog Energy, you pay them your hydro bill, get electricity from your local grid, and they make sure that the equivalent amount of energy you use will be produced by a renewable resource elsewhere and contributed to that local grid. This makes sense. Conserving energy is an easy first step for everybody; I see so much waste daily. Drive a smaller car, or hybrid or low horsepower diesel, change your light bulbs to efficient ones, don’t be a pussy and turn the air conditioner down a few degrees, dry your clothes outside if you have some space, don’t leave the water running when you brush your teeth, if you take a piss and it happens to be clear, maybe let it mellow, nobody will even notice, stop watering your damn lawn, especially if you spray shit on it so it looks purdy for your superficial neighbours, buy food that was produced locally, recycle, oh right, and turn stuff off when you don’t need it. Shit yea, Edmonton just won…. cheers friends.

  • hey

    Some people need to take remedial physics lessons. A nuclear site that will be radioactive for thousands of years is not going to be seriously dangerous. The sites that are substantially dangerous are those that contain lots of short half-life isotopes. Thus very high doses of radiation.
    A long half life site will produce minimal radiation over any reasonable amount of time. If 3 or 4 generations live on the site and never leave, then maybe you’ll see some problems, but this concern is just ignorant, nihillist, mysanthropic environmentalism at its worst.
    Get a real education (not English or Sociology) before opening your mouth on an issue with actual answers, rather than does George Bush make me feel bad. Freaking Hippies.

  • Chris Thomas

    in response to “hey” as he/she likes to be called: bugger off, dick.
    remedial physics? yeh, i have 3 physics degrees and work in radiation physics. i know what radiation does to biology. it ain’t pretty. we operate under the ALARA principle (as low as reasonably possible). what does that mean, IMO, in this case? don’t fucking use it …

  • Boy Reporter

    Hey I’m proud of my English degree.
    “rather than does George Bush make me feel bad?” Why don’t you take some remedial English lessons.

  • Chris Thomas

    boy reporter: nice one! give em hell!