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Address SNAFU Confuses Paramedics, New Blue Boxes, NDP’s DiNovo Attacked

Paramedics dispatched to a house fire in west Toronto ended up on the Danforth because of a duplicate street name. Even worse, the fire may have resulted in the death of a 65-year old woman. This begs raises the question: why hasn’t the city fixed the problem? The Star reminds us that the city has actually done a study about this problem (there are about 100 or so duplications around the megacity) and done nothing.
Police shed more light on the Delta Chelsea stabbings. They believe it was a murder suicide and that the dead were a couple of Swiss tourists in town with a tour group.
The city wants to give us bigger recycling boxes four times bigger, with a lid and wheels. They feel that the larger box would make more of us recycle.
2006_9_12caribana.jpgCaribana officials say that strong attendance and careful spending has netted them a small profit. They estimated that around 1.2 million people flocked to see Caribana this year.
Cheri DiNovo, the NDP candidate in the Parkdale-High Park by-election, is facing attacks from the Liberals for a sermon she made which criticized the media treatment of Karla Homolka.

“Every day we are subject to what I consider a kind of sadistic pornography. Now I know it sells papers but every day we pick up the Star or the National Post or the Globe and we see the picture of Karla Homolka on the front cover.”

She goes on to compare Homolka’s treatment by the media to Jesus’ persecution. The NDP are not amused, neither is Conservative candidate David Hutcheon. We’re also freaked out that according to the Sun 11 cabinet ministers campaigned for Sylvia Watson yesterday. So that’s why Queen’s Park was so quiet.
Photo by Mute* from the Torontoist Flickr Group.

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  • Grammarian

    “Begs the question” refers to the use of false logic in a statement such that an argument to be proved is implicity assumed true. It does not mean “raises the question” or “makes one wonder”.
    http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/000255.html

  • http://parkdalelife.blogspot.com ers

    Glad I didn’t answer my doorbell yesterday afternoon after all…

  • rek

    The comparison to Jesus was pretty stupid, but DiNovo’s right. I constantly see sensationalist headlines, especially on the National Post and the Sun, when far more important things are going on. It’s like CNN or Fox and their garbage “news” coverage. I don’t care that Karla Homolka was seen coming out of a grocery store, or that she bought a dog, or whatever the OH MY GOD factor is supposed to be. It’s not newsworthy (certainly not front page worthy), it’s basically stalking.

  • pedant

    Since you are actually editing today:
    This:
    “Even worse the fire may have resulted in the death of a 65-year old woman. This now raises the question, why hasn’t the city fixed this problem.”
    Should read:
    “Even worse, the fire may have resulted in the death of a 65-year old woman. This now raises the question: why hasn’t the city fixed this problem?”
    This is really sloppy.

  • http://www.spacing.ca/wire Shawn Micallef

    pedant> I’m sure the Torontoist people will gladly take your monetary donation to hire a proofreader full time, so they won’t have to worry about this part of making blog posts while doing all the other things they need to do to make a living because despite the minor ads this site has, the internet don’t really pay very much, despite what you is been told. so enjoy the free content, sloppy or not.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/dstopping David Topping

    Wait, the internet doesn’t pay well? Shit.
    I fixed the sentence, btw. I don’t like “sloppy” either, but it happens, and if you tell us about it, we fix it!

  • http://www.delineated.com Carrie

    You SURE the innernet don’t pay well? Check this out:
    http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_
    archive/2006/09/01/8384325/index.htm?
    postversion=2006090812
    I’m sure our cheques are in the mail right now. Right, Ron?

  • Greg

    Honestly, whatever the pay, we should expect better from the editor of the site. On the other hand, I look forward to his postings – they are like puzzles in which the object is to find one or more of grammatical/punctuation mistakes, awkward phrasings and spelling errors.

  • http://www.spacing.ca/wire Shawn Micallef

    greg> expect better, that’s fine. but pedant the sloppy finder above pointed out the mistake very dickishly, and i think you can only be dickish if you pay.

  • Michael

    Ron and David didn’t seem to be offended.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/dstopping David Topping

    We’re not. One of the best things about the site is it’s not entirely top-down; our content is determined by our staffers, but the chance to comment and add something to the discussion is there for the readers much more than it is for any similar non-internet source of content.
    If you spot mistakes, I’d rather you let us know than just leave the site silently and hate us forever. So yeah; not angry.