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Coping With the Dawson College Tragedy, Where There’s Smoke There’s Sean Penn, Parkdale-High Park Hits the Polls

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Students at Toronto area colleges and high schools are coping with the shootings at Montreal’s Dawson College. The murders also has parents of high-school age children worried.
Students in the GTA are doing better on provincial math and reading tests sadly those in Toronto-proper need more work.
2006_9_14penn.jpgSean Penn apparently missed that no smoking sign. The actor was caught smoking at a TIFF press conference and now the province is investigating whether the hotel should be fined. Wait, you mean celebrities aren’t above the law?
Not even developer Harry Stinson could keep the Dominion Club open. His private club was attached to the 1 King West development and had the help of David Mirvish but it simply couldn’t draw enough people. He’s forced to buy back memberships to the semi-private club which will cost him around $1 million.
The municipal election soldiers on slowly and the Star rounds up the news. Joe Mihevc has been getting smeared, councillors want to replace Mark Grimes on the TTC committee and Tam Goosen isn’t running in ward 20.
Jane Pitfield isn’t going to let the pan-handling by-law die. She’s bringing the by-law to the policy and finance committee this month.
Finally, everyone drops the mud they were slinging to go to the polls in Parkdale-High Park. City councillor Sylvia Watson and United Church Minister Cheri DiNovo are locked in a tight race which in the last few days devolved into personal attacks on DiNovo.

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  • chris

    speaking of the tragedy in montreal, did anybody catch the frontpages of the Sun and the Star today? they BOTH have outrageous photos of the killer posing with weapons. disgraceful and cold-hearted if you ask me.
    if you agree, i urge you to write the editor. they need to show some professionalism ….

  • http://brokenengine.blogspot.com brokenengine

    Why would the Sun start now?

  • chris

    yeh, good point … but both papers did it so i thought it best to chastise both for been scum-sucking bottom-feeders …

  • http://www.publicspace.ca Jonathan

    Didn’t the exact same thing happen a couple of years ago when Sean Penn smoked during the press conference for The Assassination of Richard Nixon?

  • http://http:/www.beingtheremag.com Adam

    Unfortunately the Toronto papers aren’t alone in sensationalizing the Montreal tragedy by using photos of the killer and his guns. Check out CNN.com and most U.S. newspaper websites, where it remains the top story.

  • chris

    so, write the papers anyway …
    let the americans deal with their news sources.

  • Dave

    THEE Sean Penn? The same one who`s so opposed to violence, unless of course you`re a photographer, or his wife.
    I do agree both papers front pages were lousy and will write.

  • Adam

    Apparently they are fining Sutton Place for the smoking violation, and not Sean Penn. Is it just me, or wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to fine the Toronto International Film Festival group for allowing Penn to smoke without saying anything? Is the Delta Chelsea being charged with murder because of what happened there?

  • mongo

    waah waah waah. the bad scary man smoked a cigarette. i need to be upset by this. let’s blame somebody. he smoked. that’s baaaad