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Homicidal Sunday, Rulebreaking Driving Schools, Veterans Get Memorial

The CBC points out that three people were murdered in a matter of hours this Sunday. First, a man was run over and then hacked to death by machete. Second, a 22-year old man was found by his parents in their backyard. Third, a man was found shot in the head in a Parkdale rooming house.
Out of town, a Toronto-raised basketball star is clinging to life in a Pittsburgh hospital after being shot in the head following a party.
The Star exposes the fact that tons of this province’s driving instructors can’t follow the rules of the road. Man, this completely explains some of the drivers’ we’ve met on the road. Some of them have even faced student complaints of verbal abuse and leaving students by the side of the road.
2006_9_18nunziataears.jpgThe Post suffers a bit of post-TIFF crankiness. Apparently we’re spending way too much time fawning over the celebrities that descend on the city during the festival.

“Years ago, Toronto was renowned for ignoring celebrities. Celebrities claimed they liked being able to walk down a street and not have people stare or constantly ask for autographs. And since Canadians have a natural reserve, this was our way of being polite.”

Frances Nunziata gets herself a myspace account to try to woo younger voters. No, this is not a joke.
Finally, we were wondering what those vintage warplanes flying over downtown Toronto was all about. They were part of an unveiling of a memorial to veterans.

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

    Ah, ok; I was wondering about those fighter jets, too.

  • http://brokenengine.blogspot.com brokenengine

    Yeah, me too. They flew right over my house, low altitude. Woke up my kid, scared crap out of my wife hahahaha!

  • mm

    The POST is bitching about over coverage. The same newspaper that featured a double page spread of all the visiting celebs for 10 days straight? Owned by the same company that also has a TV show that covered the festival to death? who ate what, where and with whom.
    Goes to show you that CanWest is nothing but a complete joke. Can someone tell me why the NP is still around?

  • http://www.beingtheremag.com Adam

    I totally agree. The public’s obsession with celebrities is fuelled by the media. As much as TIFF always markets itself as a film-focused festival, the media anticipation shoved down our throats is always focused away from the films and on who’s going to be in town, whether it be Sean Penn, Jude Law, Brad Pitt or J Lo. It’s quite annoying, actually.
    Side note: I really don’t get the celebrity stalkers who get so excited because they saw someone famous after waiting outside Sutton Place for three hours. As cool as you are for being one of the 500 people who saw Zach Braff IN PERSON, it’s those odd encounters like the time Christopher Walken was behind me in line at Rabba that are much more fun.

  • rek

    Years ago, we didn’t considers celebrities all that newsworthy. Thanks CanWest and CTV and CHUM, for importing the star-obsessed Yank media model to Canada! I don’t know how we managed before Entertainment Tonight Canada, Star!, and eTalk!
    I can’t stand shows like that, partly because THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO BE YELLING. STAY TUNED FOR AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH SOME ACTOR ABOUT HIS OR HER PERSONAL LIFE! YOU HEARD IT HEAR FIRST!

  • x_the_x

    importing the star-obsessed Yank media model to Canada!
    I invite you to take a hard look at the British tabloids before engaging in knee-jerk anti-Americanism of the sort that is becoming endemic on this site.