January 5, 2007
Twelve Percent More For Water, Bollywood Premiere = Hotter, and 10-2? Seriously? Wow!
So, what did you think of that nine percent increase in water billing? How would you like a TWELVE percent increase? Because water staffers are suggesting it as an "alternative plan." I suppose technically it's an alternative, but it doesn't have the feel of what an "alternative plan" is supposed to be; usually there's a sort of tradeoff involved, as opposed to "well, in this plan we raise prices, and in this one we raise them even more."
Canwest Global teams up with Goldman-Sachs to try and purchase Alliance-Atlantis. I was going to try and offer a competing bid, but I only had like, twenty bucks on me, and it turns out Alliance-Atlantis is worth a couple billion dollars. Go figure.
Guru, the Bollywood biopic, premieres in Toronto next week. This is the first Bollywood picture to have its world premiere here, and hopefully will begin a tradition of big-budget three-hour films with unlikely dance sequences premiering in Toronto.
Stephan Dion blasts Stephen Harper for environmental policy. He makes the excellent point that replacing Rona Ambrose with John Baird doesn't really do anything if Baird is allowed to do as much as Ambrose was - IE, dick-all.
Toronto doctor calls for universal HIV testing. Civil liberties activists, health economists and sleazy pick-up artists will stage a joint press conference on Tuesday opposing the idea.
And the Leafs absolutely MASSACRED the Bruins last night. 10-2? Guys, where were those goals all last month? You could have saved, like, seven of them for those games!
Image by Ryan and from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
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I would double check on the claim that The Guru is the first "Indian film to be unveiled in the city" as stated in the Star article - the Film Festival had 4 Indian films making their world premiere this year alone.
Alliance Atlantis does some pretty good stuff, so I really hope CanWest fails to buy them. CanWest is everything that's wrong with Canadian media.
I`d be fine with anybody voicing how the current government could have done more for the environment during their 11 months in office. Anybody that is, except for the Liberals.
I'm glad water is going to cost more. Maybe people will stop wasting it.
But I wouldn't recommend this:
RUNNING TAP 2005
In an extraordinary art performance, environmentally conscious artist Mark McGowan turned on a cold water tap in the House Gallery in Camberwell, London and planned to leave it running for one year, wasting 15 million litres of water. Due to the intervention of Thames Water, he had to turn it off again after one month.
McGowan said,
‘Basically it was an art piece for people to come and look at and enjoy aesthically, it was also a comment on a social and environment issue.'
http://www.markmcgowan.org/photos/page_5.html
http://clublet.com/c/c/house?page=RunningTap
Nothing bothers me more than a running tap. I have to resist the urge to punch house guests when I see them keep the tap running while they brush their teeth instead of turning it off between brush rinses.
I'm glad that dude intervened on the running tap installation, despite the fact that it's a very clever statement.
Small detail but...
The headline is wrong. It was 10-2
The guy couldn't have designed his "installation" to reclaim the water out of sight and actually be a closed system?
I think the wasting of the water was part of the idea.
And besides, this guy pushed a peanut with his nose 7 km to 10 Downing St. to give it to the P.M. as a protest against student fees, so I'm not sure he's playing with a full deck.
Re: #6 -- title fixed.