September 13, 2007
Today: Oil Prices, Farrell Niceness, Doctor Crisis
The price of oil scaled new heights yesterday, climbing up over $80 US for the first time ever. That's good news if you're an oil company, but bad news if you're a regular folk who likes to go places, or do things, or eat stuff.
McDonald's Canada is going upscale. Influenced by popular chains such as Starbucks, the fast-food giant will renovate its restaurants to make them more "comfortable," creating cosiness with leather chairs, built-in fireplaces and the like. Marketing will also follow the Starbucks model, with a Big Mac being renamed a Grande Hamburguesa con Sauce Speciale and costing $17.50.
Actor Colin Farrell took time from his busy Film Festival schedule of press conferences and fornication to accompany a homeless man down to Front Street and buy him a sleeping bag and some luggage before releasing him back into the wild. Delighted with the publicity, Festival organizers are designing a program for next year whereby each Hollywood luminary will be partnered with a street person for the duration of TIFF.
Ontario Election update: John Tory complained that there aren't enough doctors, and said he'd go down to the US and woo Canadian doctors back home personally. Dalton McGuinty surrounded himself with firefighters. Howard Hampton said he'd tax the other guy and pass the savings along to you.
Photo by Colour Void from the Torontoist Flickr Pool
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(sigh) Where is all of this McDonald's/Starbuck's thing going? I mean, is this the best our society can do? Mass production/consumption, trends, surveys, pandering...is this all we have now?
Hah, you just made me spill my coffee on my keyboard. That proposed new Big Mac name is awesome!
This guy should do the news review daily. He is clever. Much better than the explosively predictable and insufferable other guy.
The high oil prices are making our dollar do very well. (i.e. the dollar is higher right now than it has been in my whole life).
I am actually happy to see it because I hope it will make people will drive less.
I know you claim to be a humourist, but I think you should either dispense your election "witticisms" equitably among the parties or avoid commenting on them at all.
I am glad the price of oil is rising. Encourages alternatives.
If McDonald's is going Starbucks the Big Mac will have to become a Venti Mac.
Maybe Farrell could have got an assistant to buy the sleeping bag thereby being help to the homeless guy and more humble himself.
How come I can slag McGuinty in every news roundup for a month and compare Tory to Mike Harris and never hear a peep but suggest just once that Howard Hampton is anything less than the divinely conceived love child of Emma Goldman and St Francis of Assisi and I get instant whining? Lighten up, folks.
Because there is no real "equity" among hipsters.
Your definition of once is clearly different than most. As is your definition of humour.