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Psycho Cyclist Screwdriver Stabber Follow Up, Black-Focused Education, House Sales Increase By 15%

By Marc Lostracco

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Last week, we reported on a confrontation at College and McCaul Streets where a cyclist stabbed a motorist in the neck and face with a screwdriver. Police have arrested Yonan Inwia for assault, but give no further details. It’s stories like this that need Rosie DiManno: “Yonan Inwia fell roughly to the ground, his hands reaching out in a Christ-like fashion to break the heavy fall. Little did Yonan know, today he would be the messiah of cyclist rage, wielding the cuspidated tool of justice.”
Toronto District School Board trustees are considering opening an experimental black-focused elementary school, a plan that was first proposed and rejected back in 1995.
The Toronto Real Estate Board reports that housing sales have increased by 15% in the last year, making cutthroat bidding wars the norm and sending prices through the roof.
Toronto police officers are asking for a pay raise after the city recently increased firefighter wages.
Sales of wines in environmentally-friendlier PET plastic bottles and tetrapaks have increased by more than 300% in the last year, reports the LBCO. But not all people are willing to jump on the bandwagon: Joanne Chimenti, sommelier at Canoe Restaurant, scoffs and says that wine in plastic bottles is “wine geared toward the masses.” Don’t the masses deserve to get their drink on?
Photo by fisso416 in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. P.S. This photo does not depict Yonan Inwia, but a relatively harmless bike polo player.

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  • rek

    When plastic becomes the norm, Chimenti can triple her menu prices for the experience of “authentic glass bottles”.

  • Val Dodge

    “Cuspidated tool of justice” is good for at least five DiMannos.

  • Ben

    I think I read in the NOW sometime (in the past two years probably) that tetra pack recycling facilities don’t exist in Toronto, meaning that they are less environmentally friendly.
    Also, if I am correct in assuming that assuming bottles returned to the beer store are washed and reused rather than crushed, melted down and reformed, then reusing the old bottles would be a much greener process anyways.

  • Karen Whaley

    Really? I was trying for six. :(

  • rek

    Upon further thought, I don’t think a Christ pose would help break your fall — unless you were falling sideways.

  • chardy

    Ben, not all bottles returned to the Beer Store are washed and reused. Generally, only domestic beer bottles (the big brands, which you’ll notice all use the same brown twist-top bottle) and local microbrews (Steamwhistle, Brick, Amsterdam) go through multiple uses. The rest– Stella Artois bottles, wine bottles, whiskey bottles, whatever– are crushed and recycled.

  • somnambulant

    Just so everyone knows, while I *am* the crazy bike polo player pictured, I’m *not* Crazy McStabsalot. :)

  • Jonathan Goldsbie

    This Gord Perks column from Eye last year is extraordinarily damning and a highly recommended read:

    In just over six years, the LCBO has made the best package in the world (the glass bottle) impossible to refill and nearly impossible to recycle….Because Tetra Paks are made in three layers, which don’t easily part, only some of the middle layer (paper fiber) is recycled. The outer layer of plastic and the inner layer of aluminum are wasted completely. Given that aluminum and plastic are enormously dirty materials to produce, wasting them is criminal.