Goodbye Hoy, GM Workers To Get Parting Gifts, Sasquatch!

Mayor David Miller has already named deputy city manager Joe Pennachetti as the favoured replacement for city manager Shirley Hoy, who tendered her resignation yesterday. Torontoist can't find anything funny about this story and is actively soliciting suggestions for jokes. Any contributions which include the phrase "stop calling me Shirley" will be automatically disqualified.

Workers at the soon-to-be-closed GM truck plant in Oshawa are being offered a variety of incentives to ease them towards unemployment. Some long-time employees stand to receive as much as $125,000 and a $35,000 voucher for a car, or roughly as much as a basketball scholarship to a second-tier American college.

Almost 700 more bikes were seized from premises rented by bicycle dealer Igor Kenk yesterday, bringing the total number found to over 3,200. This whole bike-stealing thing is starting to look less like a practical criminal enterprise and more like some kind of weird obsession.

Is Canada failing to provide necessary learning support for pre-kindergarten age children? Kids from poor parts of Mexico who benefit from early education programs perform better on tests than most Canadian children, notes Dr. Fraser Mustard, who is a widely respected early childhood education specialist and not an animated condiment mascot.

Two women may have encountered a Sasquatch while picking berries in Northern Ontario. The pair described what they saw as "about eight feet long and all black, and the way it walked was upright, human-like." Experts say that the sighting was most likely either a genuine Bigfoot or a giant feral marketing executive.

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