Scramblelicious, Stadium Barack, School Cool With Pools and Cops

Toronto gave scramble intersections their first shot on city streets in more than fifty years, as one launched yesterday at Yonge and Dundas. NOW had a video of it yesterday, Spacing's Wire will have a timelapse video shot by Sam Javanrouh later today (here's a preview), and we might have something extra-special on Torontoist this weekend. Never has legally crossing a street been so exciting.

Good news for Toronto students! The twenty-three Toronto school pools scheduled to close will stay open at least one more year, thanks to a $4 million grant from Queen's Park. Students won't be able to start using them till October, however, because a vote to immediately rehire the thirty-two swim instructors failed. You'd think the pools and the people who allow for their use would sorta be one package, but nope.

Distressing news for Toronto students! Armed police officers will soon be stationed in two dozen public and two Catholic high schools in the fall, according to Toronto District School Board chair John Campbell. Presumably their first task upon being hired will be to strictly enforce "no horseplay" pool rules.

Yesterday, the Toronto Sun's cover story was a pro-graffiti article about a mural at Bloor and Delaware. We swear. It was written in maddening sentence-long paragraphs and everything!

Barack Obama's speech last night to accept the nomination of the Democratic party (go watch it on MSNBC if you haven't yet) was, well, predictably great. John McCain, who booked time last night to air what some expected would be an attack ad, instead used the slot to congratulate Obama. Really! We really wish politics could be classy more often.

Photo by Lú__ from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.