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Yes, there are Torontoist writers who remember York's 2000/01 CUPE walkout a little too well. So when 2008 rolled around, and students were once again barred from classes for the duration of a ridiculously protracted strike, certain impressions of a scholastically bereft university flooded to mind: lots of beer, lots of hangovers, tumbleweeds blowing through Vari Hall, and a gleeful student body celebrating sweet, hedonistic sloth.

No apologies for the pun, but this is a concrete example of how to really get your message across. Forget pink ribbons, pink bracelets, and pink bumper stickers. What you need is a pink, twelve-wheel, ready-mix truck. St Marys CBM’s mighty Macks are usually grey, but this one—doing its thing at a construction site outside the CIBC on the corner of Dundas Street and University Avenue—has been repainted in support of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

Cancer Connections, an exhibition of photographs of people whose lives have been changed by cancer, launches today in Nathan Phillips Square. The exhibition, organized by photographers' group PhotoSensitive in partnership with the Canadian Cancer Society, aims to document the effects of cancer on the lives on Canadians. PhotoSensitive is inviting people to take part in the exhibition as it travels around the country, helping to raise awareness of the growing incidents of cancer in men and women.

Today is Tartan Day. This is the day customarily used for the first time ever to celebrate Scots who have moved to North America. Torontoist recommends that you celebrate by eating a deep-fried Mars bar and staggering out of a soccer game, swearing loudly.

City sells "the McDonald's site" on Bloor for a fairly low price. However, Adam Vaughan insists there are upsides to the deal, such as being able to limit the height of the condo development that will take its place, because who would want tall buildings in the downtown core?

June Callwood, the journalist and social activist dubbed by the CBC as "Canada's Conscience," succumbed to cancer this morning at 82.