Results tagged “safety”

The usual way for a driver to avoid eggnog-fuelled destruction during the holidays is for them to travel with a designated driver. This is a tried-and-true method of avoiding being the only perp at the station who smells alluringly of nutmeg. If, for whatever reason, it's not a viable option for you (maybe all your friends like the 'nog as much as you do?) Toronto-area entrepreneur John Long has a solution. It involves tow trucks.

Shortly after a series of shoot-outs and drug busts in Clubland last year, Councillor Adam Vaughan made a stout-hearted attempt to allay citizens’ fears: "There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's not a strobe light coming from the next club, but a better tomorrow."

What to make of a map of cycling accidents that shows that the most dangerous street for cyclists also happens to have a bike lane? The Star's Map of the Week blog presented that dilemma to cyclists in yesterday's map of traffic accidents involving cyclists. With all 1,068 of the accidents reported to police last year plotted on the map, some clear patterns emerge: as you might expect, most accidents with bikes happen downtown on main streets. College (complete with bike lane), Queen, Bay (with its diamond lane), and Bloor all stick out on the map as having high levels of accidents throughout the core and into the west end, while relatively few accidents occur in northeast Scarborough or on the Gardiner.

In a spun-out economy like ours, the idea of black market poultry shouldn't be that surprising. And yet, with news like the following from the Toronto Police Service, the mental image of a Trailer Park Boys-style chicken heist is enough to merit an early morning spit-take.

                                  

Mr. Stickman has the toughest job in Toronto: keeping you safe. In a day's work, he gets smushed, crushed, beheaded, befingered, mangled, strangled, thrown, blown, ground, and crowned. And unlike the relatively delicate spokesmodels who calmly remind you to mind the gap or not to trespass, Mr. Stickman is willing to give the extra effort and actually demonstrate the consequences of not following the rules. Wherever danger lurks, Mr. Stickman plies his educational trade. He endures every manner of indignity, accident, and disfigurement that you can imagine, all in the hope that you will learn from his painful and sometimes deadly misadventures. What follows is a small sampling of his daily work around Toronto.

We hate to burst your bubble, but there's a good chance that the government of Australia hates Canada and all Canadians...especially you. This is, of course, nothing more than a wildly inappropriate and unverifiable allegation on our part, but we do have a bit of evidence to support our theory. You see, Australia's official position on Canada is that we're a dangerous country to visit.

Citing safety concerns, the TTC is removing their "Walk Left, Stand Right" escalator signs system-wide.