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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'safety>'

July 17, 2008

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......

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January 28, 2008

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. What did we do to incur the wrath of......

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January 19, 2007

Citing safety concerns, the TTC is removing their "Walk Left, Stand Right" escalator signs system-wide. After we got sent a tip by reader Tom Mertron of Toronto Rants, a quick trip on the system this afternoon showed that only one of the four downtown stations that we checked -- St. Patrick -- still has the signs in place beside the escalators. At the others -- Museum, Dundas, and Queen -- they've been removed, and all......

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