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Fake Guns Shuts Down School, It’s the Beach by a Nose and Angry Shopkeepers
Reports of a student flashing a handgun forced a shutdown of three east end schools yesterday afternoon. The weapon turned out to be a pellet gun. This was the second incident at Victoria Park Collegiate in the last month. Three students were arrested.
A terrible bus-car crash last night has killed one woman and injured two others. Rescuers had to use the jaws of life to free the trapped passengers. The TTC driver was not hurt.
A Muslim newspaper launched in Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto. The paper is being published by the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada and was spurred on by the Mohammed cartoon scandal earlier this year.
It’s official, it’s the Beach by 58% of the vote. The signs in that east end neighbourhood that is so difficult to name will read “the Beach.” We’re sure that many will still be calling it the Beaches. We also wonder if ward/riding names will have to be changed as well.
Korean convenience store owners protested to the premier that his anti-smoking laws and high taxes have caused thefts to spike by almost %130. The increase in thefts have also caused their insurance premiums to go up.
Overacheiving activist Craig Kielburger has won the prestigious 2006 World Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child. Now 23, he started Free the Children when he was 12. The organization is still going strong today and has built some 400 schools in 23 countries.