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Ducharme-Moscoe Fight Continues, Dennis Mills Plans Another Party and, an Urban Legend Comes To Life
Things get worse for the TTC. In light of GM Rick Ducharme’s resignation the TTC have decided to tell him to leave right away instead of waiting around till November. Ducharme is fighting this and threatening to call his lawyers. He also pins the blame for his resignation on interference by TTC Chair Howard Moscoe and even Mayor Miller . Many councillors are now calling for Moscoe to step down. Ducharme is the third TTC GM to quit under Moscoe’s reign as TTC Chair.
The City’s Works committee is getting ready to install countdown clocks on some of the city’s intersections. It is hoped that they’ll make crossing the street safer.
Queen’s Park has introduced a bill that would make street racing illegal. We hope they get this done quickly.
The CBC has documents showing that the terror suspects currently under arrest were being watched for about six months by law enforcement officials.
SARS-stock organizers Dennis Mills and Jerry Grafstein have teamed up with Liberal Party hack Warren Kinsella to organize a “No Fear” party in the Rogers Centre to show the world that Torontonians are undeterred from whooping it up by the threat of terrorism.
It sounds like an urban legend, but the Post reports that a woman is being tested for HIV and other diseases after being pricked by a man with a syringe near the corner of Danforth and Jones.
Finally, we like it, but Christopher Hume feels the new Opera House was an opportunity squandered.
It is a good facility but not grand, functional rather than flamboyant, much too modest to be marvellous. It does the job, but little more. Though it wants to be remarkable, it settles for less.