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Newsstand: November 12, 2009
Does the city’s equity policy for public skating rinks mean that girls’ hockey leagues should actually get equal access to the ice when that would require “kicking little boys out of arenas so they can’t play hockey?” Did that sound like a slanted question? Welcome to the debate.
A random attack by a screwdriver-wielding neck-stabber on a bus earlier this week has made that TTC riders’ strike we told you about on Tuesday seem like a much more attractive option. Please note, though, that the literati at the Sun (which evidently still employs copy editors) want you to remember that the “riders’ strike” is—technically speaking—a boycott.
On that general subject, just to make commuting even more fun, a new report put literal blood-sucking onto the list of things you can worry about while getting metaphorically bled dry by the TTC. That’s from a warning issued in a study on Toronto’s horrendous bedbug invasion. With a rash of fifteen-hundred reported infestations last year, up from the forty-three reports six years ago, experts in really gross, indestructible, you-eating insects are saying that the overcrowded pests could soon start hitching rides on people, hopping from one to another in offices, schools, and—yes—your subway car at rush hour. It’s the better way to get nasty bugs.
Ha! South of the border, they’re still debating whether same-sex couples should be allowed to wed—so how do you think the anti–gay marriage lot would feel about this particular couple?
Sketchy reports are still rolling in about the huge after-school fight that forced a roadway closure and got one person shot in the back and another one stabbed yesterday afternoon around Don Mills. And what a day for a senseless battle. Between thirty and one hundred youths fought each other in the confrontation, according to police, who also say the fight was gang related.
And reports have surfaced that law enforcement officials were on hand for a different kind of shot a couple weeks ago, when Toronto’s police command got to cut in line for swine flu vaccines. Man, if only there were someone out there who could help us think up a clever line about cops hogging flu shots. Oh well. Happy Friday Thursday.