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Newsstand: December 22, 2009
How soft on terrorists is too soft on terrorists? When we decide not to force them to pray to an open toilet, says the Metro. Unusually, the commuter paper ran a much longer article on the subject than their partner outlet, the Star, which they used to detail the shocking news that inmates aren’t in perpetual solitary confinement and—and—sometimes they get to watch TV. Quick! Write your MP!
If you were eager to adopt an animal rescued from the Toronto Humane Society, then it’s our sad duty to ruin Christmas, because the shelter is now expected to stay closed through the holidays. On that subject, why is CTV suddenly being so careful with their wording, only saying that the OSPCA “claimed” they found that mummified cat inside the dysfunctional shelter? Is someone suggesting the cat was planted there, cage and all?
Hey, it’s a weekday. Where’s the Adam Giambrone (Ward 18, Davenport) media-op? Ah, found it. Not to sideline the importance of the awesome future Sheppard LRT, we’re just intrigued by this weird situation where the Post‘s blogs are starting to act like the Giambrone campaign’s Twitter feed.
The province is now strictly enforcing a new law against running an unlicensed college and charging students for unrecognized programs. On a fully separate note: the Torontoist College of Internet Studies is going on an indefinite hiatus. Maybe the BlogTO School of Journalism will take you.
We wanted to mention the potentially looming sale of the LCBO but thought we should wait until this hilariously incompetent loser former premier Ernie Eves had his chance to weigh in. I guess it’s safe to talk about it now that he’s finished gloating about the hypothetical offers being foolishly considered by Ontario Liberals magical talking unicorns in his head. Good thing Eves never personally oversaw a disastrously bad sale of public property that continues to harm the province to this very day, because then he and his political allies would look like a bunch of lying gasbags. Oh, wait.
This article originally included an item about “the National Post‘s Rob Ford.” Ford, obviously, is a councillor, and not a columnist; Spacing named a cranberry cocktail in honour of yesterday, the first in a series of “drinks, desserts, and snacks that are catered to our very own political leaders.”