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Newsstand: January 15, 2010
The damaged section of Honest Ed’s after an early-morning fire today. Photos by Christopher Drost/Torontoist.
While you were sleeping, Honest Ed’s caught fire! The series of photos on Spacing shows the blaze confined within one of the display windows beside the Wine Rack outlet. Details are still sketchy, but a police officer on the scene told Torontoist that only a lightning-quick response from fire crews saved the whole store from going up in flames. According to that officer, arson has been entirely ruled out, the fire is believed to have been started by electrical equipment in the window box, and the fire was just minutes away from engulfing the whole building. The store interior suffered minor smoke and water damage.
Good communication is crucial in any team effort, but that goes double for home invasions. Otherwise you end up like the wonder twins here, losing your heads and firing at an innocent woman before running outside and hailing a cab, with guns at your sides, to make your getaway. And this would’ve been right by two major intersections, just minutes north of Danforth and Woodbine. Yikes.
The Sun might be onto something here. This is all speculation for now, but is it possible that the candidates themselves are starting to warm to the douchily naive suggestion that Toronto should elect two mayors (one for business and one for pleasure nonsense like culture, arts, tourism, education, recreation, “Marketing,” and “Sport”)? How else to interpret what the paper so astutely points out: that the race now includes not just two Roccos, but also a pair of JPs (Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone and now Joseph Pampena)? Forget what we said earlier about not jumping to conclusions; it would be irresponsible not to announce that Toronto will soon become its own twin city.
The TTC’s fancy new subway train won’t have any doors when it hits the rails! Just kidding, it’s not coming at all. At least, not until the manufacturer finds itself a new door factory. The train, prototype of a series meant to replace the old “T1” cars on the Yellow Line, will sport maps that light up at each stop, and gangways (possibly even “doored” ones!) to let passengers move between cars. It was named the “Toronto Rocket” in a virtuoso display of the aversion to forward-looking, trailblazing decisions that makes our transit network not-so-great.
And now, let’s dare to write something less than flattering about Don Cherry—hmm, no, wait, let’s not.
We don’t usually focus on jewel heists, you know, as a thing, but—dammit—when someone goes to the trouble of carving a hole through the roof of an adjoining store, well, you report it! Also, the case is being investigated by York Region Police Detective-Constable Stephen Harper. There. Now that’s a guy you’d better hope has a good sense of humour. And on that note, welcome to Friday.