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Newsstand: August 31, 2010
Illustration by Matt Daley/Torontoist.
Today: bed bugs take in a movie, candidates take part in a debate, and the law takes its time with a G20 arrestee.
Apparently bed bugs are now film buffs. A moviegoer tweeted about getting bitten at the Scotiabank Theatre and told the Star about bites on her “thighs, bum and back.” Cineplex, which runs the Richmond Street theatre, said it hasn’t had any complaints. All of this is, of course, bad timing, considering TIFF is days away. The festival’s co-director tweeted that they’re on the case to make sure the theatre is “itch-free” before September 9. Is nowhere safe? [: And here’s Torontoist’s report about the potential bedbug situation.]
The man who was arrested near the G20 zone with a crossbow in his car way back when is still in jail. Gary McCullough, who security is aware actually didn’t have anything to with the summit, has mental health issues and is one of the last still being detained. The Crown says McCullough is a threat to the public, but his side says it’s a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time…with the wrong possession. When not in jail, he lives a hermit-esque life in cottage country, in a self-constructed cabin.
Rocco Rossi is still hoping for an upset in the upcoming mayoral election. Yesterday, Rossi’s campaign unveiled its plan to push for recall resignation, which would allow politicians to be fired mid-term. There’s been a media hubbub, Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella endorsed Rossi, and he’s switched his campaign manager, but polls have not been kind, placing him with about 5% support.
And speaking of the election, the mayoral candidates were on hand at St. Lawrence Hall to debate historical sites last night. Rossi was there, and so was one of the lesser-knowns, Rocco Achampong. Side note—what are the chances of two Rocco’s in the same race? Anyway, Achampong argued that heritage gets lost in the shuffle in the larger culture file and isn’t made a priority. The others said stuff, too, but we hear from them all the time.
Those crazy kids are at it again. Two teenagers have been charged after a highway chase in a stolen Hummer resulted in said vehicle plowing into three OPP cruisers. But it didn’t end there—police called off the chase for safety reasons, and later caught up with the delinquents in a restaurant near the mall parking lot where they left the car. Burlington police were called Saturday afternoon, after the Hummer was reported stolen in the Niagara Region.