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Extra, Extra: A Shortlived #MillerMania, and a Rough Night for Hill Fans
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- At the Siemens Green Cities Challenge forum yesterday, David Miller said he has no plans to run as an NDP candidate for the Toronto-Danforth riding, nor does he plans to run for the federal NDP’s leadership. Today, after Xtra reporter Rob Salerno asked Miller if he’d run to lead the Liberal Party of Canada, a mini-meme with a #MillerMania hashtag also had our former mayor aspiring to be a “sandwich expert” and declaring he is “running for the leadership of NDP, Bloc and Liberal party but does not support merger.” Yep, it’s Friday.
- Toronto is North America’s ninth-greenest city, according to a report commissioned by electronics and electrical engineering company Siemens. San Francisco was the first city overall, and Vancouver placed second. Despite Toronto’s ambitious waste management and recycling efforts, we were held back by having a 40-minute average commute, the longest amongst the 27 cities included in the report.
- How bad is Toronto’s gridlock? Bad enough to organize PR stunts around, apparently. This week, a runner raced an Aston Martin DB9 along a 2.5-kilometre route through downtown streets, to raise awareness for an upcoming fundraiser run through Yorkville. The winner? The “guy in dorky shorts with little more than a pair of gangly legs,” who didn’t even break a sweat.
- Toronto may have fewer Lauryn Hill fans today following her show last night at the Molson Amphitheatre. Hill made the crowd wait two full hours to see her after the show’s previous set, by Nas. AUX reports that, once she actually got on stage, her performance was less than stellar: “When she wasn’t singing in fast-forward she was dishing out unrecognizable arrangements of some of Miseducation of Lauryn Hills‘s most memorable cuts—’Everything is Everything’ sounded like ringtone karaoke, for example.”
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