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Newsstand: September 2, 2011
Remember when Caitlin got engaged to Joey at the cottage, only to find out he’d been doing Tessa all summer? Time to move on, Friday! Today: Doug Ford’s sneaky megamall plans, Toronto Police Board shows backbone, Oakville perv hides in bathroom, and the deepest of TV voices retires.
In the latest twist in the seemingly out-of-the-blue new plan for Toronto’s waterfront, it seems the plan wasn’t so out of nowhere after all. Crafty vizier Doug Ford (Ward 2, Etobicoke North) may have kept his megamall/monorail vision from those pesky other councillors who are supposed to help make decisions with him, but did not fail to discuss it with one of the world’s biggest mall operators and a “long line of local and international investors.” Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 27, Toronto Centre-Rosedale) has already called him out for failing to include council on major decisions, and sure, the plan may sound a bit off the rails, but… Monorail, guys! MONORAIL!
In the first bit of good news to come out from the Toronto police in a while, nine officers disciplined for removing their name tags during last summer’s G20 summit have been refused promotion. Not that Chief Bill Blair, who has repeatedly defended police violence during the protests, had anything to do with it. In a rare break from their previous rubber-stamping ways, the Toronto Police Board denied the promotions, which had been requested by Chief Blair. The Star says the issue of whether to promote officers with bad records has long been a bone of contention. Could the lingering post-G20 bitterness finally be hitting home to someone inside the blue fortress? (Naw. That’s just us in the media making a big deal of the stupid G20 again. Don’t we know it happened more than a year ago? We should drop it already.)
It’s always a bit weird when someone’s toddler pokes its head into one’s bathroom stall, but imagine the same from a full-grown man. Not quite as cute. Halton police say that’s what happened to women in an Oakville public washroom on Tuesday, and say they know he did it for more than an hour because that’s how long it took them to get there. A suspect was arrested and is in custody. (We think we know his favourite episode of 1990s SNL.)
And finally, in the only news that really matters, CTV national news anchor Lloyd Robertson signed off for the last time Thursday night. He’d worked for CTV for 35 years and CBC before that, delivering the news with gravitas since Prime Minister Stephen Harper was “barely a boy.” (This is how we count time now. Get with it!) So long, Lloyd. Stay classy.