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Extra, Extra: Opposing Gay Marriage and Defending Cyclists’ Right to Life
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Gordon Lightfoot with his daughter at Occupy Toronto yesterday. Photo by {a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/6350978822/"}occupyilysian{/a} from the {a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/torontoist"}Torontoist Flickr Pool{/a}.
- Sometimes a guy—even a world-famous, iconic musician—just needs to be a dad. Yesterday that guy was Gordon Lightfoot, who paid a visit to the Occupy Toronto camp yesterday, shortly after eviction notices were handed out to the protesters there. Turns out his daughter has been camping there since the beginning, and he wanted to make sure she was okay.
- In other Occupation-related matters, two lawyers lay out the constitutional arguments for and against evicting the camp in St. James Park—helpful context since an Ontario Superior Court judge will be handing down his ruling on the subject on Saturday.
- The Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance is an American group opposed to gay marriage. They have now hired, as some sort of spokesperson, former Toronto sportscaster Damian Goddard, who was fired by Sportsnet earlier this year for tweeting about this particular issue. Goddard discusses said termination in a six-minute video produced for the Alliance, uploaded to YouTube on Friday. We can’t say it produces any sort of sympathy.
- “Our mayor once said he thinks cyclists who die in traffic have only themselves to blame, and he characterizes bike lanes as part of a “war on the car.” In the real history of that imaginary war, cyclists have inflicted approximately zero deaths on car drivers.” Ed Keenan at the Grid, on how we all failed Jenna Morrison, and the many other cyclists killed in collisions with trucks in Canada.