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Extra, Extra: The Dictator, the Drake, and the TTC
Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- The Post discovered last month that Saadi Gaddafi, son of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, owns a $1.6 million condo on top of a building at 10 Navy Wharf Court, by the waterfront (pictured). Today, we learned that the feds have finally moved to freeze the property, so the Gaddafi family can’t sell it without Canada’s permission. Imagine having the son of an African autocrat on your condo board. “Maintenance fees will remain at their current levels or the hallways will echo with the lamentations of your surviving family members. Buahahahaha.”
- If this photo of a concert rider is authentic, then local-boy-made-good Drake absolutely cannot perform unless his dressing room is stocked with chapstick, Patron, and three (3) types of cheese, among other things. So, you know, just the essentials.
- The TTC unveiled a new publicity campaign today, the gist of which seems to be: “we know things are awful now, but they’ll get better… later.” The greatest of the ads is the one that complains about the TTC’s chronic underfunding. Fares just went up to plug a $29 million shortfall in the TTC budget, despite the fact that the City’s surplus is more than five times that! Fact: user fees are only outrageous when people who drive cars have to pay them.
- Aaaand… Justin Bieber has a tattoo of Jesus now. Aw, he’s all grown up.
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