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Newsstand: April 10, 2012
Tuesday just wants to be your friend. So stop fighting it and let the idea of being friends with a day get less weird. Some news may help: Metrolinx releases details on their evaluation of council's LRT plan, the Jays lose in first game at home, the Maple Leafs blame themselves for losing, good news for the High Park Zoo, and donations are down at the Daily Bread.
In case you were worried that public transit was starting to fall out of the daily news digest, here’s a date to circle in your calendar: April 25. That’s the day provincial agency Metrolinx will release their recommendations on city council’s modified LRT transit plan. Metrolinx is assessing the plan, which was voted on after much debate in the council chambers and on the streets, based on cash flow and feasibility. So expect all of this to be pretty straightforward and unifying, like all the transit reports and opinions and projects that have come before.
Beer sales were limited, but sadness was not, as the Blue Jays lost their home opener against the Boston Red Sox last night. The Jays entered the ninth inning with a 2-1 run lead, but Boston managed to score three unanswered runs, winning the game 4-2. And so the exuberant sounds of the sold-out home-town crowd quickly turned to the familiar call of the Toronto sports fan: boos for the home team.
Speaking of those local sports teams, the Maple Leafs are apologizing for their poor performance this season. In a letter signed by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Chairman Larry Tanenbaum and published in newspapers today, the team says they take full responsibility for losing so much. Which makes sense.
The High Park Zoo may get the funds it needs to keep zooing through to the end of 2012. We’ll have more details on that coming up later this morning.
Donations are down for the Daily Bread Foodbank’s Spring Drive. The food bank has until Friday to raise $120,000 more in financial donations and collect 255,000 pounds of food in order to reach its spring targets. And though the Spring Drive is typically slower than Christmas and Thanksgiving donation times, the Daily Bread’s executive director says by this time last year the food bank had reached 72% of its financial goals. Just sayin’.