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Extra, Extra: Provincial Debates, Biking to Work, and Liberty Village Turds
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- Today, the northern leaders’ debate was held in Thunder Bay. Andrea Horwath took on Kathleen Wynne over the gas-plant cancellations. Wynne attacked Tim Hudak’s plan to cut 100,000 public-sector jobs. Hudak, for his part, was busy at a Peterborough town hall dealing with hecklers yelling things such as, “Shouldn’t you be in Thunder Bay?”
- Hundreds of cyclists biked to work today in Toronto. Doubtless hundreds of cyclists bike to work every day in Toronto, but they don’t generally meet at specific points throughout the city, form a “rolling parade,” and then end up with a pancake breakfast. That’s because most days are not Bike to Work Day.
- Dogs are to Liberty Village what horses were to many metropolitan areas before the widespread use of cars: bringers of turds and turd-related troubles. “A recent walking tour around the neighbourhood reveals dog waste scattered across Liberty Village Park and the adjacent streets.” The area, it seems, has a growing problem with poop—or rather, with the people who are supposed to be picking it up dutifully after it has been produced and are instead, apparently, just leaving it free to scatter itself all about.
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