Extra, Extra: Cussing Councillors, Selfie Stick Bans, and Tragedy at Toronto South Detention Centre

By Kelli Korducki

Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not to miss.

Video still courtesy of CTV News.

• You can’t say that on TV…or can you? Today Councillor Gord Perks (Ward 14, Parkdale-High Park) dropped an accidental F-Bomb on live television while talking about the calculations for filling the city’s budget deficit. How F’ing embarrassing!
• Local heroes, the Art Gallery of Ontario, are considering a ban on selfie sticks—those embarrassing smartphone extension arms that are growing in popularity among narcissists amateur photographers. But sheer tackiness isn’t why the ban is being considered. Instead, it’s a size consideration. AGO spokesperson Andrea-Jo Wilson told CTVNews.ca: “We anticipate them being banned from gallery spaces like other large objects.”
• The Star reported this morning that the Toronto South Detention Centre was on lockdown yesterday after a week of violent disruption that included an inmate’s suicide and the discovery that a set of the jail’s master keys were missing. Monte Vieselmeyer, the corrections division chair for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, told the paper: “The staff I talk to are not happy with the way it’s being run. Some have referred to it as a death trap.”