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Extra, Extra: Suspects Charged in Terror Plot, TTC Recommends an Outsource, and ET Hams it Up Around Town
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#ET dropped into #Toronto the other night & did some sight seeing. Check out this shot of #HonestEds. https://t.co/nwJrSLd8bG @CM_Abides
— Johanna (@COLOURintheCity) March 20, 2015
- Two men have been found guilty on all but one charge involving a terror-related plot to derail a Via Rail passenger van. The Star reports that over the six-week trial, the jury heard more than 20 hours of secretly-recorded conversations captured by an undercover FBI agent, who was the prosecution’s key witness. The paper also reports that both men face a maximum life-sentence in prison.
- On the heels of yesterday’s announcement that TTC head Andy Byford was firing two TTC execs for bungling efforts to complete the Spadina subway extension, a TTC report recommends a third party take over the overdue, and over-budget, project. Of the four options the report lays out for completing the six-stop extension, the most expensive of these leaves the project’s management under TTC control.
- Finally, it appears that E.T. has been making his way around Toronto. The brainchild project of photographer Cameron McClelland has seen everyone’s favourite Spielbergian extraterrestrial posed against a bevy of Toronto landmarks, from the Financial District to the Annex. He looks strangely at home here, to us.
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