Newsstand: May 26, 2015

In the news today: raccoons are slowly taking over and IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT. (Just kidding... Or are we?) Meanwhile, cyclists can stop wringing their hands in shame over their aversion to making a complete stop at residential stop signs because, as it turns out, leading cycling advocates think it's kinda silly that they're expected to. Oh, and some movie shut down Yonge Street last night. (Will Smith was not involved.)

By Kelli Korducki

It’s not the raccoons’ fault that your food scraps are so darn inviting. Or, so suggests the city’s licensing and standards committee, which approved a staff report yesterday that proposes our ongoing battle against raccoons investigate “human behavioural contributions to urban wildlife issues.” In other words: be less messy, people.

Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard of the Idaho Stop, even if you’ve probably done it. The legal-in-Idaho (surprise!) biking term refers to the slow roll past a residential stop sign instead of a complete and law-abiding halt, and it’s something Cycle Toronto’s Jared Kolb is hoping Toronto can take up. Area cycling spokeswoman Yvonne Bambrick also suggests this might be a regulation worth revisiting. But right now, such changes are very much in the wishey-hopey phase of development; provincial transportation minister Steven Del Duca says “at this point in time we aren’t considering those specific changes to the Highway Safety Act.”

Blockbuster-in-the-making Suicide Squad shut down a portion of Yonge Street between Queen and College streets last night. The CBC felt it was worth emphasizing that “only the stunt doubles” were involved in the high-speed chase scene rather than members of the film’s superstar cast, which we guess is fair enough.