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Torontoist Week in Review: May 25-29
A lot happens in the course of a workweek. Here’s a look back at the top stories from the past five days that you might have missed, or might care to revisit.
Canada Square building at Yonge & Eglinton. Captured by Tony Lea via the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
North Toronto showed the city some world class NIMBYism this week, as neighbours worried that prospective homes on their street “only” worth $500,000 could attract “transients” and negatively affect surrounding property values. Wyndham Bettencourt-McCarthy argues that by increasing inequality in the city and a lack of access to affordable housing, the NIMBYs have already won.
From the article:
These residents, and those involved in NIMBY causes across the city, want to isolate themselves from ‘transients’ and other Torontonians that they deem undesirable. They want to erect a wall, as one member of the Alliance proudly stated, similar to the one in the Game of Thrones series, which will keep them “safe” from outsiders. The sad thing is, they’ve already gotten their wish.
This is how Batman rolls up to see the Mirvish production Once.
Photo by Jason Cook from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
Has Toronto policing reached its logical conclusion, with Batman’s fascist vigilante ways patrolling our streets? Naw, it’s just the film shoot for Suicide Squad.
From the article:
Over the past few days, Suicide Squad has taken over the streets of downtown Toronto, offering onlookers a sneak preview of the 2016 blockbuster. The sights have included a helicopter crashing into a bus, Batman jumping onto the Joker’s shiny car, the new look Batmobile, and Harley Quinn generally being badass.
The doors to Yuk Yuk’s. Photo by Jae Yang from the Torontoist Flick Pool.
Jess Beaulieu writes about the normalized sexism and misogyny in comedy, and how that should change.
Then one day I thought, “Or maybe I’m not imagining anything. Maybe every female comedian has struggled with the same degrading, objectifying, misogynist bullshit. And maybe if we all spoke up about it and fought together as a unit, things could change.”
Photo by Empty Quarter from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
Steve Munro urges Torontonians to think of the bigger picture in the Gardiner debate, and how, once again, transit is being left behind. Jennifer Bonnell also looked at the Gardiner debate from the historic perspective of the Don River Valley and waterfront.
From the article:
Council will easily spend hours or days debating what to do with the expressway, but if that is the only issue on the table, they will miss the bigger picture. Toronto is beyond the point where travel into the core will grow or even be sustained by the existing road network, and the focus must be on better transit.
Our monthly sex column looked at Toronto’s relatively small porn scene, and how some participants want to grow it by doing something different than what comes out of the Los Angeles area.
From the article:
“We’re looking for people who are attractive and who look like people you would see in real life.”