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Extra, Extra: Happy Pride, Slower Speed Limits (Maybe), and the End of Mouse Ears Feud
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- “I’m a lesbian and I’m the premier of Ontario. How great is that?” Kathleen Wynne said happily at this morning’s Pride flag-raising event at the Ontario Legislature. Wynne, along with Mayor John Tory and Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 27, Toronto Centre-Rosedale), attended the event at Queen’s Park and City Hall, respectively, to wish Torontonians a happy Pride Week.
- Downtown motorists can almost certainly expect a drop in residential speed limits after tonight’s community council meeting affecting Toronto’s downtown and East York streets. The meeting follows a spike in deaths of pedestrians and cyclists by car drivers, and community council will hear from councillors and members of the public at 6 p.m. at City Hall.
- Electronic dance artist DJ Joel Zimmerman, more commonly known by his deceased-rodent-inspired stage name Deadmau5, has settled a months-long dispute with Disney over the use of mouse ears. The trouble began last year when the media conglomerate attempted to block Zimmerman from trademarking his signature mouse head for too closely resembling Mickey Mouse, who then countered with a cease-and-desist order for unauthorized use of Deadmau5 track “Ghosts n’ Stuff” in the Disney video, “Re-Micks.” The two parties ended their feud amicably, or as we like to say it, à la Disney.