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Newsstand: June 12, 2015
The Gardiner debate is over and it looks like Mayor Tory's so-called hybrid option of maintaining the expressway is in the cards for our future. That, plus a little tow truck drama and poutine restaurant expansion, round off your Friday morning news.
Yesterday afternoon, city council voted 24-21 in favour of preserving the Gardiner as an elevated highway, despite criticism of that plan from every former living chief planner and a growing slew of experts. Work on the expressway is expected to begin in the next five years.
A man is in police custody after allegedly stealing a tow truck and crashing it into a flower bed. The CBC reports that the man was involved in a collision on Highway 400, then allegedly stole the tow truck that came to tow his crashed car. OPP officers quickly tracked him down, and after a brief foot chase, arrested the man, because karma is a
If you’ve noticed lately that Smoke’s Poutinerie restaurants seem to be popping up everywhere, it turns out you were onto something. The Toronto-based gourmet poutine restaurant has announced plans of going global, aiming to open 1,300 restaurants worldwide by 2020. Its first U.S. location opened last December in Berkeley, California; Las Vegas and Hollywood restaurants are set to follow soon.