Newsstand: July 3, 2015

Friday morning news! Masaharu Morimoto in Toronto, Trinity Western University, and taxi drivers in Toronto.

By Tannara Yelland • Illustration by Matthew Daley

Iron Chef and Iron Chef America personality Masaharu Morimoto has a restaurant slated to open in Toronto in 2016, but apparently he hasn’t yet settled on the type of cuisine he’ll serve. Morimoto is in town for this weekend’s Taste of Toronto festival “to figure out what Torontonians like to eat.” Morimoto doesn’t know much about the city’s food scene, although he is friends with local restauranteur Susur Lee, so maybe Lee can help him out.

BC’s Christian Trinity Western University was dealt another blow in its fight for law-school accreditation when an Ontario court upheld the Ontario law society’s refusal to accredit the school. Trinity Western has a covenant that prohibits students from engaging in sexual intimacy outside heterosexual marriage. LGBTQ students (and those who don’t believe in marriage) are nominally allowed to attend the school, although they are still required to sign the covenant, which the court argued means students have to disavow their identities. The court also found that the law society “did engage in a proportionate balancing of the charter rights that were engaged by its decision and its decision cannot, therefore, be found to be unreasonable.”

Taxi drivers have threatened to stop working during the Pan Am Games to protest Uber. While Toronto Taxi Alliance spokesperson Sam Moini said a strike is “absolutely the last thing that we want,” drivers are upset that the ride-booking service has moved into the city. “It’s not us that wants to shut down the city,” said Sajid Mughal of the iTaxiworkers Association. “It’s the mayor who is pushing us.”