[TOR] Some Monday news links
Aug. 4th, 2008 09:14 am- Paul Weinberg at NOW Magazine ("No perfect victims") touches briefly on the reasons why some people are supporting
Toronto's Omar Khadr despite his family's decided dodginess. - Torontoist's latest edition of The Daily Photoist makes me feel almost crystallized.
- People are still taken aback by the story of Igor Kenk, a man who stockpiled more than three thousand stolen bikes in a dozen or so different locations across west-end Toronto (one of these is just up the street from me), recently released on bail. With a bodyguard.
- John Barber's in The Globe and Mail's Saturday edition used the recent apparent death of Albert Fulton, a militant Wychwood Park resident who may well have ended up drowning himself off the Toronto Islands, to underline the similarities between these two exquisitely managed neighbourhoods of Toronto.
- Torontoist's David Topping has a commentary at the National Post ("Toronto the safe") taking apart the claims that Toronto's exceptionally dangerous among big cities or that Toronto has grown increasingly dangerous over time.
- Today is John Simcoe Day! (More on that later.)