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After the Toronto Humane Society was raided by the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) Thursday, the media was allowed into the building for a tour yesterday afternoon. What they found was a veritable house of horrors, complete with a mummified cat that had been left to die in a cage in the ceiling. Humane Society president Tim Trow maintains his denial of the allegations, but the profoundly disturbing image(s) pretty much ensures his and his staff’s guilt in the court of public opinion. (Note: the video at the last link is graphic and potentially disturbing).

A Buddhist temple has been set fire to for the second time since May. The attack, which coincides with Martyrs Day, during which many Tamils honour those who’ve died in pursuit of a Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka, where the Sinhalese make up the majority. Although far less damaging than the May blaze, chief monk Ahangama Rathanasiri is obviously concerned at the possibility that ethnic conflict in Sir Lanka is the reason that his temple is being targeted.

A small ceremony to inaugurate work (which will start next year) on the extension of the Spadina Line to Vaughan might have provided the TTC a public relations boost that it desperately needs. Mayor Miller was on hand for the event, and he and Adam Giambrone spoke of the degree to which the .4 billion dollar project will transform the city. “There’s never been a moment like this in the history of this city,” Miller gushed to reporters. He also spoke of the need for a Downtown Relief line. But before we start hoping for that, what are the odds that this first project is actually finished in 2015?

Ten years ago, Toronto was behind every other city its size in the boutique hotel trend. We’ve caught up neatly, but the next two or three years promise to be unusually active ones for this niche hotel market, even if some of the auspicious plans announced in the last year or two end up going bust.

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Why did the Toronto Sun force the TTC to disclose subway suicide statistics? Because the Toronto Sun needs “to speak out for all those victims” and the “publicly funded commission has stuck its head in the sand for a decade” and a “full and public examination of the commission’s response to subway suicides is needed.” It has nothing to do with the assertion that “Toronto subway suicide death toll” makes for a great headline.

The president of the Toronto Humane Society, along with 4 fellow senior staff, were taken away in handcuffs yesterday when police raided the River Street animal shelter. Accusations of animal neglect and cruelty are coming from the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA). This whole situation is incredibly bizarre given that both organizations are advocates for animal welfare.

City Hall spends 0,000 a year on cable television service (that’s for some 100 bills that come in as separate invoices). While the argument can certainly be made that access to local stations and news programming is essential to the duties of many staffers at city hall, the argument can also be made that they could save a bunch of money if they bought a bunch of these and a couple of these.

The TTC has recently released statistics pertaining to suicides and suicide attempts involving Toronto subways. The information, which has long been kept confidential, was requested under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

Although the mainstream media has previously resisted reporting on such incidents, this request was made by what the TTC refers to as “a local media outlet.” Initially denied on account of fear that the publication of this information might lead to copy cat acts, the request was won on appeal and the Information and Privacy Commissioner ordered the information be made public.

Toronto has been criticized by visitors as being a sloppy city, and while that flies in the face of years of (mostly self-directed) propaganda about our civic orderliness, it’s a hard charge to deny, especially when you walk or drive down a street like Eastern Avenue. To the north, there’s the tightly packed homes along Victorian streets, and to the south, the remnants of portside industry, some of it still working, much of it repurposed into warehouses and studios for film, design and photography.

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The TTC is now saying that riders can pay just .25 (the discounted bulk token price) if collector booths have run out of temporary tickets to sell. Finally, they’re playing fair on fares!

Three men in Mississauga have been arrested after allegedly selling undercover police officers a machine gun and 100 rounds of ammo. How much it was sold for hasn’t been disclosed, but I’m willing to bet that these three figured it was worth the risk. Life changes quickly for these guys.

Real estate agents who’d formed two queues dueled over who had first crack at pre-sale units in a 44-storey luxury condo at Jarvis and Charles, set for occupancy in 2013. Anger was spewing after those who’d waited just 10 hours got ahead of others who’d waited 10 days. Like their tempers, the market appears to remain hot, hot, hot enough!

In pro sports, spirit is not everything – winning is. But it appears that Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment have set themselves up for losing off the ice (while their team is abysmal on the ice). MLSE are going to have to act quickly on a City ultimatum to clear our sidewalks of their spray painted illegal ad campaign within 24h or get the bill when the City hires someone to do it for them. In related news, fans also think that MLSE are being unfair by charging too much to watch such a poorly performing team.

Toronto cyclists have much to complain about and generally aren’t shy about airing their discontent. Whether it be the scarcity of bike lanes, the abundance of potholes or simply the fact that our climate makes year-round riding nearly impossible, I think it’s only fair to provide a little two-wheeled perspective on the heels of Toronto traffic safety officer Tim Burrow’s recently compiled Top 10 list of motorist complaints.

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A convicted armed robber is on the lam after escaping custody during a hospital visit in Hamilton. The two prison guards who were his escorts were ambushed by a pair of masked, armed men who then whisked the prisoner away in the prison van, ditched it for another car, and successfully fled. It’s prime time TV action, in real life.

An all-day, all-Kindergarten school is being considered by the Toronto District School Board. It would be an interesting experiment, although I suspect there’s a limit to how much plasticine molding, block sharing, unnecessary crying, pants-peeing, and knee-scraping can go on in one place at once.

“Kick a Ginger Day” may be funny to fans of trash TV’s South Park, but when students at a Halton region school re-enacted the concept by forming roving gangs to beat up on redheads at school, intervention and punishment were required. 25 students have been suspended, and rightfully so. See embedded video coverage below.

Toronto Police used a Taser to subdue a deer that was found wandering downtown this morning.

According to this CP24 report, “The deer had been sitting in a garden near Bay Street and University Avenue [sic] for several hours before police moved in to tranquilize and move the animal.”

The deer was initially shot with a tranquilizer gun around 11:15 a.m. at Chestnut and Edward streets. But the scene became rather involved after members of Toronto’s animal services department were joined by police (including the Emergency Task Force) on the takedown, possibly making matters worse for the deer. It ended up getting tasered.

Toronto traffic safety officer Tim Burrows asked drivers to send him a list of driving behaviour that drove them nuts. Although wandering deer didn’t make the list, most of the usual suspects — like misbehaving cyclists and slow drivers — made the top ten.