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Toronto’s Portlands are home to many strange and beautiful things. Recently added to the industrial array is the partially deconstructed hull of a massive cargo ship.

There is something terrifying about the prospect of an enormous vehicle torn apart. Forgotten vessels such as this have seen so much of the world, and yet reach such inglorious ends. To find an item like this in Toronto is even more bizarre, and immediately reminded me of the distant shores of Alang, where over half of the world’s ships go to die.

Photo: “Traffic on University Ave.” by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.

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We’re expecting to learn today whether or not the Supreme Court of Canada will uphold or overturn previous decisions in lower courts that mandate the federal government to apply for repatriation of Toronto-born Omar Khadr. Khadr has been held in US custody in Guantanamo Bay, without trial, for more than seven years now. A federal level court has already found that Khadr’s rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms had been breached, but the government wasn’t ready to let the courts have influence on foreign policy.

Adam Giambrone is in training. He’s “ready” to be cute and do pushups on Youtube. He’s ready to throw a party on Monday night. And if he doesn’t finally announce his mayoral candidacy at that party, I’ll buy and then proceed to eat a February Metropass and post the video here.

TripAdvisor says that the dirtiest active hotel in Toronto is the Howard Johnson Inn and Suites in Scarborough, but undercover Toronto Star reporters found it to be not all that bad (for the price) when they visited to investigate. So… are TripAdvisor user reviews not accurately assessing hotels, or did these reporters have low standards? We’ll probably never know, because we’re not all that inclined to see for ourselves.

Photo: “TO.keh…” by Chewie 2008, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.

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Another week, another photo of a TTC employee doing something dumb: a streetcar rider snapped away as his driver stopped on the busy 501 Queen route to get some cash at a bank machine, holding passengers up for an estimated seven minutes. While less visually damning than the sleeper photos, the behaviour is actually far worse. With a sleeper, you might be in store for a free ride, but when a driver goes on break mid-route, traffic goes haywire.

The Star wants to know what you think about the state of Yonge south of Bloor. After dumping on the strip in a previous article, the paper was contacted by Joe MacDonald, a member of the Yonge BIA, who invited the writer on a guided tour of the street. What he saw was an area in the process of revitalization. The question is, has anyone noticed?

You can forget the talk of a bridge to the Island Airport — now the controversy will surround a plan to build a pedestrian tunnel instead. Or will it? With the Toronto Port Authority seeking to finance the project by boosting airport improvement fees and private sector investment, there will be no request for public funding. That’ll make their plans very difficult to halt. And, hey, at least pedestrians will be safe down there.

Photo: “portal to the sixth dimension” by jentse, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.

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Everyone is talking about the recent spike in pedestrian deaths on Toronto streets, and much like when cyclist Darcy Sheppard was killed, it’s turning into a walkers versus drivers feud. For example, Spacing’s Dylan Reid found this CBC The National segment appalling for focusing the blame too much on pedestrians. But is it really unfair to put emphasis on pedestrians? For one, many drivers get professional training and all are tested before they’re licensed – but the same isn’t true for pedestrians, who have to learn on their own. Furthermore, it’s the people that are walking that are the ones getting hurt and killed, right? I think it’s important to avoid the us v.s them pitfall here. On a related note, Posted Toronto has shared a map of the pedestrian fatalities in Toronto so far in 2010.

Going night clubbing in Toronto can be fun, but due to the very nature of things (alcohol, drugs, pheromones, competition, etc), it can also come with risks. A study by Ryerson, U of T, and St.Michael’s Hospital has found that those risks are real and can be observed in emergency response and hospital visit data related to assaults.

A 72-year old, 90lb grandmother is being credited for helping put an end to one allegedly naughty family’s “reign of terror” over an Orillia neighbourhood. With any luck no more dog feces will be thrown or firecrackers set off in the middle of the night, after she’s been granted a peace bond,

For someone who’s not yet running for mayor, Adam Giambrone certainly has his campaign in high gear. In an attempt to pump up the hype surrounding his upcoming “Celebrate Toronto” party — AKA the announcement of his official decision to run for mayor — he’s taken to YouTube with a mildly amusing series of spoofs. References range from David Miller to Taxi Driver in the approximately minute-long clip.

But will this approach endear him to younger voters, as is so clearly intended?

The discussion surrounding pedestrian fatalities, street crossing bylaws, and the car-friendly design of our city continues to rage on unabated. Despite interludes provided by sleeping TTC fare collectors and Adam Giambrone party invitations, the cold reality that something disturbing is happening on our streets clearly remains at the forefront of the city’s collective consciousness.

The official response, however, has been less than reassuring. Toronto police were out in full force yesterday, ticketing those deemed to be jaywalking at a number of downtown intersections. Does such a strategy have any hope of effectively reducing the number of pedestrians involved in motor vehicle accidents?

I doubt it.

Photo: “recycle it” by Rondel Jackson, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.

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Apple unveiled the iPad – the latest must-have tech toy in the casual mobile computing world. Pricing, design, and functionality look impressive (although it is not much more than a giant iPod Touch). A few misses though: no camera (the thing seems perfectly fit for video chat), no multi-tasking (it can’t be taken too seriously without it), and still no support for flash in the mobile Safari browser. What is yet to be determined and will be interesting to see is what kind of pricing plans Canadian mobile data carriers will choose to offer when the iPad eventually makes it here in a few months time (the telecoms are, no doubt, thinking “ka-ching!”). And with a massive glass surface, I foresee a lot of uninsured, non-refundable breakage in the future.

Sometimes all it takes is a phone call from a newspaper to fix a problem. But what if The Star hadn’t been informed by a reader that the overhead traffic lights along the Gardiner Expressway were on all day? Would anyone have noticed? How often does this happen? Hopefully it was a rare glitch and not a regular occurrence.

The TTC is taking the opportunity to make vast improvements in customer service after a “perfect storm” of wrongs including a fare hike, major outage on the Yonge line back in November, and the recent PR nightmare that was the “TTC sleeper” incident. I must say, I really do like the idea of a Passenger “Bill of Rights” and hope that one becomes reality in the future.

Photo: “Warning” by mandrs, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.

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The disturbing trend continues. The Toronto Asian escorts has seen 14 pedestrian deaths due to accidents involving vehicles already in 2010. By comparison, Toronto has had just three homicides so far this year, making us more than four times more likely to get run over by a car than have our lives ended by a murderer.

In not-so-breaking news, Toronto housing has been declared not-so-affordable by a study The Demographia International. Creating demand for cheap housing on the fringe of the city, which encourages sprawl, is part of the problem.

ChemTRAC, the nation’s first municipally mandated chemical tracking and reporting bylaw, is being introduced in Toronto and will be phased in over the next couple of years. The idea is to force companies to log and report on chemical use in hopes that reduction and more environmentally-friendly alternatives might be pursued. Seems easy enough for a beer producer to hop on board, but I’m not so sure that industries that work with harsh chemicals will be as enthusiastic about the new supply and waste logging requirements.

While the sleeping TTC worker fiasco has mostly boiled over now, there’s still plenty of residual fun being had in Photoshop and online. One “photochop” enthusiast has been particularly busy (definitely not while at work though, right?!). Another imagines that the sleeper wasn’t all that thrilled by Avatar 3D.

Over the course of the weekend, the now famous fare collector, George Robitaille, spoke to the media. But before apologizing, he also made it clear that we, the people, need to keep our priorities in check. I hate to break it to you, George, but nothing stops senseless, juvenile fun with computers. Not even the disaster in Haiti.

As the transit story that’s taken the city by storm unfolds, more and more fodder is available to the photo manipulating masses. I’ve collected and shared a few of the funnier ones here, and suspect that many more are still to surface in the coming days.

Photo: “Thinking” by AshtonPal, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.

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TTC Chair and City Councillor Adam Giambrone is poised to announce his candidacy for the mayor of Toronto in the upcoming municipal elections in October. In an invitation sent out this weekend, he’s asked supporters to join him to “celebrate Toronto” at a “night of…excitement” at Revival night club. I wonder if he plans to step down as TTC Chair during what will no doubt be an intense campaign, or if they’ll need to allocate even more tasks to third party blue ribbon panels as a result.

The TTC appeared to have had another inadvertent blip in their web development process when the long-anticipated and soon to launch “online trip planner” was accessible to the public ahead of its official launch. After reading about it on Spacing, I gave it a try and found that it was so buggy and prone to error that it can’t be poised to launch all that soon.

Tim Hortons is about to take another bite out of McDonald’s fast food breakfast market share – by introducing their own version of the popular Egg McMuffin sandwich. On the rare occasion that I’m famished and on the go (usually in rural parts), I’ll grab one of Tim’s current breakfast sandwich offerings, but never on that buttery scone thingy it comes with by default. Having an English muffin option seems like the next best option, I guess.