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Cheque, please: the iPod Touch could change the way we're served (Image: Thibault Poix)
While being served by various 20-somethings between acting gigs, we’ve often wondered if there isn’t a way to depersonalize the situation even more. Now, thanks to the good people at Apple, there is. A new iPod application developed by two young bucks from Laval allows servers to use iPods to take down orders.
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It’s a classic tale of David vs. Goliath—that is, if Goliath, instead of getting his head chopped off, just adjusted his business plan slightly. Canada’s three new wireless providers—Wind Mobile, Public Mobile, Mobilicity—are doing better than expected against Canada’s once-powerful cellphone trifecta, according to the Financial Post. And they aren’t just picking up new teenagers with their cheap plans; they’re poaching long-standing clients.
Jon Stewart shows G20 leaders how to put the moves on Toronto women (Image: Comedy Network)
We’re as guilty as anyone for noting that coverage of the G20 was kind of sparse in the international media, but we knew that our summit (and its associated riot) had finally hit something of a media bonanza when it was featured on the most reputable source in fake news, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. Last night’s segment dedicated to G20 Toronto told the Comedy Central audience exactly five things about Toronto that are worth repeating.
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The old grey lady shrugs her shoulders (Image: Jason Kuffer)
While this weekend’s orgy of vandalism may have been earth shaking for Torontonians, the event left the New York Times decidedly nonplussed. After not mentioning the riots for most of Sunday, the old grey lady churned out a piece in today’s print edition. In it, editors seem to find the staggering number of arrests (over 900) noteworthy, but that’s about all.
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Just don't make fun of the shorts (Image: Karon Liu)
G20 law enforcement officials were handed all kinds of ruthlessly draconian completely understandable new powers to deal with individuals unwilling to show ID to cops. The law that allowed these powers was passed secretly by the Ontario government, leading us to wonder what other activities have been surreptitiously made illegal for the G20 weekend. Some ideas:
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Bandanas: protest police catnip (Image: Martin Poulter)
With G20 fever gripping the city, it seems as though an article can’t get published without having a summit angle. (We admit that we may be guilty of this at The Informer, too.) Sometimes it works, and other times not so much. For a lesson on the latter, the Toronto Star has provided a fashion guide that promises advice for the “militant and fabulous.”
Yes, we know this piece is mostly a joke, poking fun at the predictable attire of protesters, who are often ripe for mockery, but somewhere halfway through it’s as if an editor got a hold of it and suggested real advice. Note the change in tone:
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Peace and protest come to Toronto (Image: Fabio Venni)
The big dailies are issuing their warnings about the onslaught of G20 protesters, many of whom are already converging on our normally well-groomed streets. Careful not to offend anyone, each article clarifies that the majority of protesters, no matter their cause, will remain peaceful. Then they dive right into fearmongering.
Part of the problem is that with so many groups coming, it’s hard to know which ones are patchouli-tinged, pot-smoking folkies and which ones are balaclava-wearing urban terrorists. A chant heard downtown yesterday that will likely be thrown around a lot this weekend is, “We’re all here for our own reasons, they are a few, we are a million.” (Or something like that. Note to chanting protesters: annunciate.) The Toronto Star’s recent roundup of protest organizations was helpful but lacked any kind of ranking and ratings guide. Luckily, we excel at that.
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Concert movies are great, but they often lack a narrative; so in their cinematic ode to Toronto and Broken Social Scene, This Movie Is Broken, director Bruce McDonald and writer Don McKellar created a story set during a show. Filmed during last summer’s garbage strike, the movie (opening on June 25) follows Bruno (Greg Calderone) as he attempts to win over his long-time crush, Carolyn Rush (Georgina Reilly), by taking her to the BSS show at Harbourfront before she moves away. Lovelorn angst, longing subtext and sprawling band footage abound. Here at The Hype, we believe the only thing that goes better with a concert than unrequited love is booze (perhaps some agave tequila, which we hear the band drinks on tour). Thus, we present the This Movie Is Drunken Drinking Game, after the jump.
Greg Calderone and Georgina Reilly in This Movie is Broken (Image: Norman Wong)
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Yesterday, the Toronto Star released a letter from Rahim Jaffer to Mark-Olivier Girard, clerk of the Commons government operations committee, clarifying why he didn’t perform so well at his hearing in April. While the tone is predominantly remorseful, we can’t help but notice how it reads like it was written by a first-year university student asking for a make-up exam. (In Jaffer’s case, it worked; he’s appearing again today.) Students and aspiring politicos could learn something from Jaffer’s backhanded apology. Here, some lessons in spin that can be gleaned from the faded Conservative star.
Bright flight: Twitter users mull leaving a Ford-led Toronto (Image: Rémi Carreiro)
The news that Rob Ford—statesman, mayoral wannabe, Palinesque councillor—is now polling as well as lackadaisical front runner George Smitherman has some Torontonians reconsidering the livability of the city should Mr. Ford actually win. David Topping, editor-in-chief of Torontoist, has suggested a new Twitter hashtag to describe the phenomenon of people moving instead of living in a city run by the cost-cutter: #FordEscape.
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Even the Batmobile gets ticketed in Toronto (Image: Gary J. Wood)
After what sounds like years of conspiracies and cover-ups, drivers finally have a shot against the sneaky tactics of parking officials. Thanks to two plucky city councillors, a formerly confidential document that offers guidelines on when to cancel parking tickets was made public last night. In the Star, Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong explains the adventure: “Myself and Councillor [Howard] Moscoe have been trying to get it released for a long time, and staff have constantly been saying ‘It’s confidential, it’s confidential, it’s confidential…’ Here a group of bureaucrats have set up these secret rules that nobody knows about.” Until now.
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While scanning the Globe’s annual list of the top 40 Canadians under the age of 40, it might seem as though being from Ontario is a prerequisite for consideration (half of the honourees are), but by looking closer, we were able to discern three factors that, if adopted, will help even more Torontonians make the list.
Remember Mad About You? It wasn’t quite Seinfeld and it wasn’t quite Friends, but it was all ’90s. And it turns out that it was scientifically accurate, too. In one episode, comedy ensues after Paul Reiser sleeps through earth-shattering sex he has with Helen Hunt. Well, apparently, this happens in real life, and the Star is reporting that local scientists have discovered that it happens way more often than previously thought.
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