It’s video like this (at left) that makes us want to learn more about Latin American politics. In a soccer match designed to show that Bolivian president Evo Morales and his main political rival could play hard but still keep it clean, things went a bit awry when Morales kneed Luis Revilla hard, and where it counts. It might be a big fail when it comes to keeping it clean on the pitch, but it’s a big win in terms of YouTube hits right now (10,129, and it’s been posted less than a day).
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A modest proposal for Toronto politics: more Bolivia-style junk shots
283 University of Toronto students’ diplomas recalled due to typo
This will cause a lot of gloating around the offices of such institutions as Carleton, Ryerson and York, we imagine. A typo on the diplomas issued by the University of Toronto in July has led to them being recalled like wonky Toyotas.
According to the Toronto Star:
The mistake, which incorrectly identifies the title of a signatory, has resulted in a diploma recall for nearly 1,350 recent graduates from U of T Mississauga.
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When cats go missing at Pearson, the Star is there
Don't fence me in (Image: Quinn Dombrowski)
There are days when reporters never stop running after a story. There are days when they battle with sources to get the information a well-informed public needs. There are days where Paris Hilton or Britney Spears does something. And then there are days like yesterday, when little of note happens, and we get this story from the Toronto Star:
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Five reasons why Malcolm Gladwell is a super-genius with world domination ambitions
And he's popular with ladies (Image: Lindsay Smith)
By now, everyone—yes, everyone—is familiar with either Malcolm Gladwell or his well-marketed ways of connecting disparate dots to create zany, counterintuitive conclusions. He’s received some press recently to coincide with an upcoming F5 Expo speech in Vancouver (Canadian media tends to go gaga when our high-profilers come back). Combing through it, we came to a counterintuitive conclusion of our own. Once we connected the seemingly random factors embedded in his interviews with the Globe and Mail and Canadian Business, we realized that Gladwell is a super-genius, albeit it a patriotic one, bent on world domination.
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Toronto has a wealth of lame loos, but a dearth of story ideas
(Image: Eric Schmuttenmaer)
In a story remarkably similar to one done by Citytv two weeks ago, the Toronto Sun spent 741 words last weekend discussing the fact that public toilets are—wait for it—gross. Both pieces start with reader submissions on where the city’s worst bathrooms are (apparently subway stations; Kennedy and Kipling are the worst offenders), followed by a list of where the cleanest washrooms are. Here is how each media outlet described Kipling station:
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East versus west side story: Now Magazine runs out of cover ideas
Toronto Life's east versus west map, March 2001
Which section of the city is cooler, the part east of Yonge or the part west of Yonge? This being Toronto, the jury is still out on this question—and will likely stay that way until the end of time—largely because it falls into the same category as “Betty or Veronica?” The latest issue of Now does its best to capitalize on the long-standing but meaningless debate by laying out the arguments for both sides: the east has better ice cream (Ed’s Real Scoop), but the west has the best burger (The Queen and Beaver); the west gets too much attention, whereas the east benefits from “divine neglect.” In the end, they confirm the debate’s irrelevance by not choosing sides.
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