The St. Lawrence Centre’s stage door (Image: jbcurio)
We hate to break this news to our gentle readers, but apparently Rob Ford doesn’t like unions. He really, really doesn’t like them. Nor do many of his allies on council, even the folks who used to run a union, like Giorgio Mammoliti. So, although there’s no reason to think that the mayor’s office is involved in this particular blow-up, we can’t help but think this is a sign of things to come. The blow-up in question? Technical workers at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Performing Arts (owned by the city) have been locked out by management.
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Torontonians woke up this morning to find that the U.S. State Department had put our fair city on the same list as Jamaica and Ethiopia, thanks to the G20 summit. In the language of the U.S. government, travel alerts are usually reserved for “natural disasters, terrorist attacks, coups, anniversaries of terrorist events, election-related demonstrations or violence,” as well as less dramatic stuff, like the World Cup (South Africa currently has a travel alert). Of course, the rest of Canada has wanted people to stay out of Toronto for decades now. 
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