Rob Ford's Toronto

[evvabeing]

http://www.kijiji.ca/v-clothing-men/city-of-toronto/famous-sandro-lisi-rob-ford-sweater/1100014250

 

[evvabeing]

Ex board moves to extend Muzik’s lease to 2034

As a result of multiple meetings with Toronto Police, Ontario Provincial Police and the ACGO, both Binetti and Starkovski said a new and improved security plan has been set in place. More cameras and new walk-through metal detectors have also been installed for the club’s reopening on Sept. 12.

“We feel fully confident that this will become the safest entertainment venue in the country,” Starkovski said.

The board also decided to spare after-party for Drake’s annual summer concert known as OVO Fest from the chopping block.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/09/04/ex-board-extends-muziks-lease-to-2034.html

 

[evvabeing]

Muzik seeks right to put on wider variety of events

Muzik Nightclub operators say they can curb potential gun violence if Exhibition Place’s board of governor’s allows them to host a wider variety of events.

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/09/04/muzik-seeks-right-to-put-on-wider-variety-of-events

 

[evvabeing]

http://iconosquare.com/p/1066692762387418729_608021346

 

[Kat_YYZ]

Ex board moves to extend Muzik’s lease to 2034

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/09/04/ex-board-extends-muziks-lease-to-2034.html

Ughh...

live link:
http://www.newstalk1010.com/news/20...-nightclub-confirms-they-had-security-cameras

extract:
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Of course, it is always tough to choose between two such impeccable news sources as the Sun and 1010.

probably it went something like: "yes, we have cameras.... let's go look at the tape. Oh, it's got some blank spots, some blurry spots... gee I don't know what happened. I swear it usually works." Then the cops and the Muzik guys throw back their heads and share a big belly laugh and go for a drink.

 

[pattycakes]

Good old Mammo:

"Toronto Zoo continues to bleed cash"

"Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti, who sits on the management board which oversees the city-owned zoo, had a different view of the causes behind the money bleeding.
“The reason there is a decline in the number of visits at the Toronto Zoo over the past couple of years is because I am no longer the chair of the board,” he said in an email."

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/09/04/toronto-zoo-continues-to-bleed-cash.html

 

[W. K. Lis]

Good old Mammo:

"Toronto Zoo continues to bleed cash"

"Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti, who sits on the management board which oversees the city-owned zoo, had a different view of the causes behind the money bleeding.
“The reason there is a decline in the number of visits at the Toronto Zoo over the past couple of years is because I am no longer the chair of the board,” he said in an email."

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/09/04/toronto-zoo-continues-to-bleed-cash.html

More than likely, it's cheaper to see the animals at a city council meeting.

 

[riffraff]

Ex Board seeks to extend Muzik's lease to 2034.

Thank you Mayor Tory for your excellent choice in appointing Georgio and Jim K to balance the positions of the area councilors on this important civic issue (tho I do suspect that Mammo is still smarting from council's rejection of his brilliant suggestion to put a Red Light District on the Toronto Islands).

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Good old Mammo:

"Toronto Zoo continues to bleed cash"

"Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti, who sits on the management board which oversees the city-owned zoo, had a different view of the causes behind the money bleeding.
“The reason there is a decline in the number of visits at the Toronto Zoo over the past couple of years is because I am no longer the chair of the board,” he said in an email."

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/09/04/toronto-zoo-continues-to-bleed-cash.html

He is partly right - he can serve as the new star attraction behind bars at the zoo instead - and I can think of a few who can join him in the Political Animal pen as well.

AoD

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

On another note, the lease for Muzik got renewed for close to 20 (!) years by the Board - still have to be approved by council:

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/09/04/ex-board-extends-muziks-lease-to-2034.html

You got to wonder why councillors' whose wards are as far away from the site should have a seat on said board.

AoD

 

[JWBF]

Good old Mammo:

"Toronto Zoo continues to bleed cash"

"Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti, who sits on the management board which oversees the city-owned zoo, had a different view of the causes behind the money bleeding.
“The reason there is a decline in the number of visits at the Toronto Zoo over the past couple of years is because I am no longer the chair of the board,” he said in an email."

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/09/04/toronto-zoo-continues-to-bleed-cash.html

If they had proper transit, like the proposed Malvern LRT, going to the zoo would be easier.

 

[junctionist]

The location is lovely--there are actually farms surrounding the zoo with old Victorian farmhouses that still have Toronto addresses. Scarborough has the best natural scenery in the GTA. But it's rather inconvenient to get to. The out-of-the-way location means people don't think of it that much. It would be more successful with a more central location.

 

[adma]

The location is lovely--there are actually farms surrounding the zoo with old Victorian farmhouses that still have Toronto addresses. Scarborough has the best natural scenery in the GTA. But it's rather inconvenient to get to. The out-of-the-way location means people don't think of it that much. It would be more successful with a more central location.

Yet the reasoning at the time was that the expansive "wilderness" location was state-of-the-art and more sensitive to zoo animals' needs. Also, the status quo of modern-day autocentricity was taken for granted (at least until the gas crisis hit a year before opening)

 

[DSCToronto]

The location is lovely--there are actually farms surrounding the zoo with old Victorian farmhouses that still have Toronto addresses. Scarborough has the best natural scenery in the GTA. But it's rather inconvenient to get to. The out-of-the-way location means people don't think of it that much. It would be more successful with a more central location.

Yes, it's a hell of a trek out there and quite expensive too. It's a great setting for a zoo but having an LRT there would certainly boost attendance. Perhaps the pandas should start a "subways, subways, subways" campaign! I am sure the chimps would join in and Mammo would not be far behind.

 

[evvabeing]

During the great menagerie boom of the nineteenth century, it was well known that hunting animals for trophy and capturing them for zoos were almost the same activity. Several animals usually had to be slaughtered to retrieve one live specimen from a herd, and many of those specimens died during sea voyages to zoos in Europe.

Those that survived were put in barred pens that dramatized the “wild beast” on display, bringing it close while keeping it at bay. The point was to feel man’s place at the top of the animal kingdom, and to see what one London broker of exotic beasts called “life-sized fragments of the empire.” As authors Eric Baratay and Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier write in Zoos: A History of Zoological Gardens in the West, “the public’s relationship with the animals was based on attraction and repulsion, curiosity and fear.”

By the beginning of the 20th century, rumblings about animal welfare had begun, along with a desire not just to gawk at the specimen, but to watch it move around and act like a wild thing. Zoos got rid of the bars, expanded the pens, and hired architects to create “natural” environments, instead of the pagodas formerly used for exotic appeal. Still, there was increasing concern about the effects of a constrained, totally managed life. Rilke’s famous 1902 poem about a panther in Paris’s Jardin des Plantes – “It seems to him there are/ a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world/ As he paces in cramped circles, over and over” – was reinterpreted as a near-clinical description of stereotyping, a form of repetitive pointless activity common to zoo animals suffering from mental illness.

Zoos shifted ground again, claiming that education and conservation were core purposes. But “the majority of people do not come to the zoo for an educational experience,” say Bob Mullan and Garry Marvin in their book, Zoo Culture.

“I haven’t seen anything empirical that shows there’s real education going on,” says Rob Laidlaw, executive director of Zoowatch[*], a Toronto-based advocacy group that successfully campaigned to have three elephants removed from the Toronto Zoo last spring.

In any case, people can learn far more from the vast array of nature programs available on television, many of which show animals in their natural habitat. The Animal Planet series Meerkat Manor, for instance, used infrared cameras and a remote-controlled platform to get an intimate, long-term look at African mammals that many viewers knew little about.

Zoos show no more about the lives of animals than an extraterrestrial could learn about humans by studying them only in prisons.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/glob...ng-to-the-zoo-again/article17725161/?page=all

*fwiw... the group is zoocheck, not zoowatch