Maple Leafs - Rihanna - Music Video

How to deal with overcrowding on Toronto transit

Car mishap in Markham Ontario

Streetcars remind you that you'd rather not be in Toronto

Atom on the streets of Toronto

Saw this on Bay St. in Toronto. Not sure how this is street legal

Catchy slogan for bubble tea place "Navigating the tea fashion"

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At Metro Square in Markham Ontario

Toronto police car has a flat tire

Caught by P.L. at Yonge and Sheppard

Toronto police mishap

Not sure how this happened...

Photo by P.L.

Free Brita at Yonge Dundas Square

http://www.ydsquare.ca/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&Itemid=40&agid=473&year=2009&month=04&day=22


To celebrate earth day

Pay it backwards day at Second Cup in Toronto

Today at a Second Cup in Toronto, customers will participate in a "pay it backwards". The customers will pay for the coffee of the person behind them in line. Some proceeds to go the Sick Kids Foundation.

http://www.dailychallenge.org/blog/pay-it-backward-day-toronto/

Toronto blogger salaries

Toronto bloggers who make 6 figures from blogging. (thanks j for image)

Website brings Toronto transit into the 20th (sic) century

You can now check in real time when your streetcar is going to arrive

http://www.nextbus.com/wireless/miniRoute.shtml?a=ttc

Short film based on Half Live filmed for $500

2 brothers from Markham, Ontario filmed this short based on Half Live for $500. The Purchase brother's film has received over 2M hits on you tube.



http://www.purchasebrothers.com/
http://www.thestar.com/article/602303

Orchids from Allan Garden in Toronto

Took this the other day at Allan Gardens

My shot of Toronto mayor David Miller

UBC engineers obviously not as skilled as UofT engineers

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Police+arrest+five+engineering+prank/1244619/story.html

Picasso ceramics

I took this shot when Picasso's ceramics were being exhibited at the University of Toronto

York University lecturer hopes strike will give her the qualifications to be a tenured professor

http://www.thestar.com/article/573289

"Lykke de la Cour gets up weekdays at 4 a.m. She finds she writes her best lectures then; she's too tired at night.

She knows this from preparing hundreds of lectures over 15 years for more than 20 courses at York University about women and the disabled and health and law.

Usually she teaches four full courses a year. Most involve two-hour lectures, she notes – each the equivalent of a 50-page essay."

1. who cares what time she wakes up?

2. if she teaches courses on the same topic each year, why does she need to prepare a 50 page essay for each lecture?

York University lecturer has no PhD, but has  been teaching courses for 15 years.   She is complaining that she hasn't received tenure.  Probably for good reason.  Tenured professors do significant research and publish it.  They obtain PhDs and post docs.  Tenured professors supervise graduate students.  Lecturing is a small part of a tenured professor's duty.

de la Cour's and the others seem to have a sense of entitlement.  In a similar argument, my dad worked at the same comany for 25 years.  He should be entitled to be the CEO.

Anyways, there are thousands of universities around the world which have departments in women's studies.  de Cour should try getting tenure at one of these.  After all, if you work at the same job for 15 years and continually get passed over for promotion, its probably time for a new job.

Toronto Star discovers underground textbook copying at least 10 year late

The Toronto Star "revealed" that copy shops around the University of Toronto either let students photocopy text books,  provide students with photocopied text books or both.  Sending an "undercover" reporter to purchase these textbooks the Star then confronted the copy shop employees.  The Star goes on to blame the high cost of tution.  I find this rather amusing. Photocopying textbooks has been going on since I was in University, so this practice has been around since at least the year 2000.  

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/568628

This is similar to when researchers recently "discovered" pre drinking amoung young people (Dec 17th post)

In a search for fame and fortune, U of T third year engineering student Cyrene Wu allowed herself to be photographed for the Star story and professed to using photocopied textbooks.    Is she hoping people will feel sorry for her? University girls in search of fame and fortune normally try to get on girls gone wild (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_Gone_Wild)

For future reference, if the Toronto Star contacts you for an investigative story, point them in the direction of hell, unless talking to them benefits you.