This week a little birdy told us something worth knowing, we tipped our hats and our moustaches to our fellow gentlemen, and we didn’t let a few parking tickets get in the way of our memories.
This week, the T in T-dot stood for “thoughtful”…
We Made Twitter Meaningful
While pick-up artist Julien Blanc was tweeting despicable trash and the rest of the Twitterverse was pumping out its usual dismissible musings, Urologist Dr. Rajiv Singal at Toronto East General Hospital live-tweeted a prostate surgery to raise awareness and create dialogue around the topic during the great month of Movember.
There were photos, facts, and invitations for questions posted while the team at East General saved someone’s life from a form of cancer that represents up to 24% of male cases. If there has ever been a more thoughtful and worthwhile use of social media, we haven’t seen it. And man, are we glad it came out of our city.
Speaking of man…
We Made Our Men Proud
This week, Toronto was a great place to live if you had an X and a Y chromosome. Movember events officially kicked off with a soirée at First Canadian Place, marking the social start of a very important month for men’s health. But we can do even better for our boys. So tonight, the city kicks off another installment of The Gentlemen’s Expo at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. A celebration of the life of a modern gentleman, this event covers everything from food to furniture to professional fighting. They might act tough sometimes, but deep down, every guy just wants to be loved. Lucky for them, Toronto has more than enough to give.
We Put Our Veterans Ahead of Our Quotas
If you live in Toronto, you are well aware that the parking situation is atrocious. Not only is parking expensive and difficult to find (especially at 12:01am), but the smallest slip-up or expiry on your voucher usually results in a swift ticketing or a heartless tow across the city. Parking enforcement is way out of hand and unfortunately that even showed on November 11th as a bunch of cars in Scarborough and East York were ticketed around Remembrance Day Events. But our newly elected Mayor-to-be made it clear that he was having none of that: “…those that have done it have been told that it wasn’t the right thing to do…there are steps underway to rescind those tickets…everybody will get the memo next year.”
Hey – this guy is all right so far.
And so is the city he has so graciously offered to look after.
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