February 28th, 2008 Andrew Cash
Rinkside sellout
Home Depot banner fiasco a sign city staff is soft on corporate infiltration
By Andrew Cash
For local indie bands, postering in Toronto has never been more challenging. Sometimes the notices get torn down by the city’s vigilant poster squad before the paste is even dry.
But if you’re a mega-corp, the city doesn’t seem to mind when you slather ads all over public spaces – at least not on the pristine white boards of Withrow Park’s outdoor rink, where massive orange plastic Home Depot signs recently marred the landscape.
The background here is that the Depot and Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment ponied up about $80,000 to help refurbish five sad-sack rinks, including Withrow’s, in Riverdale this winter. An open-air Leafs practice at the rink honoured the donation a couple of weeks back.
But after the team bus pulled away, the community was left with a fresh paint job in the clubhouse, some new mats for the dressing rooms and a snow blower – and Home Depot and Leafs signage all over the boards. The Leafs insignias were one thing, but, residents asked, what’s with the orange takeover?
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February 27th, 2008 Andrew Cash
Andrew Cash’s Record Release Show
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new collection of songs release show…..
live analogue presentation of digita….
Whatever you call a record these days Cash calls his new one Murder =
It’s his first solo release in over a decade and he’s celebrating with an intimate show to mark its on-line release
Thursday March 13, 2008
The Rivoli 334 Queen St. W.
Wanna go? He’d love that.
15 bucks at the door or you can buy advance tickets here
He’ll be playing everything off the new record, old solo tunes, Cash Brothers songs, Ursula, and who knows maybe even the odd L’etranger tune.
Show starts at 9:00. with friend and special guest Michael Johnston.
Have a listen to Murder = in its entirety here.
Info on other up coming shows in Southern Ontario is here
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February 14th, 2008 Andrew Cash
Icy stickhandling
Reluctant Leafs fall flat at Withrow PR stunt – maybe they’re just too rich
By Andrew Cash
It’s like a ufo landed in the park and out walked, or in this case skated, the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Scrambling up a huge snowbank at Withrow Park on Monday morning (February 11) to catch a glimpse of the Leafs, who are holding an outdoor practice in my neighbourhood rink, I squeeze into a standing-room-only spot. Sure, I’ve brought my kids, the two-year-old decked out in a Leafs jersey, but it’s me who’s really excited. There’s Mats Sundin actually on my home rink, where I play shinny in the winter and ball hockey in the summer, and Andrew Raycroft standing in the very net I so rarely score on.
This is the rink my Leafs-swagged toddler is learning to skate on. Wow.
A couple of hundred students from two local elementary schools are the luckiest kids in the city this bright and freezing morning.
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February 7th, 2008 Andrew Cash
Mr. Premier, butt out
McGuinty feeds black schools fracas so we’ll forget Libs created the mess
By Andrew Cash
Local democracy is making a comeback, folks, and Big Daddy Dalton don’t like it much.
Nope, our paternalistic preem has wagged his finger at all those irresponsible trustees on the Toronto District School Board who had the audacity – after listening to their constituents and their conscience – to vote in favour of creating an Africentric alternative school.
In calling for residents to lobby their trustees and “put a stop to this,’’ Premier Dalton McGuinty is fanning the flames of an already heated debate that has, up until his meddling, been a model of public participation. There have been forums, committees struck, kilos of newsprint and stacks of reports going back over a decade.
The January 29 board meeting was a gleaming example of local control in action, and not just because trustees voted the right way. The chambers were packed to the rafters with parents, teachers and students, both for and against, sitting side by side.
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