Daily Archives: March 30, 2011

03.30.11
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Good news for cyclists – Ride The City & Google Bike Maps are in town!

This beautiful little Terrazza Bicycle Park, on the north side of Harbord Street near Roxton, is one more indicator that bicycling has “arrived” in Big TO.  Inner city folks love their two-wheelers, and will continue fighting for an expanded, safe bicycle path network.  Inroads are being made.

Two more positive indicators: Google now includes TORONTO and 8 other Canadian cities on its Google Bike Maps site.

And TORONTO is the latest addition – the first North American city outside the US – to appear on Ride The City.  Led by two former NYU planners, this site includes lists of bike stores, repair shops, safe and direct routes – even ways to steer around hills.

Before enrolling, take a look at their blog – http://www.ridethecity.com/blog/ride-city-toronto

03.30.11
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Hieram Weintraub’s “art with a conscience”, 988 Queen Street West

Hieram Weintraub, an artist and children’s book illustrator, has brought the Shark Fin Soup controversy to TORONTO’s WestQueenWest art village.  “LV Whale Shark”, in the front window of Studio Lighting, is accompanied by some startling info on the wholesale slaughter of the ocean’s #1 predator.  <www.hieram.blogspot.com>

- an estimated 100 million sharks are slaughtered annually

- Shark Fin Soup can sell for $400 a bowl

- shark fins have no flavour and no nutritional value

-”finning” is when fishermen hack off a shark’s fins and dump the still living animal back into the sea to drown

- removing the apex predator from the ocean’s ecological chain will have global consequences