TETHERED THRILLS

Fans had a wild time playing bungee during the Official Super Bowl XLVI party at the Sound Academy at Polson Pier on Sunday, February 5. Check out a photo gallery here.

MIND THE GAP

Whew. We’ve finally got real people, not bankers or KPMG flacks, making proposals on economic policy. And not a moment too soon. The province’s austerity review headed by ex-TD’s banker Don Drummond gets released Wednesday (February 15), and before you get buried in the coverage, check out the thinking of the Toronto Residents’ Reference Panel on Household Income, random citizens brought together by MassLPB at Urbanspace’s installation Mind The Gap: Inequality In Toronto And What To Do About It, running to March 20. It’s inspired by The Three Cities Within Toronto, by U of T prof David Hulchanski, and the United Way’s Poverty By Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty.

TAR SANDS TRIP-UP

According to an Environment Canada announcement this week, we can all lighten up: the feds are going to pump up their eco-monitoring of the Alberta tar sands, so what’s the prob? The new auditing system will be “one of the most transparent and accountable oil sands monitoring systems in the world.” Wow, we’re impressed. But wait a sec – who’s actually overseeing this last line of defence against the carbon-spewing, forest-wrecking, water-polluting bitumen onslaught? That would be the Alberta and federal governments. Can you spell “rigged”?

ON THE STREET

Signs were posted at TTC stops across the city this week, reminding us that Ford won this one: TTC service is being cut on particular routes. More waiting, crowding, angst. Get ready. Photo: Martin Reis

SPOTTED

WHERE 200 Danforth

WHAT The LCBO is turning the old Albany Clinic into a mega-store.

THE SKINNY Not great news, since large retail like the nearby Shoppers Drug Mart horror is out of scale with the streetscape. Is the Dan shedding its charm?

PHOTO: Ellie Kirzner