HALLOWHEELIN’

Hallowheelin’, Urban Cycling Challenge's super-creepy scavenger hunt on bikes, rolls out from Manic Coffee Saturday, October 31. 

POLL

CITYSCAPE

Concept drawings for the new Steeles West subway station bring anything to mind? If it’s Will Alsop’s futuristic creature on stilts on McCaul, aka the Ontario College of Art and Design, there’s good reason. Alsop Architects is one of two firms on the station design team. The cone-?shaped structure pictured here will allow light to flow to below-ground subway platforms.

HIDDEN TORONTO

This Ontario Heritage Trust plaque marks the cracked gravestone of former Ontario premier Edward Blake in St. James Cemetery. (Location: lot 47 on C hill.) Blake, who served for only a year (1871-1872), was this country’s foremost constitutional lawyer post-Confederation. 

COURT DOCKET

Looks like five of the six cops implicated in the largest corruption scandal in this city’s history won’t be walking way from perjury and conspiracy charges just yet. The Court of Appeal has overturned Justice Ian Nordheimer’s decision to throw out the charges over trial delays. The court found that there was no unreasonable delay in the disclosure of evidence to the defence lawyers representing officer John Schertzer, et al. Good news for police bird dogs. The charges are too serious to be thrown out on a technicality.

REALITY CHECK

The Children’s Storefront, the province’s first parent-child centre, loses its home of 30 years on Bathurst to fire. But the outpouring of support continues. A meeting to begin the rebuilding process is scheduled for Friday  (November 6) at St. Alban’s (843 Palmerston).

NUMBERS 

H1N1 WATCH

The provincial Ministry of Health quietly notified public health units late last week that supplies of the H1N1 vaccine are more limited than expected. (Surprise.) Vaccination clinics scheduled to begin this week at drop-ins and a few select shelters – the city isn’t saying which – will have to wait until at least November 16, maybe longer. The big question: how many living on the street will be hit by swine flu before the vaccine arrives?