I live near the western edge of downtown Toronto. Our local park is Stanley Park, basically a dog toilet. Hijacked by off leash dog activists. The much larger Trinity Bellwoods Park is only two blocks away. I did a feature on Trinity Bellwoods a while back which included photos. It is a huge urban park that is well used by the community.
Like all public property in downtown Toronto activists and artists feel it is their exclusive jurisdiction. Their puritanical rules prevail. They make the rules and the rest of us can go to hell.
The latest alcohol crackdown at Trinity Bellwoods is an example. Matt Gurney of the National Post has written a great piece on the issue in today's paper. The artist-activist crowd wants a crackdown on open bottles of beer and wine in Their park. The police have written over 200 tickets in the last two weeks. Typical overreaction by the moral minority.
This is precisely why I bought a boat. It was because I wanted a place where my friends and I could crack open a beer in the great outdoors within the shadow of the CN Tower. Anti-fun local councillors like Michael "apple falls close to the tree" Layton and Adam "No Fun" Vaughan have no jurisdiction on my boat. Artists and extreme leftists can wag a finger in my direction but I can display my middle finger back at them.
I pay for public spaces with my taxes but long ago lost the right to enjoy them. They are the exclusive realm of the artistic crowd who insist on scrubbing any signs of laughter and joy from the downtown core.
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