Mondoville Daily Scroll: October 14

Today on the Scroll: one university chooses weapons for poster campaign; another is a contagious gentrification enabler; sub shoppe’s gay dad ad continues to confuse; convenience stores complain about illegal cigarettes; new newspaper columnist is just a little too thankful. Complete details below!

York promotes respectful debate with poster campaign [Marketing]: Bombs, bullets and grenades spouting from mouths meant to encourage students to take a deep breath before they hurl invective at one another. Posted on campus in conjunction with last week’s “Inclusion Day” — whose website flashes quotes by tolerance prophet Kanye West.

New threat on the block [Eyeopener]: Citytv studio due to doom perceived purity of Dundas Street East? Perhaps if you were dining at the now-shuttered Good Tymez Café. Related: the head shop World of Posters, a stubborn hold-out on the record store corner colonized by Ryerson, was paid $2.45 million for the building — and will soon relocate to the Queen and Bathurst area.

Mr. Sub’s Gay Dad Ad: The Exclusive Untold True Story [Toronto Mike]: Backlash from the Canadian Auto Workers has resulted in neither BOS Advertising nor Mr. Sub coming forward to pay the primarily child actors in their failed attempt at wry advertising. But the entire series of contentious commercials, for which the agency was supposedly fired, is still on the air. And they filmed an alternate version of the controversial spot to begin with, in which dad announced he was selling his eight kids to scientific slavery. [Previously on Mondoville]

Illegal cigarette use by teens jumps to all-time highs in Ontario & Quebec; 2009 Toronto results at their highest [press release]: An anti-smoking campaign co-sponsored by the Canadian Convenience Stores Association? Of course not. At issue are all the regulations surrounding the legal sale of tobacco, since May 2008 forced to have their packages covered up behind the cash registers.

Thank You Toronto [Porkosity]: New food columnist for the Toronto Star, Corey Mintz, congratulates himself for getting a real newspaper job “at such a tremulous and transformative time in its history.”

… and more all day today @mondoville.