P i s t a c h i o

From the Globe archives comes this story about how a Toronto problem could solve a prairie problem.

If we can suck up cold water from the bottom of Lake Ontario to efficiently cool the finanical district’s sky scrapers during air conditioning season, we can do what these farmers propose.

Maybe not then, but wouldn’t we consider it today?

25 YEARS AGO:

The Globe and Mail reported that organic food farmers in Saskatchewan, faced with a spring plague of grasshoppers, proposed a solution to the Toronto gull problem – wing the birds out to the Prairies. The farmers were undaunted by the formidable task of catching and exiling the gulls, which were soiling Toronto’s waterfront. “If science can put a man on the moon, it should be able to transport gulls from Toronto to Saskatchewan,” said a representative of an organic producers marketing co-op.