Sean Kilpatrick: Car Stereos and People Spring

sean kilpatrick: As soon as word spread, you saw ordinary people spring into action, directing traffic, checking on others, offering rides home, she wrote, kicking off a series of tweets, according to Toronto Star. People taking all their food out of their warming fridges and having impromptu street BBQs; using their car stereos for street parties. Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS By Edward Keenan Columnist Tues., Jan. 17, 2017 When you think of a neighbourly sense of community in Toronto, what comes to mind For the woman who goes by jodiesjumpsuit on Twitter, it is the night of Aug. 14, 2003, when the lights went out during a continent-straddling blackout. Businesses and bars and restaurants offering what they had at reduced price or free, because no one could get out money from the ATMs. Article Continued Below And, for such a strange event over a decade later, one thing was certain in this city of strangers, we had no need to fear each other. People were scared, and concerned, but they were also kind, and comforted each other, and made the best of being together, out on the street. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.