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Wakestock is admittedly not my cup of tea, and if I can avoid it and its fans I will try (see post below), but it’s a big city and there is space for everybody to play. Yet The Star’s<\/em> fine music and culture writer Ben Rayner is reporting<\/a> of some rather atrocious and disturbing activity on the island this past weekend:<\/p>\n

The dirt bike daredevils on the “freestyle moto-x” circuit, meanwhile, were left sitting atop their jumps while some dude with a scissor lift and a chainsaw hacked out chunks of the aged trees they were hitting during their wilder ascents. <\/em><\/p>\n

The motocross antics are always a guilty, polluting pleasure. But watching some beautiful old-growth foliage defiled when the cityscape across the harbour was half-obscured by a brown film was kinda horrifying. <\/em><\/p>\n

“I give you air and this is what you do to me?” exclaimed one of De La Soul’s three MCs — I’m not sure which one because I was watching the firewood fall with everyone else — in the middle of their spirited early-evening set. Fifteen minutes later, he was rather more direct: a cry of “Do not<\/em> cut down any more f—ing trees!<\/strong>” was heard echoing over the discount sporting-goods displays. Some of us were already too upset to watch anymore.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We hope that random cutting of trees was not part of Wakestock’s contract with the City of Toronto — and that appropriate penalties will be levied. Rayner did a good job capturing the mood of this event, and also this particular trangression, even though he perpetuated the myth that you can’t swim in Lake Ontario.<\/p>\n

(Thanks to Jonathan of the Public Space Committee for pointing this out, and thanks to De La Soul for sticking up for Toronto’s trees.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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