The Hulu dramatized series based on Margaret Atwood’s lurid 1985 potboiler The Handmaid’s Tale has recorded a morbid scene smack in front of City Hall Tuesday morning. A body of red-uniformed handmaids is seen yanking a rope that sends several persons (men and women apparently) to their deaths on a massacre-sized gallows. The grim scene is on Instagram and must have been quite a show from the window of Mayor Tory’s office. Sometimes the world-class mantle does not sit very comfortably.
ALSO (AND MORE SUITABLY) AT CITY HALL
The Executive Committee voted Monday to boost the budget for shelter, support and housing by about $222,000 to buy menstrual products and dispensers for City-run homeless shelters, drop-in and respite centres as well as some neighbourhood community centres. City Council will vote to finalize this on Thursday. Ward 13 member Kristyn Wong-Tam led the move to do this.
