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3 Comments June 22, 2010 at 5:30 pm

Extra, Extra: The New Yorker Gets Our Ads, McLovin Gets OId, and the Worst of Rob Ford Gets Tweeted

Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.

All the advertising for the June 28 issue of The New Yorker is Canadian—”every ad page other than a house ad,” reports the Times‘ Media Decoder blog, “has been sold to Canadians: more than a dozen government units, tourism organizations, financial firms and educational institutions.” Inevitably, it’s that way because of the G8 and G20 summits. Eye‘s Kate Carraway is “personally very concerned.“
Torontoist gets invited to all the coolest parties. Yesterday, for instance, we got an email informing us of “Mclovin celebrating his 21st bday in our awesome city.” (The poster’s here.) Yep, Christopher Mintz-Plasse won’t need that fake I.D. from Superbad to drink in his native States anymore, because he’s an adult now. And all adults know that the place to be in Toronto on a Thursday night is Peter Street, to celebrate the birthday party of someone sort of famous whom they’ve never met.
Things that we’re glad exist on Twitter: @shitrobfordsays, presumably a riff on the hyper-popular @shitmydadsays. But only nine tweets?

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rek

Hey Tourism Toronto: Niagara Falls isn’t in, or really all that near, Toronto.
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On the contrary, I’d think it’s close enough that it’s exactly the kind of thing they should be promoting as a reason to visit here. It can easily be done as a day trip or an overnighter, but you really don’t want to spend any more than that there, so why not see it as a part of a trip to a much bigger place that’s an hour’s drive away.
rek

Spending money in the Niagara region is not what Tourism Toronto should be promoting. And if Niagara isn’t worth more than an afternoon, it should be a footnote and not so prominent in the ad.
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