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Extra, Extra: Subways, Subways, and Subways
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- Mayor Rob Ford thinks people want subways. Or, as he memorably put it during a special meeting of council in March: “Subways, subways, subways.” At the moment, with last week’s Metrolinx decision, Toronto is committed to light rail, to Ford’s probable dismay. But no matter what kind of transit ends up being built here, the video above will stand as a lasting YouTube testament to one man’s fight against the seemingly inevitable.
- As we know, Toronto is not a friendly environment for new food trucks. The Globe argues that we’ll have this guy to thank if that ever changes.
- And finally, to further Fordify an already-quite-Fordy post: can you believe this is a real headline?
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