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7 Comments May 23, 2012 at 5:00 pm

Extra, Extra: Tumblrs, Tornados, and Trials

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

Are Toronto's front yards really so terrible?

Another Toronto-based Tumblr for your momentary amusement: Awful Front Yards.

Now that Mayor Rob Ford has evidently given up governing less than halfway through his term—the better to focus on his reelection campaign—Matt Elliott has some suggestions for city councillors looking for productive ways of spending the next 2.5 years.
Jesus Christ, CBC. “Weak?” Are you trying to provoke the tornado? Do not provoke the tornado.
With Byron Sonne’s legal tribulations finally over, OpenFile is spilling the details on all the evidence that couldn’t be reported on during the trial.

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Always great that Torontonians can still take time out to anonymously belittle people who don’t live up to their standards! News!
Spencer

I wouldn’t call those front yards awful. At least their neat and tidy, just not up to some people’s exacting standards.
Anonymous

Brick lawns are terrible. The combination of ugliness and the blatant expression of laziness are revolting. To top it off, lots of folks will go out and waste hundreds of litres of water hosing down their bricks every morning. Get a broom, assholes.
Anonymous

People with brick yards should be slapped.
- Anonymous
  
  With a brick.
Anonymous

It’s absolutely mind-boggling that the police and crown attorneys who persecuted Somme weren’t summarily sacked, and had their collective asses thrown in jail for contempt on the spot. What kind of pathetic, slavering cretins… ?
Eric S. Smith

From the Sonne article: “Corporal Richard Plume, RCMP … and others shot wadded up paper towels out of the cannons in the Guns and Gangs parking lot.”

Thus proving that potato cannons are good clean fun. Man, ruling that anecdote inadmissible was kind of doing the Crown a favour. “Yes, Your Honour, we swiped his stuff and played with it. I mean, evaluated it for terrorism potential.”