Extra, Extra: Killer Streetcar Tracks, Undead Websites, and the Private Sector

By Steve Kupferman

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

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• Unsurprising: a new study has determined that streetcar tracks are implicated in almost a third of all serious bike injuries in Toronto.
• The OpenFile deathwatch continues. It was three weeks ago that the online-news site abruptly announced that it would “not be publishing the same amount” for a “few weeks” while it prepared “for a new iteration.” It hasn’t published anything since, and today, more ominous news: John Ferri, OpenFile’s now-former managing editor, has taken a job with his old employer, the Toronto Star.
• Is there anything Councillor Doug Ford (Ward 2, Etobicoke North) doesn’t think the private sector can fix?

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