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Extra, Extra: Snowboarding in the City, Honest Ed in Washington, and Light Rail Underground

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

  • Snowboarder Sebastien Toutant found a way to take advantage of the December 27 blizzard that covered Montreal with snow, as you can see in the video above. Is there anywhere in Toronto where a rider could attempt something similar? [Via Atlantic Cities]

  • Also out of Quebec, Bloomberg Businessweek blows the lid off Canada’s maple syrup cartel. Apparently the brown stuff costs 13 times as much per barrel as crude oil, but just imagine how good the air would smell if cars ran on it.
  • Honest Ed will march as part of the festivities surrounding Barack Obama’s second inauguration. No, the other Honest Ed. (The Obama part is for real, though.)
  • Here’s a story that, in a better world, would have Rob Ford and other surface-LRT opponents questioning their entire life’s work: some Eglinton-area residents are actually upset that the underground portion of the forthcoming Crosstown LRT is going to be slightly longer than initially planned.
  • Zipcar has been bought out by the man, man.

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  • Mark Moore

    Fantastic video. Kids today . . .

  • Joe McBlow

    Is there anywhere you could try that in Toronto? Nope – not south of Eglinton anyways. Hamilton’s probably the closest bet. There are some sections of the Don that are pretty steep but they don’t have that kind of vertical relief or cliffs – unless you count eroded out river bends as cliffs. There’s a section of Don where people mountain bike over an rusted out abandoned car from the 50s. There’s good mountain biking terrain down there but nothing you could sustain for more than 5-10 seconds on a snowboard.

  • Rian Allen

    The ravines of the Don Valley would be closest thing here in TO but no where near the vertical or Mount Royal.

  • Montreal>>Toronto (still)

    O HAi Toronto, you’re still not Montreal, k? Tkx, bai!

    • Anonymous

      Yes, Toronto is fortunately still itself.

      Do people in Mtl really still use O HAI, k and thxbai?

  • David

    I wonder if they got permission to film in the cemetery. I couldn’t tell whether it was Mount Royal Cemetery of Cimetiere Notre Dame des Neiges.