Results tagged “littlemosque”

Well, it's about time. Two years after launching downloadable television shows south of the border, Apple has finally flipped the switch here, albeit with a dearth of content. Single television episodes are available via iTunes for $1.99, and full seasons range from about $10–$30. Most of the shows currently available are for domestic productions, like CTV's Degrassi: The Next Generation and the CBC series Little Mosque on the Prairie, but non-Canadian shows, like South...

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David Suzuki, Green Avenger and Captain of Awesome, says that Torontonians have the right to know what pollutants are in the air we're breathing. 75% of the industrial pollution in our urban air is not being disclosed to the public! Save us, Suzuki!

You can't throw a brick without hitting a blogger who has an opinion on CBC's new show, was that it made a great excuse for the CBC to give away lots of shawarma. (In the presence of camels, of course. Because you can't spell "shawarma" without "camels.")

In order to promote their new show, , the CBC organized what they called "the World's Biggest Halal Shawarma Sandwich" -- a 300-pound shawarma, right in the middle of Dundas Square. Torontoist loves good street threatre and it loves free food, and this provided both, so why not go? Heck, there were camels and everything. Nothing says "entertainment" like camels!

Hungry Torontonians are no stranger to shawarma. Simply a rotating column of chicken, beef or lamb, it is arguably the best food import from the Middle East since domesticated wheat (and that's a good 5000 years!).

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