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Toronto’s New Media
Well, kinda. The much-awaited, revamped Sunday Star is here, as of yesterday, and, as promised, it is new. It even has an article on the meaning of ‘new,’ by fishing and floating philisophist Mark Kingwell. It’s got week-old Times’ crosswords (score! If you can wait a week), chunks of ephemera from Schott’s Miscellany, and a back page summary of everything in the paper. Also, it’s all colour, all the time. The only thing that doesn’t quite gel as of yet are the Harpers-style snippets, hastily pulled from websites, like topics on an exotic dancer’s chatroom. And a business piece on the fried versus the flourishing that tries to compare Tim Horton’s (with thousands of shops across the country) to Krispy Kreme (a novelty shop, with just a few attraction-style locations across the country).
This week also sports a good piece from the ever reliable Jennifer Wells, about TOist’s most mindable Mayor.