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Populist: November 26–December 1
We publish a lot of articles on Torontoist, and sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Populist is a weekly recap, appearing every Sunday night, that features some of the coolest, most interesting, most commented, and most recommended posts from our past week.
- David Topping covered the unbelievable strangeness that was the (fake) bomb scare at the Royal Ontario Museum on Wednesday night, with an interview with the man behind it, OCAD student Thorarinn Ingi Jonsson, two hours before Jonsson turned himself in to police (this week’s most commented-on and most recommend post); a snippet of the most aggressive anti-crystal argument yet; and the open-ended question that eventually came up in pretty much every conversation about the whole mess: is it, you know, art?
- Johnnie Walker looked at Toronto’s ad past, via the magic of YouTube. Highlight: the dude’s mustache in the Bowlerama ad.
- Tony Makepeace’s latest edition of Panoramaist looked up and around at the wondrous eyesore that is Dundas Square/Dundas Square/Metropolis.
- Sarah Nicole Prickett wrote about the Joy T-Shirt Project, a project so endearing and cute that there is basically nothing mean or funny to say about it.
- Ken Hunt wrote about streets.to. It’s like that Half-Life 2 mod that Kevin Bracken wrote about, if that mod was much uglier and not fun at all.
- Amanda Buckiewicz showed us the WSIB’s new workplace safety commercials. Spoiler alert: all the videos are horrifying.
- Jonathan Goldsbie covered the feud between Royson “We should hang our city councillors to make money” James and David “Hey, that was in extremely poor taste” Miller.
- Marc Lostracco wrote about the scourge that is companies’ hidden fees. (Please note: reading article requires payment of a 15¢ Article Access Charge.)
- Jamie Bradburn discovered the city’s smallest, greenest cafe, as well as this cool thing called sarcasm.
- Beth Bohnert wrote about the non-revitalization of Bloor Street East.
- Maneesh Mohindra wrote about TiVo, which is finally coming to Canada approximately three years after almost everyone you know stopped watching television.
- Val Dodge re-discovered a deteriorating old Don Mills Road.
- Annndd readers’ favourite photo of the week (by recommends) was Friday’s shot of Alternative Grounds’s window, taken by lepagejp.
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