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Populist: January 21–27
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.
- Sarah Nicole Prickett covered a pro-life billboard downtown bemoaning the horrible horrible loss of children….’s toys. The billboard has now, by the way, been replaced by a Hooters ad. Nice.
- Posterchild’s Vandalist began this week with a hacked billboard advertisement (this week’s most commented-on post). As Posterchild once wrote: “Graffiti is Art, yes. But is it good?” Readers responded to the first Vandalist piece with a resounding “possibly!”
- Robin Rix wrote about Titan taking Toronto to court. If Titan isn’t allowed to keep our buildings warm with its vinyl advertisements, who will? Who will?
- Marc Lostracco featured a passive aggressive note taped up in an apartment building (this week’s most recommended post), and a Dundas Square–shot cover of Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights.”
- Karen Whaley celebrated Torontoist and fellow bloggers’ easy success on trivia show Test the Nation against teams of people whose jobs don’t actually require them to know trivia.
- David Topping featured a hopelessly optimistic mock-up of a TTC map in 2050––and Marc Lostracco gave props to Spacing‘s Matt Blackett for his streetcar map.
- Patrick Metzger wrote about the plight of Stephanie Conover and the letter she got from the Miss Toronto Tourism officials who, uh, determined that quoting Leviticus and accusing someone of Satanism somehow constitutes a good rejection letter.
- Readers’ favourite photo of the past week (by recommends) was Thursday’s photo of a desolate parking lot, by mechrisman.
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