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Populist: February 18–24
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.
- Throughout Wednesday’s massive Queen Street West fire, Marc Lostracco kept a post updated with the latest news about the fire and some of the photos being submitted to Torontoist’s Flickr Pool (this week’s most commented-on post), while Miles Storey published his set of exclusive photos from the scene in a separate post that morning. Later that day, Marc also featured a stitched-together panorama of the stretch of the buildings along Queen before they were damaged (this week’s most recommended post).
- David Topping broke the news about those Obay ads when Colleges Ontario finally took responsibility for them on Thursday, just under a week after Jonathan Goldsbie first concluded that the organization was behind them. (Stay tuned on Monday: Torontoist will be at Colleges Ontario’s press conference.) David also wrote about a rather unpleasant surprise, courtesy of Pizza Pizza and bottle of Vaseline; and featured a video of a bunch of people happily dancing on the TTC.
- Val Dodge wrote about a new CCTV camera monitoring the Don, presumably to keep it safe from Caribana partygoers.
- Todd Aalgaard and Miles Storey covered Saturday’s protest over Kosovo’s independence from Serbia. Serbians still really, really like Kosovo, and are super disappointed that the state has decided to proceed with a very messy divorce.
- Maneesh Mohindra looked at two new websites aimed at making life easier for parking lot bargain hunters.
- Jaime Woo profiled repertory cinema in Toronto with a new post every day this past week. The future? Somewhere between half-full and half-empty.
- Miles Storey checked out the latest phase in the Museum Station renovation, a joyous project for those who like mysterious shrouded columns and dangerous exposed wires.
- In columns this week, there were new editions of Portrait Project (Adam Giambrone), Povertyville (Family Day), Vintage Toronto Ads (the Cadillac Snowbird), Campaign Confidential (debates), Great Torontoist Challenge (white tea), Wild Toronto (the house mouse), Vandalist (meta-graffiti), and Snappy Answers (TTC mysteries solved)! And now you can even stay on top of when your favourite features are coming up next with our posting schedule.
- Readers’ favourite photo of the past week (by recommends) was Monday’s grainy shot of the HTO beach, by lepagejp.
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