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Newsstand: December 25, 2009
Good morning, everyone, and Merry Christmas! Or, if you’re not full of Christmas spirit, happy holidays! Or, if you’re the Pope, duck! Yikes, it almost would’ve been better if she just threw a shoe at him.
We know how the saying usually goes, but here on the internet, good things actually come in tens, usually bundled in barrages of “top ten” listicles endlessly announcing the best of everything until you can’t take any more. Luckily, we found the best of those lists for you. Seriously, skip everything else and read the National Post‘s ambitious year-by-year countdown of Toronto’s most outstanding urban achievements this decade. You’ll thank us when you find yourself talking about how Dufferin Grove Park transformed the city’s international profile instead of if and where Avatar belongs on the list.
What are the odds of Toronto not getting any snow today? And when did the current, rising trend of warm Christmases start? If you answered “in the ’60s” to both questions, you win! Your prize, sadly, is just a couple handfuls of slush and some overflowing buckets of contempt—the latter courtesy of the Post. I think those guys might’ve revealed a little too much information about their target audience, though, by going with the lede “Remember when Copenhagen was a brand of chewing tobacco?” You know, because, maybe, we don’t.
Now a friendly Christmas reminder from Toronto the Good: you don’t (technically) need alcohol to have fun. That’s great news for those of you who haven’t already stocked up for the office party or what-have-you, because you can’t buy any booze until Sunday—at least, not in closed containers from the LCBO or the Beer Store.
All in all, though, either a lot of upbeat things are happening in the world today, or the media is really ramping up the holiday cheer. Here, for instance, is the Star reporting on the success of its own Santa Claus fund drive! Really, now, how is that not a conflict of interest? Torontoist, for one, is shocked—shocked—at all of this self-serving selfless community service. And that’s the news this Christmas.