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Extra, Extra: Scotiabanked, Lee’s, and t.o.night
Torontoist closes out each weekday with a quick collection of just about everything we think you ought to care about (or ought not miss)—say hi to Extra, Extra.
Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (It), being installed along the AGO’s façade last week. Photo by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist.
- Somewhat lost in the excitement over the May-long CONTACT Photography Festival is that it’s now the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. “Good news for the festival,” the Star‘s Murray Whyte wrote back in April—there’s $150,000 in it—but wouldn’t it be nice if one bank wasn’t colonizing city-wide art fests one-by-one?
- MoneySense has revealed their list of the best places in Canada to live, and Toronto is #85 (as far as “prosperity” goes). We are apparently only slightly more prosperous than Sault St. Marie (#86), and much, much less prosperous than Burlington (#3). We’ll have to take your word on that, MoneySense!
- And hey, did you know that t.o.night has 109,000 daily readers, according to a press release the organization sent out Monday? That is a lot of people accepting newspapers awkwardly pushed towards them by newsies.
- The National Post‘s Toronto Transit Civility Commission campaign—with faux etiquette posters made by illustrator Steve Murray—continues today with a football-style map of how to get on and off the subway.
- This past weekend, there were many Jane’s Walks. This one was almost certainly the cutest.
- Did Lee’s Palace set the wrong address in Google Maps because they “only want cool people here”? Maybe, but no, probably not.
- Credit where it’s due: this Rosie DiManno column, about abortion and rape in Africa, is excellent.
- Bathurst’ll soon get two new tenants: the Centre for Social Innovation is set to open up a second location on Bathurst between Bloor and Harbord, , and the Drake Hotel is teaming up with Shared to continue the hotel’s expansion of its General Store empire to Bathurst, south of King.
- And if you missed it this morning, we looked at our favourite and least favourite architectural projects up for Pug Awards. 60 Richmond has made basically everyone agree that they wished they lived in Toronto Community Housing.
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