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Extra, Extra: Fruit, Ford, and ‘Forked
Starting today, Torontoist is closing 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.
Square Fruit Market & Groceries at Queen and Euclid, earlier today. Photo by Joel Charlebois/Torontoist.
- Today in Facebook advocacy: “Keep Square Fruit Market open at Queen and Euclid,” created after the Star reported the produce store was being elbowed out of its existing location. “Isn’t there something we can do to keep Square Fruit from being forced out of our neighbourhood?” the group’s description asks, to which we have no helpful response.
- The TTC’s next-vehicle SMS notification system—which lets you send a text message and get back times of the next two buses or streetcars arriving at the stop of your choice, part of a series of new TTC technology—is being prepped for activation: stickers for the system were spotted along College by Laurence Lui. The system (as expected) doesn’t work yet, but it does return weird error messages; the TTC’s Brad Ross tweeted that “a ‘coming soon’ message will be in place shortly.”
- Rob Ford‘s mayoral campaign is healthier than many expected—witness the grassroots support! Too bad one of the ideas he’s pinning his hat on, reducing the number of Toronto councillors to twenty-two, doesn’t add up, according to Spacing‘s John Lorinc.
- Broken Social Scene’s new album, Forgiveness Rock Record, got itself an 8.3 on Pitchfork. Hipster Runoff asks (semi-ironically): “Is it time for Broken Social Scene to ’shut it down’ or do they have a core fan base of cool dads + alts hanging on to the past + Canadians who will buy their albums?” We’ll find out in tomorrow’s Sound Advice!
- From May 22 to 24, commuters will get to travel through the usually off-limits Lower Bay Station, because of switch work. (Bay & St. George will be closed.) When this happened in February 2007, we got pretty excited.
- Raise a glass to BumpTop, the desktop replacement we wrote about last April, who announced this weekend that they got acquired by Google. There’s some speculation that the system’ll be part of a Google tablet.
- And oh, after a month-long fast from food blogging, Taste TO is back. Good!
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