Extra, Extra: @rebelmayor, Shops, and Jason X’d

By David Topping

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.

A sign for Daniel et Daniel (or is it @danieletdaniel?), on Carlton Street. Photo by Remi Carreiro/Torontoist.

• Could the person behind William Lyon MacKenzie’s Twitter account, @rebelmayor—interviewed here in December—be @HimySyed? Global’s Jackson Proskow thinks he caught Syed making a revealing mistake today. But let’s just say we are not unfamiliar with Toronto’s first mayor, and we think that Syed’s not the one filling his pantaloons.
• Today’s thing you should read if you haven’t yet: “The shop around the corner” by Laura Trethewey from last week’s Post, a look at ten neighbourhood stores, one for each of the last ten decades.
• The Star‘s Joe Fiorito is one among many who really hate cartoonist Jason Kieffer‘s new book The Rabble of Downtown Toronto for its depictions of Toronto’s homeless. Kieffer’s suther-land of “Korean Crack Whore”s and “Retarded Crack Head”s, Fiorito argues—not unjustifiably—is “hurtful” and “awful.”
• Workopolis, which still exists, has a new logo.
• Jane Siberry is giving away her discography online, in MP3s and “studio quality” AIFFs, including album artwork. “IT IS FREE, A GIFT FROM JANE. TAKE GOOD CARE OF IT. AND ‘PAY IT FORWARD’ TO OTHERS.”
• The Star, meanwhile, has updated its “traffic death map,” showing fatalities on Toronto roads going back to January 2008.

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