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Extra, Extra: Gladwell Runs, AGO Hides, and Candidates Take Transit
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- Malcolm Gladwell calls it his “greatest triumph!” and at the very least it’s his greatest face. A fan of Gladwell’s found an old Toronto Star photo of the bestselling author competing in what the would-be star runner describes as “the finals of the 1500 meters at the Ontario 14-year-old championships, many many years ago.”
- In time for the thirtieth anniversary of Pride, photographer Rannie Turingan is shooting portraits of thirty members of the queer community—his friends—accompanied by Pride stories from each of them. “Could be about your first pride, a funny anecdote, whatever, as long as there is a positive spin to it,” Turingan explains.
- Over on Spacing‘s Wire, John Lorinc devotes his column this week to wondering what’ll happen when TTC workers’ collective agreement comes up for renegotiation during the next mayor’s term.
- The security zone fence is going up, so it’s getting harder and harder to pretend that the G20 isn’t happening. Added today to the list of things you can’t go to during the summit: the Art Gallery of Ontario, which is now closed early on Friday and will stay shut the duration of the summit.
- In today’s edition of Justin Bieber Ruining Things: Family Circus.
- And if you haven’t heard yet, the Toronto Women’s Bookstore—at very real risk of closing in December—has a new owner, Victoria Moreno. Xtra! has more.
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