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Extra, Extra: David Miller Picks Dan, Arcade Fire Picks Danforth, and Brantford Picks Off Heritage
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- David Miller made a cameo on CTV’s Dan For Mayor on Monday night, and since we didn’t watch the episode, we can only assume that Miller threw the weight of his endorsement behind Wessex mayoral candidate Dan Phillips, and that Joe Pantalone is jealous.
- The demolition of forty-one historic buildings in Brantford started yesterday, much to the dismay of heritage buffs. The Star‘s Photo of the Day blog has some of Tony Bock’s photos of the sad scene, plus shots of the buildings as they stood a decade ago.
- Arcade Fire just announced two concerts this Friday and Saturday, at the Danforth Music Hall. First-come, first-served tickets go on sale at noon on the days of.
- The Post charts out George Smitherman’s not-particularly-visionary “civic vision,” after the mayoral candidate met with the paper’s editorial board on Tuesday.
- And the Sun gets neighbourhood reaction to that Starbucks-in-the-Junction thing. The mood? Ambivalent. Predictably.
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