Extra, Extra: G20 Security, “Reasons to Love Toronto,” and Sherbourne Commons

By David Topping

Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.

Photo by BruceK from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

• Notes photographer BruceK, who took the photo above a few days ago and just added it to Torontoist’s Flickr pool: “Eleven days before the G20 summit in Toronto, heightened security is already evident in the CBC building. These uniformed officers appear to be guarding a flat-screen television in the Barbara Frum Atrium. Final score was Japan 1, Cameroon 0.” So long as there are no saplings around, we’ll be okay.
• Sherbourne Commons, the winner of Torontoist and Waterfront Toronto’s competition to pick a new name for Sherbourne Park, drew some jeers today (alongside some press). For a competition in the public’s hands to name a public park, it fits pretty well though, no?
• This morning, Toronto Life got their “50 Reasons to Love Toronto” feature, from their June print issue, online. Included: Regent Park’s transformation, zombies, Drake, this, etc.
• And the G20 was scary enough without protesters wearing giant fibreglass heads modelled after world leaders, thank you very much.

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