Extra, Extra: We Hate the G20, NOW Hates the Star, But Everyone Likes Free Outdoor Movies

By David Topping

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

“And to your left, you will see Toronto’s famous…fence.” Photo by BruceK from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

• The G20 is one week away, and if you’re done studying Torontoist’s guide to how everyone in Toronto will be affected by it, and still haven’t decided to flee, we’re going to want your eyes on the street for us. Early next week, we’ll share what we’re doing on June 26 and 27 for the G20, and how you can get involved.
• All things considered, it doesn’t seem unreasonable that the Star made an editorial decision to not give the Rob Ford–Dieter Doneit-Henderson OxyContin phonecall any attention when they learned about it earlier this month, right? Don’t tell that to NOW, who suggest that the paper may even have been “sitting on the story to protect Ford and his run for mayor, despite the obvious questions the incidents raises about Ford’s judgement” [sic]. You may remember that NOW mistakenly outing Adam Giambrone was also the Star‘s fault.
• Won’t anyone—NOW?—tell Katy Perry where in Toronto to go see “museums, exhibits (beside harry potter)”? She’s desperate.
• In the wake of the guilty pleas from Aqsa Parvez’s father and brother for murder, D.B. Scott at Canadian Magazines asks: “Was Toronto Life right?” For asserting one story as proof of a larger problem that didn’t and doesn’t exist, the answer’s still no.
• That big fibreglass Stephen Harper head is exactly as horrifying as we expected.
• And from BlogTO, a list of “Outdoor movies in Toronto this summer.”

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