Extra, Extra: The State of Church, Musicians Save Your Ears, and Thomson Gets Cuts

By David Topping

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

Church & Wellesley. Photo by Alan Bell from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

• In Yonge Street, Bert Archer writes about the evolution of Church Street.
• Sweden doesn’t think we’re very sexy, and Japan doesn’t think we’re very polite. You could read this important Globe story about how potential immigrants perceive Canada, or you could skip down to the seemingly tangential graph accompanying it.
• Why Twitter was invented: so we could find out that mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson got a haircut. Meanwhile, her team’s been doing some trimming of their own.
• And on Dave Meslin’s blog, experts you can trust and musicians you know (Owen Pallett and Kevin Drew among them) suggest how best to protect your ears during the G20.

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