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Extra, Extra: Blue Bike Lanes, Green Downtowners, and a Red-Faced Toronto
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- Spacing‘s got a great new column, “Ideas for Toronto.” The first: blue bike lanes, introduced to much success in Portland more than a decade ago.
- What’s Drake up to? Not much. Just getting an airplane with his face on it, and getting sued by Playboy Enterprises over “Best I Ever Had.”
- Is it okay to laugh a little about the G20 yet? We all did quite a bit before it started, but now it’s pretty hard to. Still, there’s some release to be found in these Photoshopped images of Jennifer Hollett running away from things, born out of Torontoist photographer Nick Kozak’s shot of her running away from police in riot gear. Or there’s this parody Bad Lieutenant movie poster, made and sent to Torontoist by Evan Munday.
- If you missed last weekend or this week—or are still digesting it all—Torontoist’s ongoing G20 coverage is collected here. As far as G20 coverage elsewhere goes, we defer to Eye‘s Kate Carraway, who’s been doing a great job of curating in her “Required Reading” column. Go here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
- The Star‘s map of the week: “cars as a percentage of households,” based on data from 2006’s census. When will downtown residents end their war on car ownership?
- Just in time for Pride, Joe Pantalone (mayoral candidate and councillor for Ward 19, Trinity-Spadina) has promotional condoms with “Not your average Joe” printed on them. Said Pantalone: “a Pantalone mayoralty will be an effective prophylactic against diseases like rampant privatization, service cuts, transit delays, and divisive politics.” You, sir, are a clever one.
- And for all you Twi-hards who read Torontoist—so, everyone who reads Torontoist—as-yet unspecified members(?) of the Twilight cast will be at the Scotiabank Theatre on Sunday, for the premiere of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, reports the Canadian Press. What’s a G20?
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