Extra, Extra: New Management, New Bike Lanes, and New Barenaked Ladies

By David Topping

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

Photo by Miles Storey/Torontoist.

• Under New Management isn’t a convenience store, but it’s pretending to be one. Murray Whyte profiled the Queen West art installation in the weekend’s Star, and today, the facade is wallpapered up, with a sign saying “LOST OUR LEASE”—or maybe it’s just more art?
• Speaking of the Star, more local papers should follow their lead (well, follow the Star following The Big Picture‘s lead) and create blogs for their staff photographers, because photo posts like this, of Friday’s Swiss Chalet stand-off, are great. (If you missed it, Torontoist’s Stephen Michalowicz caught the decisive moment, too.)
• Now that Jarvis has bike lanes, some new posters have lined the street, thanking the road’s new guests, and not even mentioning the sex workers.
• It’s CBC vs. CTV outside the CBC’s headquarters, but not really. Ceeb blog Inside the CBC notes that CTV has, for a while now, booked prominent billboard ads at Wellington and John, just off the CBC’s turf.
• Frank Gehry’s childhood home will probably be demolished, reports BlogTO. Quick! Who can be more hyperbolic than this commenter?
• According to a Gallup poll, Canada is the eighth-happiest country in the world. Northern Europe—Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands—puts our happiness to shame, though.
• And the Barenaked Ladies’ new video is catnip for transit fans (Mondoville’s right!). The video for “Every Subway Car” was shot at the Halton County Radial Railway, and features two subway cars from 1963.

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