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Extra, Extra: Where Mayoral Candidates Stand, Where Bixi’ll Go, and Where Do Toronto Cops Learn to Use Twitter?
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
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- If you’re one for spreadsheets of mayoral candidates’ policies, today’s a good day. After This editor Graham F. Scott tweeted asking whether one existed, Nick Warzin made a publicly editable spreadsheet in Google Docs of the leading candidates’ stances on issues big and small. Or, rather, it was publicly editable, until we tweeted a link to it, and nogoodniks started messing with it. Now, the sheet’s still publicly viewable, but you have to request permission to edit it.
- Well, we know Rob Ford’s stance on gravy trains, thanks to his latest weird animated video.
- Here’s a map of where Bixi will be when it launches, if it gets the one thousand members it needs. Right now, it’s 15% of the way there.
- And the TTC is considering replacing some subway station ceilings with “easier to maintain” and fancier looking ones. Chair Adam Giambrone shared a photo of what they might look like; for now, they’re being tested at Lower Bay Station.
- And a bit of Twitter drama today, as Toronto Police public relations officer Tony Vella freaked out when, in reply to his tweet about Caribana, Canice Leung—who works at Metro—tweeted a G20 joke. Vella apparently took Leung’s reply to be equivalent to “changing the msg in a tweet + RT’ing it,” and asked whether a user could be suspended for it. Then Justin Stayshyn joked that such a thing was called a “twettle,” which Vella didn’t realize was another joke. If you’ve found the previous few sentences pretty confusing, then you have a lot in common with Toronto Police public relations officer Tony Vella.
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