Extra, Extra: Bloor’s Trees, Miller’s Exonerated, and Pampena’s Vision

By David Topping

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

Bloor Street East’s new trees. Photo by Lodoe-Laura Haines-Wangda/Torontoist.

• Bloor Street east of Yonge just got a whole bunch of new trees, a long-deserved addition to a pedestrian-unfriendly strip thanks to the street’s revitalization project.
• Mayor Miller was not the aggressor in yesterday’s dramatic child–mayor Sugar Beach showdown, a reverse-angle National Post photo reveals.
• From the Star last week, a fascinating profile of mayoral candidate/businessman/publicist J.P. Pampena, who’s blind, and who’s calling himself “the Man with the Vision.” (He made it to all three TTC union town halls, which has to count for something.)
• Today, we revealed the esteemed panel of judges who’ve been tasked with whittling the massive number of new Toronto slogans submitted by the public down to just ten finalists. Tonight’s your last chance to impress the panel: submissions close at 11:59 p.m.

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