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Extra, Extra: Birds, Songs, Ice Cream, and Other Delightful Things
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
Photo by Remi Carreiro/Torontoist.
- The CNE opened today, and it’s the perfect place to meet your future spouse, apparently. Consider taking advantage of this year’s speed dating services to expedite the process.
- Birdnappers are striking fear into the hearts of Toronto’s parrot enthusiasts.
- Such outlandish crimes against avian-kind would have been unthinkable in the 1950s, when these two ditties about life in Toronto on Sunday and the annoyances associated with subway construction, respectively, were written.
- But Toronto’s innocence hasn’t completely disappeared. We’ve still got a street named after ice cream.
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