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Extra, Extra: Outstanding Toronto Maps, Mayoral Stand-Ins, and Some Can’t Stand TIFF
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- Behold: illustrator Keith Jones’ Toronto maps, created for Vice. He’s got one of the vintage stores in the Ossington area, too.
- While Global News is trying to find out who should be cast in a movie about our mayoral candidates, Shawn Micallef writes for Eye that George Smitherman should be more like Wendel Clark and less like Tie Domi, and municipal politics blog All Fired Up in the Big Smoke extends the hockey analogy to its logical conclusion by figuring out which past mayors are which Leafs alumni. (Barbara Hall? Mats Sundin.)
- Meanwhile, Tuesday’s televised mayoral debate on TVO’s The Agenda is online in its entirety now.
- According to a report from the Canadian Council on Learning, by 2013, 48% of Toronto adults—3.2 million people—will have “low literacy skills” [PDF]. The study, of course, assumes that there’s still a Toronto left by 2013.
- TIFF’s here! Maybe, like half of the people who took CP24’s “What is your favourite part of the Toronto International Film Festival?” poll, you hate it—in which case you might appreciate that the bulk of our coverage of the festival will skip our homepage and be collected on our TIFF 2010 hub, and that, festival be damned, we’re still publishing regular Torontoist articles throughout this and next week.
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