Extra, Extra: Scary Spice, Yarn Art’s Nice, Swastika Iced

By David Topping

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

• If you were thinking that what this mayor’s race needed was a tortured, Rob Ford–mocking reworking of that Old Spice ad—well, you must have very specific expectations of this municipal election. If the video is the best we can do, though, maybe Ford’s the mayor we deserve. [via reader Ian Capstick]
• No Junction streets are safe from a roving band of yarn artists. (How intriguing, as well, that Spacing‘s article was written by a certain “Emma Feltes.”)
• CTV’s billboard ads outside the CBC are now iPad ads, which is just as much an existential threat, really.
• Speaking of things that are gone: that Little Italy swastika has been removed, too.

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