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Extra, Extra: Rossi’s Bad Ads, Eye‘s New Hope, and Ford Fiestas
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Rossi’s Bocce Balls: they’re real, and they’re crap-tacular. Photo by Jamie Bradburn.
- Those new Rocco Rossi ads aren’t parodies, or a joke. They are very real, and very awful. Torontoist’s Jamie Bradburn has already spotted them in the wild—in Little Italy, no less. A Rocco Rossi mayoralty? Fuhgeddaboudit!
- While the Globe and Mail is set to unveil its new design in a week’s time, Eye Weekly is getting a “complete redesign” in time for spring, new editorial director Laas Turnbull told Marketing Magazine. Also, Eye‘s “definitely…hiring more people” because “we’re understaffed at the moment.” So long as there is more of this and this, thumbs up.
- Here’s much more data than you’d ever need for the going rate for marijuana in Ontario. Just be glad you don’t live in Nunavut.
- A ways back, we suggested that people promising on Twitter to leave Toronto if Rob Ford won the mayor’s race—which, uh-oh—use the hashtag #FordEscape. Today, that hashtag was a trending topic. (We suggested, also today, that Ford supporters use the hashtag #FordFiesta.) Global’s Jackson Proskow thinks we’re “hysterical,” and he probably hasn’t even seen these yet. This has been your Monday Twitter update.
- And if you were ever wondering what a $3.95-million penthouse overlooking Lake Ontario looks like, here’s Toronto Life.
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