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Extra, Extra: Find Your Streetcar, Move that Garden Car, And the Young Ford Carbuncular
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- A comprehensive, real-time map of where the TTC’s streetcars all are? Sure: here’s Where Is My Streetcar?, a good complement to the TTC-sanctioned NextBus (which offers real-time next vehicle arrival info) and Google Maps (which, however great, doesn’t yet).
- Kensington Market’s beloved “Garden Car” may be moving out of Kensington Market, and soon.
- After Monday night, there’s a lot of new blood on city council—from Kristyn Wong-Tam snapping up Kyle Rae’s vacated seat to Mary-Margaret McMahon absolutely trouncing Sandra Bussin in the Beaches. Patrick Cain has built a ward map showing the way each ward went.
- Steve Murray was so confident that he’d win last night, meanwhile, that he prepared this pre-recorded victory speech, only to find himself having to deliver a concession speech instead, and trying to make sense of it all in the Post (“They didn’t want real change. They didn’t want Steve change.”) @rebelmayor is coping, but barely.
- Margaret Atwood continues to be the best.
- Recently, on Google Maps, Wellesley Street suddenly became Lourdes Lane. It’s still like that now.
- If you wanted to go as Diamond Rings or Damian Abraham for Halloween, AUX (and sometimes Torontoist contributor Ashley Carter) has you covered: they created Halloween masks of seven of “your favourite pop cultural heroes.”
- You wanted it, Toronto: footage of last weekend’s Zombie Walk set to “If I Only Had A Brain.”
- And here’s what Rob Ford looked like in high school.
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