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Extra, Extra: Universities Too Asian, Diableros Too Broken, and Tree Too Short
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- “‘Too Asian’?”, an instantly controversial Maclean’s feature about the representation (and overrepresentation, and underrepresentation) of Asian students on university campuses, disappeared from the mag’s website last night, then reappeared this morning. There was apparently no funny business: a Maclean’s spokesperson told us last night that they assume “it’s a technical issue because we were having difficulties” on Wednesday, and the story was also published in the latest print edition. People still aren’t very happy about it, though.
- The latest Eye cover feature is a smart portrait of the businesses inside a generic-but-not-boring suburban strip mall, the one at 4800 Sheppard Avenue East.
- OpenFile’s surprisingly effective map of Toronto’s war dead got a nod in David Miller’s Remembrance Day speech today; a larger version, just released by Patrick Cain, is here.
- Bad news: “The Diableros are done.”
- Wellesley Street’s name has been changed back from Lourdes Lane on Google Maps, after a harrowing few weeks. We are gonna be okay.
- City Hall’s Christmas tree is much much smaller this year, a result of Nathan Phillips Square construction.
- And good luck.
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