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Extra, Extra: Historical Shots, Middle Class Drops, and Google Flops
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
Yonge Street, looking north from King Street, in ~1890. Photo from the Toronto Public Library’s Special Collections’ Flickr.
- You know what’s great? The Toronto Public Library Special Collections’ Flickr, in which there are sets of photos depicting, say, the construction of the Bloor Street Viaduct. Pictured above: Yonge Street, between Queen and King, circa 1890.
- You know what’s less great? Ever-worsening income disparity. The University of Toronto study that showed that Toronto was losing its middle class fast—the one we led today’s Newsstand with—is generating a lot of good discussion, but the most powerful proof of the problem are in these Globe maps.
- All we want for Christmas are these Toronto coasters and these Toronto posters.
- Not quite, Google AdSense. Not quite.
- Not that you couldn’t already unlock your phone for cheaper, but once your contract’s up (or if you’ve recently paid the full “un-subsidized/no term cost” for the phone), Rogers will now take $50 from you and do it themselves.
- And beautiful minds will pleased to know there’s a “Aesthetic Room for Rent” on St. Clair West.
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