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Extra, Extra: Roncy, Plaid, and Racism
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Some creative use of a pile of rubble by anonymous pranksters during Roncesvalles Avenue’s road restructuring project, which is now behind schedule. Photo by frigante from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
- Construction on Roncesvalles Avenue is over, but only temporarily. The massive road reconfiguration project taking place there will cease for the winter, undoubtedly to the relief of long-suffering residents and business owners (and just in time for Christmas), but will resume in spring 2011, according to a notice issued earlier this month by the City [PDF]. The project was originally scheduled to be completed in November.
- This site has the latest on that pink bike Curbside Cycle wants to donate to Don “I Heartily Dislike Bike-Riding Pinkos” Cherry. Curbside ran an online poll to decide how the bike should be painted, and “plaid” won, meaning Don Cherry’s bike will probably end up resembling the wardrobes of the very downtown twenty- and thirty-somethings he insulted. Ah, sweet justice.
- Mike Layton’s first motion as city councillor for Ward 19 will be a formal request for an apology from Maclean’s magazine over that article they published about how Canadian universities might be “too Asian,” say the multicultural sensitivity watchdogs at the Sun. Now how long will it be before someone calls for an apology over image number two in this Sun editorial cartoon gallery? (Direct link.)
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