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Extra, Extra: Meteorology, Anarchy, and Bob Marley
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- Meteorologists are predicting that a giant snowstorm will cover Toronto with twenty to thirty centimetres of snow between tonight and Wednesday morning. The City sent out a press release this morning reminding residents that “expressways and main roads” are first in line for plowing. Lesser roads are screwed until approximately fourteen hours after the storm is over. And so here’s a public service announcement from Torontoist: if you were thinking about going anywhere or doing anything between tonight and Thursday, don’t. Unless what you were thinking about doing was snowshoeing, in which case, come shovel our sidewalk.
- Boing Boing calls our attention to the fact that Toronto’s own Anarchist Free University is going to be starting its spring term pretty soon. Students and instructors apparently use a wiki to build syllabi by consensus. Their Mentat training course, inspired by Frank Herbert’s (only good) sci-fi novel, Dune, sounds nerdy beyond belief. Awesome!
- “NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Rob Ford, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim February 6, 2011 as “Bob Marley Day” and join with citizens of Toronto to salute a great musician and humanitarian.” (No, he’s not the first mayor to do it.)
- Last Friday, we published a rundown of the troubles facing Ryerson-based (but not Ryerson-run) campus-community radio station CKLN—troubles that even now are spilling out into the comments section on that post. Anyone interested in some deep background on the years of infighting that led to the station having its broadcast license revoked should look to the archives of the Ryerson Eyeopener, where the whole saga is recorded in molecular detail.
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