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Extra Extra: Baby Names, Catholic Schools, and a Two-Million-Year-Old Bieber
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
The old incinerator and waste transfer station on Symes Road. Photo by plastic handgun from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
- Frances Nunziata, heritage saviour! Earlier this week, the councillor (Ward 11, York South-Weston) directed City staff to investigate whether the former waste transfer station on Symes Road—originally an Art Deco-era incinerator—should be protected from potential demolition.
- Toronto Graffiti is a book all about, well, Toronto graffiti. You can flip through the book online, and there’s a launch party on January 28.
- Into babies, or names? Over at OpenFile they have a cool mapping project, showing the distribution of baby names by postal code.
- In the slow news day files, the Toronto Star considers what Justin Bieber would have looked like as a Homo habilis.
- And finally, Ed Keenan over at Eye asks: why is it that we’re still funding Catholic schools again?
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