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The Honeymoon Bridge over Niagara River, which collapsed on this day in 1938. Photo courtesy of the City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 9040.
- The CBC Digital Archives has a nifty feature called On This Day, which we just rediscovered. Today’s installment: the collapse of the Honeymoon Bridge on January 27, 1938.
- 360 The Restaurant, revolving in the CN Tower, is no longer the world’s highest eatery: Burj Khalifa’s At.mosphere, in Dubai, opened this week and has claimed the venerable title. There is already a waiting list.
- In dense but interesting reads, the Toronto Workforce Innovation Group has a new study out on changes affecting Toronto’s workforce and areas of economic activity. The unsurprising outcome: good for knowledge workers, scary for everyone else. [PDF]
- Commenters on the Friends of the Argonauts message board aren’t so sure Rob Ford is a friend of theirs. A thread started by ArgoRavi, who posted a link to a January 20 Toronto Sun story about Doug and Rob Ford’s wish to bring an NFL team to Toronto, elicited 65 replies in a three-day period, expressing various degrees of antipathy towards the idea and the men behind it.
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