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Extra, Extra: Cheap Beer, and Rob Ford’s Better Half
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Photo of the beer section in an Etobicoke Beer Store, by AshtonPal, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
- Provincial Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak said today that he wouldn’t rule out bringing back “buck-a-beer” twenty-four packs if he becomes premier after October’s election. Yes: vote PC and your mouth will never again be dry. This is what they mean by “trickle-down economics.”
- It was a hipstery Dundas West night like any other, until, suddenly, Rob Ford appeared in the 7-Eleven, with his wife, by the ice cream freezer.
- On a related topic: Rob Ford’s wife, Renata, has been the focus of minor scrutiny lately, ever since Toronto Life stoked speculation with a nicely written but inconclusive article about her habitual spotlight avoidance. On Saturday, a rare photo of the mystery woman surfaced. Who is she? What does she do? Who cuts her hair? We may never know.
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