Extra, Extra: Your Buildings Are Too Little and Your News Is Too True

By Hamutal Dotan

Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.

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• That up there is the intersection of King and Spadina. Apparently, what it is crying out for is a thirty-nine storey condo tower.
• Every year, some cantankerous cautious library patrons complain about the offences they find among the books and other materials available for loaning out. Here is how the library deals with them.
• Writing is hard. Finding the Words is a new anthology by Canadian writers which details some of these difficulties, and early reviews are very promising.
• Today, contributor Laurence Lui made this discovery: “Neat. There was a plan in 1915 for elevated rapid transit along TO’s waterfront!”
• Hey guess what? The CRTC wants to do something dumb. Specifically, the dumb thing whereby they loosen the regulations on how much of the news needs to be… true. If you have objections, here is the mandatory petition.

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