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Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- “You Should Have Stayed Home” is a documentary airing tonight on CBC (see video preview above), and one person who appears in it is also developing a play with the same title. In an interview with Praxis Theatre’s Michael Wheeler, Tommy Taylor discusses the play, the documentary, and his experiences during and after the G20 protests. Of the controversial title, Taylor says: “I called it that because that is what most people said to me afterward.The documentary explores what is wrong with that statement.”
- Can a city’s design encourage or hinder its residents’ expressions of democracy? This is the question discussed by two recent articles in Fast Company and the New Yorker, compared and contrasted in this post.
- The Toronto Awesome Foundation awarded its first prize last night to Stephanie Avery for her “Connect the T-Dots” idea. The project—in which numbered dots would be placed on the rooftops of Toronto buildings to turn the city into a connect-the-dots puzzle—beat out 250 other proposals to win the thousand-dollar grant.
- Transplanted Torontonians from far-flung Ontario hometowns, rejoice! Porter Airlines will begin flying into Windsor and Sault Ste. Marie this spring. The airline also announced it will double its service to Sudbury at the end of April.
- This weekend—all weekend—the subway will be shut down between Bloor and Union stations. A suggested weekend read for those waiting for buses or streetcars out in the cold: this column by Christopher Hume about Toronto’s outdated reliance on the car and too-slow transit expansion.
- And when you’re finished reading that, you’ll need a laugh. Luckily, Jonathan Goldsbie obtained a copy of Rob Ford’s talking points. Read them here, in all their short-sighted, sound bite-obsessed glory.
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