Extra, Extra: An Inbound Market, Southbound Pachyderms, and a Northbound Snail

By Meg Campbell

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

Photo by André Distel from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

• It’s already an area that local residents head to for fresh produce, but now Kensington Market’s BIA is floating the idea of setting up a farmers’ market in Kensington’s central greenspace, Bellevue Square. Of course, the market’s established produce vendors might have something to say about that. The BIA’s coordinator, Yvonne Bambrick, says the next step in the process is eliciting feedback from local residents and merchants.
• The Toronto Zoo is currently considering whether it should retire its elephants or upgrade their enclosure. But, if you ask former TV host and animal rights activist Bob Barker, no matter how much that renovated home for the elephants costs, the price is wrong. He is coming to Toronto on April 15 to meet with the zoo’s board of management and city councillors—and maybe the mayor—to ask them to send their three elephants to warmer climes.
• Queen Street mainstay and comic collectors’ wonderland Silver Snail Comics is changing hands and next year will move out of the spot it’s called home for nearly 30 years. With a partner, current manager George Zotti is buying the shop; he says he’s looking north to the bookish Annex for the Snail’s next location.
• Urban Toronto posted photos today showing the progress being made on the construction of the Spadina subway extension. The shots feature work underway on a few future stations, as well as the always photogenic Lovat Tunnel Boring Machine—which, if you ask us, is anything but boring.

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