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Extra, Extra: Windy Days, Sleepy Students, and Dissed Documentaries
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
A boat that broke loose in the wind near Toronto Sailing & Canoe Club. Photo by Ken Greig.
- It is windy. Very very windy. With gusts of up to 95 km/h and a wind warning in effect for most of the day, Toronto’s seen some power outages, flying debris, and at least one unmoored boat.
- Didn’t snag tickets for tonight’s Hot Docs opening films? An alternative: Cod Host celebrates flicks that were rejected by Hot Docs with a screening tonight at Ryerson.
- If you like awesome things (and really, who doesn’t?), there is a whole book dedicated to the subject. Two, in fact. Toronto writer Neil Pasricha’s The Book of (Even More) Awesome—the sequel to his bestselling debut, The Book of Awesome—goes on sale at bookstores today.
- Torontonians are rallying to try to save the cyclist-pedestrian bridge that—until the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee voted to kill it this week—was planned for Fort York. A Facebook page, petition, and blog are now all online.
- In happier urban appreciation news, Jane’s Walk—named after urban theorist Jane Jacobs—is next weekend. Spacing chatted with Jane’s Walk founder Jane Farrow to learn more about the event. (We’ll have some suggested Jane’s Walk itineraries for you early next week, so keep an eye out.)
- They aren’t actually being slackers: turns out teenagers are biologically prone to sleeping longer and later than adults. And as a Toronto high school is finding out, grades go up when the students sleep in.
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