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Extra, Extra: Drive Through Toronto, Plough Through Invoices
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- In its Think Again podcasts, TVO remixes content from its Public Archive to create new stories. The most recent installment honours this Monday’s Simcoe Day and features former Toronto mayor John Sewell and late journalist and writer Scott Symons touring the city and interpreting its neighbourhoods.
- The marketing team at Chapters/Indigo know an opportunity when they see it. Their new promotion: show your library card for 30 per cent off in-store purchases of Margaret Atwood books. If you don’t have a card, they suggest signing up. And that part we can get behind.
- City spending is the talk of the town, and while everyone’s been focused on KPMG’s proposed cuts to city services and programs, much smaller budgets are revealed in this report that details city councillors’ and the mayor’s office expenses for the first half of 2011. What, exactly, are they spending cash on? Click on “details” to the right of any name on the list, and dig right in.
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