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Extra, Extra: A Golden Anniversary and a Breakup
Every weekday's end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
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- Happy 50th birthday, Don Valley Parkway. Thanks for being such a great “controlled-access six-lane municipal expressway in Toronto,” according to your article on Wikipedia, which is the featured article on the site’s main page today, where millions of potential visitors can see it.
- Apparently local chocolate manufacturer SOMA makes some of its goods with cacao beans harvested from a 600-year-old, 630-hectare orchard they bought in Bolivia. Does this mean it’s no longer cool to binge on M&Ms? Wait, was it ever? But they’re so good.
- Grant van Gameren, co-owner of the popular Dundas West restaurant The Black Hoof is no longer working there, according to co-owner Jen Agg, who told Toronto Life that the split was amicable. Plans for a reservation-only restaurant in the former Hoof Café location, she added, are on hold.
- Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 27, Toronto Centre-Rosedale) has some strong words for the mayor’s brother, who recently was instrumental in preventing Toronto from expressing interest in holding the 2020 Summer Olympics.