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Extra, Extra: Apples, Honey, Heritage, and House-Buying
Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- Video of the week: Rob Ford does Rosh Hashanah.
- Read of the week: Navneet Alang, writing in the Toronto Standard, with some very valuable insights into Toronto’s downtown vs. suburbs rhetoric, and the way it intersects with multiculturalism.
- Heritage Toronto gives out awards every year which “celebrate outstanding contributions by individuals and community organizations, as well as industry professionals and associations, in promoting and conserving Toronto’s history and heritage landmarks.” The list of nominees was released yesterday, and it is full of nifty books, media projects, and restorations.
- Good interactive maps are clicky, procrastinatory fun. Here’s one for the real estate fiends among you, showing changes in property value in neighbourhoods across Toronto. Handy if you’re thinking of buying, or just nosy about people’s houses.