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Extra, Extra: Touring Toronto, Ejected Election
Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel came to Toronto for TIFF, and brought a camera crew with him. We (where “we” means a collection of local tourism boards) paid him $450,000, and poof we became massively popular with travellers. Not quite? Well, at least we got this nifty video out of it.
- Another popular figure in our midst: graphic novelist Seth. He’s just been announced as the winner of the $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize, awarded in conjunction with the International Festival of Authors. “I recall, back in the early 90s talking to fellow cartoonist Chester Brown about the future of our medium and our hopes of its literary acceptance,” Seth commented via press release when the award was announced. “We weren’t optimistic. Frankly, the idea of winning something like this was not within the realm of possibilities at that time so it goes without saying, that I am deeply honoured.”
- Presented without commentary: on October 6, the CBC will be broadcasting the opening game of the NHL season instead of the Ontario election results. (Election coverage will be on the CBC News Network.)