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Extra, Extra: Fondly Remembering PCC Streetcars and PVC Fashions
- Who doesn’t like a little time travel on a Friday afternoon? This video’s images and sounds transport us to a simpler time in Toronto’s transit history, when traffic was less snarled and PCC streetcars roamed free, accompanied by a snappy soundtrack. Sigh.
- Toronto Animal Services has won an award for its success with pet adoptions. The Summit for Urban Animal Strategies gave them the 2011 Summit for Urban Strategies Award in the “Animal Homing” category, recognizing their innovation in and commitment to matching pets and owners. Through community programs and partnerships with other organizations, TAS increased the number of cat and dog adoptions by 37 per cent between 2005 and 2010.
- What are Torontonians hauling with their cargo bikes? The answers, in the most recent dandyhorse magazine and in this blog post, are both surprising and adorable: vintage chairs, dogs, children, a theatre box office, trees, computers, and lots and lots of fresh produce.
- “Goth is immortal,” writes Liisa Ladouceur in her oral history of Toronto’s goth scene for The Grid. Immortal or not, the city’s goth clubs and bars have become a lot “shinier,” she says, and continue to evolve and shift, migrating farther and farther from the downtown core.
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