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Extra, Extra: Loving and Hating on Toronto
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- One week ago today: a bike lane made of Lego popped up at Dupont and Lansdowne. Today, Urban Repair Squad posted a short video showing how it got built.
- Must-read of the day: this month’s Walrus cover story, “How Toronto Lost Its Groove.” It’s a thoroughly researched and excellent primer on the perils and pitfalls the city has faced, and which—due to myriad political and cultural reasons—plague us still.
- Rebuttal of the day: A.V. Club editor (and former Torontoist staff writer) John Semley takes on Toronto Life‘s recent story about leaving this city for New York and shows Toronto some love, making a compelling case for why life here (even with all those perils and pitfalls) is something to embrace and celebrate.
- Didn’t find that convincing? At least there’s this: we have a particularly clever city flag!
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