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Extra, Extra: Standing Up for Raw Milk, Saying Goodbye to Elephants
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- Torontoist is a website all about Toronto. The above video isn’t, technically. But it matters, so we’re choosing not to care.
- Trouble brewing between a local community that loves its park and City officials? Yes, again—this time at Withrow Park, where area residents who spent all summer working on a community firepit—in conjunction with the City—have just been told they can keep that firepit, but that its stone foundation needs to be dismantled after every single use.
- Grist checks in with Durham-region farmer and raw milk advocate Michael Schmidt, who began a hunger strike a few weeks ago to protest his conviction for selling unpasteurized milk.
- What do Occupy Toronto protesters and Rob Ford supporters have in common? Some interesting thoughts on populist movements and the psychology thereof from Ed Keenan at the Grid.
- Yesterday, city council voted to send the three Toronto Zoo elephants to a sanctuary rather than another zoo. Back in the spring, when the Zoo board first decided it would close the elephant program, we took a look back the beginnings of that program, and how the young elephants arrived here in the first place.
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