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Extra, Extra: Timelapse Toronto, Decoding CodeBlue, and Real Estate Woes
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- Once in a while, someone shoots Toronto for a period of time, then speeds things up and sets it all to music. Yes, we are timelapse addicts, and the one above earns its place in the pantheon of the pretty.
- It was the biggest moment in civic activism in Toronto since Rob Ford took office: the quick and ultimately successful fight to save plans for developing the Port Lands. City Hall blogger David Hains takes a look at the grassroots group that helped make it happen: CodeBlueTO.
- Over at the Toronto Standard, a refreshing take on Toronto design, discussions of which are all too often of the “why do we suck?” variety: architecture Toronto consistently gets right.
- Calvin Trillin, in this week’s New Yorker, pays a visit to Toronto—and specifically to Bathurst Street, where he looks at the cash-for-gold business and its attendant intrigue. (Abstract for non-subscribers; full text for subscribers.)
- It’s election day! If you haven’t yet, go vote! Then come home and watch the results along with us: we’ll be liveblogging starting at 8:45 p.m.
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