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Extra, Extra: Revisiting the Ex, Rebating Tuition, Reviewing the Grid
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- Meet Festival Plaza, currently a gleam in the eye of the Exhibition Place Board of Governers. At a recent meeting they voted to develop a detailed plan for revitalizing part of Exhibition Place’s grounds. The idea is to take the land south of BMO field, currently a giant parking lot, and make it much friendlier and able to accomodate a wide variety of events (while retaining the same number of parking spots). The plans also call for building a bridge between the Ex and Ontario Place. And the cost? Actually not overwhelming, at $11 million or so.
- Congratulations, Ontario post-secondary school students. The provincial government is making good on its campaign promise, and will start rebating 30% of tuition for students whose family income is under $160,000. Students on OSAP should see the rebate applied automatically; for others, the province is unveiling a website next month to process applications.
- Over at the Atlantic Cities blog, a look at why major infrastructure projects tend to so often involve cost overruns, with a special eye on what this will mean for the plans to build an Eglinton LRT.
- Back in April, Toronto got a new publication: the Grid, a successor to Eye Magazine. Has Toronto’s newest weekly found its way in the months since? Not necessarily, according to a feature in the latest issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism, just posted online.
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